This website aims to be used as a training and development tool for mentors. Mentors are meant to provide help and guidance to those who are less knowledgeable then they are. However, to deliver this successfully a mentor needs to know how to effectively communicate their knowledge with others.
Succession planning is important because it keeps the knowledge of the inner workings of a role within a business even after a person has left. This is because the person who has left has passed this information down to another who is training to eventually be that persons replacement. It is a healthy essential to the workplace to have people identified who will be trained to step up when the time comes and take over a position from another. People change jobs for all matters of reasons and sometimes there is no warning, therefore having someone who has been trained and will be ready to immediately step in and takeover is crucial to keeping a business together.
Those who have a succession plan are employees identified by the company and specifically groomed to follow a particular career path. Their learning and training revolves around them developing to be ready for when the time comes to be able to step up and take over once their predecessor chooses or has to leave. To help them in this process the employee or mentee needs a mentor to guide them to their best potential. Within a company the mentor is normally appointed to the employee in regards to compatibility of learning from someone who is experienced in the role, although this does not mean that the mentor is a good mentor and hence the reason for this website. Mentors need learning to be good at mentoring and therefore good at guiding succession planning.
Succession planning is important because it keeps the knowledge of the inner workings of a role within a business even after a person has left. This is because the person who has left has passed this information down to another who is training to eventually be that persons replacement. It is a healthy essential to the workplace to have people identified who will be trained to step up when the time comes and take over a position from another. People change jobs for all matters of reasons and sometimes there is no warning, therefore having someone who has been trained and will be ready to immediately step in and takeover is crucial to keeping a business together.
Those who have a succession plan are employees identified by the company and specifically groomed to follow a particular career path. Their learning and training revolves around them developing to be ready for when the time comes to be able to step up and take over once their predecessor chooses or has to leave. To help them in this process the employee or mentee needs a mentor to guide them to their best potential. Within a company the mentor is normally appointed to the employee in regards to compatibility of learning from someone who is experienced in the role, although this does not mean that the mentor is a good mentor and hence the reason for this website. Mentors need learning to be good at mentoring and therefore good at guiding succession planning.