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Many successful corporations, including Microsoft, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Southwest Airlines, and State Farm Insurance, have
realized great value in corporate mentoring programs to meet such challenges as addressing diversity, preparing current and future leaders, retaining high performers, managing collective knowledge, and reducing the cost of learning.

ASTD reports that over 75% of executives surveyed target mentoring as one of the key factors in their business successes.
Business Finance Magazine reports that 77% of companies credited mentoring with increasing employee retention and performance.
As a nationally recognized corporate learning and performance company, MediaPro—in partnership with The Mentoring Group—offers mentoring tools that can make your mentoring program more effective and more likely to achieve business results.

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	Manage corporate knowledge

	Whether it’s stemming a “brain drain,” emulating best practices, or reducing error and rework, mentoring relationships are one of the best tools to help manage valuable knowledge within your organization. Microsoft has embraced mentoring as part of a major strategy to keep valuable information from going out the door.



	Improve job performance

	Managers and human resource professionals know there is a treasure trove of knowledge and skills within their employees and have tried multiple approaches to unlock those treasures to improve job performance. Mentoring relationships have proven to be one of the most valuable and cost-effective ways to empower employees to help each other perform at higher levels. Mick Mortlock, co-founder of Intel University, states that “expert mentors can double an employee’s success.”



	Reduce learning time and cost

	As valuable as formal training and development is to employees, mentoring can show results at a fraction of the cost. Nordstrom, for example, positions mentoring as “instant learning that is integrated into daily work.”



	Address diversity

	Mentoring is one of the most effective methods an organization can use to achieve diversity goals. Research by Harvard Business School has shown that minority workers who advance the farthest share a common characteristic: a strong network of mentoring relationships. Catalyst reports that 44% of CEOs list mentoring as one of the three most effective strategies to enhance women’s advancement to the senior level.



	Retain high performers

	Within an organization, mentors can be very valuable in keeping someone on the right career track or professional learning pathway. A good mentor provides opportunities to gain needed skills and expertise, encouragement in fulfilling professional goals, help in creating a development plan, and guidance in career advancement. Business Finance Magazine reports that 77% of the companies they surveyed credited mentoring with increasing their rate of retention and the performance of their employees.



	Prepare for succession

	A corporate mentoring program can prepare mid-level managers and executives to move successfully into senior-level positions by creating a means to transfer the knowledge, practical experience, and grassroots know-how to the right people. ASTD reports that 75% of executives point to mentoring as being critical to their rise to the senior level.