From the course: Developing a Mentoring Program
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How to design a framework and needs assessment for your mentoring program
From the course: Developing a Mentoring Program
How to design a framework and needs assessment for your mentoring program
- Congratulations for tuning into this video as I know it is extremely tempting to just jump in and start designing your mentoring program. Often we are under a lot of pressure to just get it done. However, if you skip the needs assessment step and go right into mentoring program design, it's like building a house with no foundation. Let's dig in and cover five questions you need to ask as a framework for your mentoring program. The first question is: what is the best way to gather data to understand what is happening? You need to perform a needs assessment and dig into why you need a mentoring program. An excellent book that you can review for the specifics of needs assessment is Active Training by Mel Silberman and Elaine Biech. In this book, you will find an excellent overview of nine needs assessment techniques. These nine techniques are: observation, questionnaires, key consultation, print media, interviews, group discussion, tests, and records/reports. I always recommend using…
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