What Next? First Steps Towards Advancing Mentoring Within Your Business

...How the Indiana Mentoring Partnership Can Help

1. Decide What You Are Prepared To Do

Internally, Establish Your Own Vision and Readiness

Convene a conversation among your internal stakeholders regarding how your business will advance mentoring. Questions to answer include what your vision and desired outcomes are, how large your effort might initially be, and as well as what human and financial resources are you willing to commit, initially?

2. Pick up the Phone – Establish Communication

Get the Right Partners on Board

Based on how large you want your initial effort to be, decide which partners need to be brought on board. You may just partner with one signature mentoring program, or you may go bigger and involve a mix of partners who bring one or more of the following: knowledge of the needs of local youth, expertise in mentoring and what local services are available, resources to invest (financial, human or otherwise), and/ or community leadership.

3. Establish the Common Ground

With Your Partners, Clarify Your Shared Vision & Readiness

Convene a partners dialogue that will begin to build the partnership around the goal of expanding quality mentoring for your target youth. This dialogue will lay the foundation for a joint planning process that could be fairly quick, or more extensive, depending on the envisioned scope of the partnership.

The Indiana Mentoring Partnership can help your business achieve greater student results with mentoring through hands-on technical assistance, resources and momentum from a new statewide mentoring database and promotional campaign. To learn more about how the Partnership can help you advance mentoring in your business, please contact us at 1-800-343-7060.