Enabling Mentoring

Mentoring is partnering with a more experienced colleague to enhance knowledge, skills, and self-awareness in a certain area.

The mentor supports the employee by giving advice based on their own experiences or other structured ways to transfer knowledge.

Through Career Development Planning, you can formalize your mentoring process by using the program wizard to identify details, determine mentor and mentee groups, and set timelines for each individual program. Mentoring supports the creation and administration of mentoring programs, with automated recommendations and matching.

Most organizations have mentoring programs but no integrated way to administer them. Without an automated process, hours of work are required to match mentors and mentees by hand or import data and configure niche solutions. Setting up mentoring programs is easy with SAP Success Factors Mentoring, and the Mentoring solution is integrated with the entire SAP SuccessFactors suite.

There are two ways to activate Mentoring:

1. Turn Mentoring on via the Upgrade Center in the Admin Center.
2. Enable the Mentoring feature in Provisioning.

   Although mentoring can be enabled via a provisioning switch in Company Settings, the best practice is to utilize the Upgrade Center when possible.

The following lessons provide the actions necessary to activate Mentoring in your instance and give you the ability as an Administrator to modify the configuration options.

Keep in mind that Mentoring requires Role-Based Permissions, and different roles will often have different permissions. For example, an Administrator role with all permissions will have broader access than an Employee role with more restrictive access.

To use the Upgrade Center, complete the following steps:

1. Log into your instance.
2. Navigate to the Admin Center.
3. Select Upgrade Center.
4. Select Mentoring.
5. Choose Upgrade Now.

If your upgrade is successful, you should see the message illustrated in the figure.

The next steps after the Upgrade Center are as follows:

1. Log back into your instance.
2. Navigate to the Admin Center.
3. Select the Upgrade Center and then View recently completed upgrades.
4. Navigate to Mentoring and choose View Next Steps.