Mentoring is partnering with a more experienced colleague to enhance knowledge, skills, and self-awareness in a certain area.
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.
A variety of program options exist to meet your organization's flexibility or structure level:
- Supervised: In supervised matching, a matching job will run based on your preference and configuration. The administrator can review and edit the matches. The program dates strictly follow the program process, for example, mentor sign-up and starts.
- Unsupervised: In an unsupervised matching, the system provides guidance but mentees make direct requests to mentors. The program dates are also more flexible in unsupervised programs, for example, mentor sign-ups can continue even after mentee sign-up starts.
- Open Enrollment:Open enrollment programs do not have strict dates, and are open to all or a subset of the company. Users can be mentors, mentees or both at the same time. This option allows you to keep mentoring programs open at all times and allow self-registration.
Once the program type is selected, mentoring admins have the option to define the mentoring program details (program name and description, owner, dates, and so on.), select the mentors and the mentees, define the criteria for the sign-up form, and review the summary.
Mentor and Mentee Signup
Users can select from the open enrollment programs, the programs they have been invited to, and those programs they are already participating in as a mentor or mentee using the Mentoring page. Users can also review their matches and their mentoring preferences.