Beyond the Myths and Magic of Mentoring: How to Facilitate an Effective Mentoring Process, New and Revised Edition

Chapter Thirteen

Evaluating Mentoring Process Effectiveness

In Part Two of this book, you have been reading about strategies to make a facilitated mentoring process work in your organization. Knowing whether you are getting what you want from these strategies means having some process for tracking and analyzing the results. In Chapter Seven, you examined several techniques for determining organizational readiness for a facilitated mentoring process. Some of those same strategies yield information about the kind of results you want to be able to look at and assess with an evaluation. For example, you may wish to determine the impact of the mentoring experience on the rate of promotion of the participants, on their skill acquisition, or on the ...