Organisations does not advertise their failures. organisations always talk of best practice not best failure.One of the main reasons were organisational mentoring system fail is improper mentoring pairing, . In order to blindly benchmark certain practices I have seen organisation introduce mentoring scheme in the morning and wound up in the evening.
Many organisations has introduced Mentoring system in its sincere attempt to minimize the learning curve for the new entrants. Many a mentoring pairs are formed without proper home work by the HR department. If the mentoring pairs (mentor and men tee)are not assessed for matching , the improper mentoring pair works like a virus in the system and this leads to the collapse of the mentoring system.
A leading manufacturing organisation uses DISC (Dominant ,Influence, Steady, Compliance) psychological test to match the mentoring pair (before its formation and formal training)DISC is the four quadrant behavioral model based on the work of William Moulton Marston PhD (1893–1947) to examine the behavior of individuals in their environment or within a specific situation (otherwise known as environment). It therefore focuses on the styles and preferences of such behavior.According to this school There are two types of behavior 1)Task fcoused behaviour 2) Relationship Focused behavior. I generally use the following clipping in my mentoring training Programme, to drive home this points.
This is clipping from Hindi Move "Munnabahi MBBS " a scene were Hari prasad Sharam (Sunill dutt) a relationship focused person looks for relationship. and Dr Asthana (Booman Irani) looks at the task focus.
Affter seeing the clipping Could you please tell me who can mentor whom ? who can become mentor to whom? Can Dr Asthan mentor Hari prasad or vice versa?
