Smart Mentoring

We insist on only using our mentoring solutions to drive your people strategies forward. Without a strategy, mentoring exits in a vacuum and suffers a slow and painful death, tainting an otherwise magnificent and powerful tool.

Every extraordinary manager wants people (including themselves) to be more effective in what they do today and ready for what they will do tomorrow: work effectiveness + job readiness. We use mentoring to drive these two essential goals. More specifically, we categorize all people strategies into 8 buckets and then we use mentoring to propel them forward:

• attracting and on-boarding people
• developing talent (ex: skill building, networking)
• identifying and developing leaders
• planning for the natural succession of people
• fostering diversity and inclusion
• strengthening cross-functional and cross-generational intelligence
• improving productivity and effectiveness
• amplifying enthusiasm, commitment, and morale

Mentor Connect™

LifeMoxie Mentor Connect™ is a flexible and powerful mentoring solution that allows companies to strategically connect employees for both formal and informal mentoring relationships and development opportunities. It combines powerful, web-based, enterprise software with a full curriculum of best practices and professional development opportunities to empower employees and ensure workforce success.

Mentor Connect significantly reduces costs while increasing productivity, performance and engagement across the organization by empowering a well-connected workforce and fostering a culture of knowledge sharing.

Benefits

For Senior Executives Increase workforce productivity and efficiency Enhance understanding of workforce issues and opportunities Drive corporate-wide employee initiatives Cultivate a knowledge sharing and learning culture Align and drive corporate goals

For Learning & Development Executives Easily manage an enterprise-wide mentoring program across unlimited number of employees Rapid implementation and strategic roll-out Easy to administer and track metrics Extensive best practices curriculum Decrease cost of solution development

For Participants Easily connect with mentors and mentees Learn mentoring skills Enable professional and career development Enable education, experiences, and exposure to ideas, people, and opportunities Obtain visibility and exposure as a leader and a contributor to company’s success

Customized to Drive Employee Initiatives

Customizing LifeMoxie Mentor Connect for strategy and branding, companies can now cost-effectively accelerate a variety of corporate-wide employee initiatives, such as:

• Recruiting
  
• On-boarding
  
• Cross-Functional Development
  
• Productivity
  
• Leadership Development
  
• Diversity and Inclusion
  
• Succession Planning
  
• Enthusiasm and Empowerment

Better Mentoring Experiences

Mentor Connect enables a rich and relevant mentoring experience as participants can:

• Easily search for and select mentors or mentees by choosing from a wide spectrum of attributes, skills, and interests.
  
• Accelerate learning for professional and career development.
  
• Rapidly learn best practices for engaging in successful mentoring through trainings and materials.
  
• Easily track and manage their mentoring connections, conversations, and trainings.
  
  

"Ann is the go-to professional for employee mentoring programs. Her approach is comprehensive, relevant and applicable to all workplace cultures. LifeMoxie! offers a strategic, well-thought out program for organizations interested in developing their employees and leaders to the fullest and Ann drives home the message with passion, clarity and an incredible synthesis of ideas and experience! The support and education that LifeMoxie! provides for their mentoring program is without competition."
—Wendy Willow Wark, Director, Employee Relations & Diversity, MTA Metro-North Railroad

Easy to Get Connected

Mentor Connect™ allows participants to search for a unique set of attributes beyond traditional demographic criteria and connect with relevant individuals based on skills, interests, languages, and life/work circumstances. There are five different ways to connect with others:

• Automatic Match
  
• Search for a Match
  
• Request a Match
  
• Match Me
  
• Recommend a Match

Supports a Family of Mentoring Programs

A family of mentoring programs connected by an enterprise-wide mentoring strategy will set your company apart. Mentor Connect™ easily and strategically supports a variety of multi-tiered mentoring programs targeted at specific groups of employees as part of an offshoot to your primary corporate-wide program. Sub-programs may include:

• MBA Mentoring Program
  
• High Potential Mentoring Program
  
• Officer Development Mentoring Program
  
• Preparing for Management Mentoring Program

Reduce Time and Costs, Eliminate Complexity

Offered as a hosted, 24x7, software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, Mentor Connect™ eliminates the need for complex purchase, installation, and setup of software. LifeMoxie provides full maintenance and support from our datacenter, eliminating the need for you to reserve IT staff for installation or maintenance. Participants only need Internet access to reach the secure, fire-walled site. LifeMoxie manages the customization, pilot, roll-out, trainings, and maintenance to ensure rapid, full-enterprise implementation and impact.

Analytics and Reporting

Customized monthly reports and analytics offer views on user participation and other key metrics to track and measure success. You can easily review statistics and key metrics relating to active mentoring relationships, demographics of participants, and employee trends.

Our Mentoring Clients

• Pacific Gas & Electric Company
  
• Kaiser Permanente
  
• Southern California Edison
  
• Hitachi Data Systems
  
• Pillsbury Winthrop
  
• Mid-Peninsula High School