Onsite Registration and Networking will begin at 8:00 am. Please arrive early to sign-in. This program will begin promptly at 8:30 am.
This program has been approved for 3.0 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.
Mission: Who we are: We are dedicated to developing HR professionals strategic capabilities to build, execute, and lead organizational effectiveness solutions that drive business success.
What we do: We create and foster an environment where our members can network, provide and receive mentorship, learn and share knowledge, best practices and resources to lead to the advancement and success of life science organizations.
Who we serve: Our target members are organizational learning and development professionals, HR business partner/generalists, and VP and/or HR department leaders in bay area life science companies.
*Life Sciences includes biotech, pharma, medical device, diagnostics and tools companies.
Mentoring- it sounds like a good idea – enrolling experienced managers to help develop more junior employees – but is it? What business problem does it solve? What does a successful program deliver? How do you get REAL executive sponsorship and what are the potential administrative burdens? Attend this workshop and learn from real world experiences. Determine if a mentoring program is an appropriate investment for your organization and if so gain access to tools on how to design, develop buy in, implement and manage a mentorship program in your company.
Workshop overview:
Facilitated small group discussions will engage participants in conversations about:
ROI--Business and/or Developmental need; how to measure success
Organization/structure of program
Matching process criteria, self-selection
Mentor selection, challenges and frameworks that worked
Mentee selection, challenges, and frameworks that worked
Panel discussion will include questions such as:
What was the defining need for your mentoring program? And how was the program measured against that need?
How did you establish your mentoring pool? Did you have any program criteria you used to limit mentors from the program?
Did you have a mentee selection process, and if so, what was that? What were the biggest challenges that mentees faced?
How was the pairing process done? Was criteria se? if so, how was that criteria agreed upon?
Attend this workshop and you will:
Share and Learn best practices and for setting up a mentorship program within your company
Find out what mentorship program leaders from big and small companies have learned through their experience in the field
Dialogue with colleagues about the issues they are facing in designing, implementing and managing a mentorship program
Understand the roles and responsibilities of being a mentor or mentee
Hear more about how the BOLD mentorship program and how to take advantage for yourself!
Agenda Draft
8:00 – 8:30am - Registration/Networking (doors open at 8:00am)
8:30 – 8:45 – Introduction and logistics
8:45 – 9:30 – Topic Overview
9:30 - 10:30 - Small group breakout sessions on key topics
10:30 - 10:45am – Break
10:45 - 11:50 – Panel discussion, including Q&A – Panelists: Sun Micro, Gilead, Small biotech
11:50 - 12:00 – Close
This program has been designed for:
Any HR, OD, or Talent Management professional
Anyone starting or evaluating their corporate mentorship program
Mentors or Mentees who would like to understand how to make their partner pairing work better
This program,ORG-PROGRAM-96238, has been approved for 3.0 (General ) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.