The New York Talent Development and Inclusion Committee, founded and chaired by Nancy Settergren (National Practice Leader of PSG), with support from Tom Morris, Regional Managing Director of GNY, recently hosted a “Speed Connection” mentoring event. Pearl Wong and Peter Webster, members of the Talent Development and Inclusion Committee and co-leaders of the GNY Mentoring Committee, developed the “Speed Connection” theme to bring mentors and mentees together in a fun, casual setting.
The event opened with three active Aon mentees sharing the benefits of their mentoring relationships. Then, mentors and mentees currently enrolled in the Momentum Through Mentoring (MTM) online tool participated in a “Speed Connection” exercise. During this exercise, mentees were given three minutes to interview potential mentors from various practice groups. The mentees were then charged to follow up with a potential mentor in pursuit of developing a mentoring relationship.
An advocate of mentoring, Pearl Wong said, “we realized the issue was people who wanted to have mentoring relationships were not connecting and this event allowed mentees to meet with potential mentors.”
For more information on Aon’s Momentum Through Mentoring (MTM) program, contact Aon_Mentoring@aon.com.
Looks like an excellent program! Thanks for posting this, I'm looking more into it now.
Posted by: Diversity Training | January 04, 2011 at 12:22 PM
SMU Cox's Executive Education department hosts the HR Roundtable just to address issues like these. With the Baby Boomers quickly retiring out of the job market, getting and retaining talented employees is going to be a critical mission for employers.
If you happen to be in the DFW area, information on the SMU HR Roundtable is available here - http://www.cox.smu.edu/web/hr-roundtable
Posted by: SMU Cox MBA | April 27, 2010 at 12:41 PM