Mentorship program
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Due to our commitment to ensuring a good integration of our new colleagues into the company's culture and business domains, hiring at Leapwise is a pre-planned and structured process. We make sure that the period from the arrival of the last person in a team to the hiring of a new individual is six months, allowing each new person enough attention and time to adapt to their new role.
That’s also why, upon joining the team, each new individual is assigned a dedicated mentor whom they can always turn to for advice and assistance.
The first few months is a time when new colleagues have to process a lot of new information at the same time. Mentors are there to help guide them and keep them from getting overwhelmed.
While the whole team is always there for any questions they may have, having a point person they can go to helps ease their transition period and integration into our way of working.
However, mentorship doesn’t have an expiration date. You can always learn new skills or sharpen existing ones, and we firmly believe one of the best ways to do so is learning from your colleagues.
That’s why mentorship in Leapwise is evaluated on a yearly basis. It helps people identify new skill sets they may need or want, and based on that get matched with a mentor that can help them achieve their goals.
To track an individual’s progress, Leapwise has a structured review process, where Juniors are reviewed every month, while Mids and Seniors require it twice a year.
Mentorship also presents an opportunity for mentors themselves. By teaching others and transferring their skills, they work on solidifying their own knowledge. Working with new people helps expose mentors to new perspectives and ideas, challenging their established routines.
It’s also a path to growing their leadership skills.
Knowledge transfer requires mentors to develop good communication skills, ones that help them translate complex concepts into simple terms, but also help nurture a culture of feedback.
Guiding a person through their development process requires mentors to adapt and emphasize with each person’s way of learning, helping them understand their approach to work and what they need in order to succeed.
