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Mentorship Participation
Percentage of employees in mentoring programs
How it’s computed
COUNT(mentees + mentors) / COUNT(all)
What the evidence shows
Evidence (effect sizes, priors, validity) is syncing from Principia.
What this metric can show you
Mentorship Participation can tell roughly 23 pre-built stories — each a designed scene the data either confirms or it doesn’t. Bring your numbers and the Story Finder runs every one of these shapes against them.
specific to performance & development
It's two companies, split by manager
leadership-quality · T1
Most are fine — a tail is struggling
engagement · T1
The system isn't differentiating
measurement-health · T1
You've quietly stopped promoting from within
development-mobility · T1
Your ratings are compressing
performance · T1
universal shapes — any single metric can take these
A few large values are doing the talking
any focus · T1
A one-time event, not a trend
any focus · T1
It doesn't track — the premise is false
any focus · T1
It's concentrated — one group stands apart
any focus · T1
Scenes are pre-built; your data is the toggle. Browse the full deck or watch one play end-to-end in The Quiet Exodus.
Run it on your data
This metric is computed in the People Analytics Toolbox on your own numbers. See pricing — posted, no quotes.
sources: toolbox:metrics-catalog
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“The guidance of a newer, younger employee by a manager is the stereotypical example because it most closely approximates the relationship of Mentor and Telemachus. But in its broadest usage, as captured by the Sixth Element, a mentor is anyone who, in the eyes of the employee,…”
— Twelve Elements Great Managingmatch 51%
“From Gallup Workplace Polls, based on interviews with 1,009 and 1,003 workers, aged 18 and older, conducted in February 2002 and April 2004, respectively. For results based on the total sample of workers, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error…”
— Twelve Elements Great Managingmatch 50%
“Most important for business, the discoveries demonstrate that if a company wants its employees to quickly assimilate “best practices,” there is no faster conduit to a protégé’s brain than watching a good role model in action. “Mirror neurons,” said Rizzolatti, “allow us to grasp…”
— Twelve Elements Great Managingmatch 48%
Resources: Twelve Elements Great Managing