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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.
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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