Individual Learning and Development

• Provides greater utility of knowledge transferred
• Tailored to the mentoring recipients – rather than broad and generic
• Has a JIT quality – and allows for immediate and continued application – helps with error reduction
• Information exchanged is industry and company specific – not available anywhere else
• Learning sessions are inter-woven into the daily routines of both parties – less down time as in traditional training
  
  
• Greater cost effectiveness than traditional training
  
  
• Less loss of information over time because of repetition and multiple passes
• Opportunity to apply learnings
•  Teaching staff are SME’s inside the company, even if in small areas
  
  
• Knowledge transferred is multi-dimensional:
  
  
• Covers discrete, technical, social, and cultural issues
• Provides opportunity for problem-solving w/o threat
  
  
• Continuously adding value to individuals in the workforce through developing their potential
  
  
  • Adds to the competency of employees
  • Can only add to the overall worth of the company