Mentoring: Gold Mine or Minefield?
Mentoring - it sounds like a good idea – enrolling experienced managers to help develop more junior employees – but is it? What business problem does it solve? What does a successful program deliver? How do you get REAL executive sponsorship and what are the potential administrative burdens?
Attend this workshop and learn from seasoned consultants and executives with real world experience. Determine if a mentoring program is an appropriate investment for your organization and gain access to tools on how to design, develop buy in, implement and manage a mentorship program in your company.
Date: Thursday, September 1st
Time: 8:30 am to 12:00 pm (8:00 am for sign-in and networking)
Location: Solazyme, 225 Gateway Blvd., South San Francisco
*Free gift for participants! (more information below)
Registration is Open. Click here for directions.
Workshop overview:
Ron Sacchi, program leader and facilitator, will begin the workshop by setting the stage for a lively discussion around the following topics:
•ROI--Assessing Business and/or Developmental need; how to measure success
•The organization and/or structure of a program
•The matching process, criteria for mentor selection, challenges and frameworks that worked
•Mentee selection, challenges, and frameworks that worked
After the break, Ron will moderate a panel discussion featuring internal and external consultants that have been instrumental in designing, developing and implementing mentorship programs in the high tech and life science industries.
Panelists: (Bio’s below)
Helen Gracon, external consultant, and Katy Dickinson, Director at Huawei Technologies, bring varied experience architecting mentoring programs, including Sun Microsystems and Genentech
Johanna Antone, PhD scientist and former R&D manager, co-designed an external mentorship program called MindPeeps through Right Management after participating in an internal program supported by Dupont
Inverlieth Fruci, Director of HR, Gilead, participated on a mentoring design team at Gilead and brings more than a decade's experience in HR in the biotech industry.
Panel discussion will include these questions/topics:
- What was the defining need for the mentoring program? And how was the program measured against that need?
- How did you establish your mentoring pool? Did you have any program criteria you used to limit mentors from the program?
- Did you have a mentee selection process, and if so, what was that? What were the biggest challenges that mentees faced?
- How was the pairing process done? Were the criteria set? if so, how was that criteria agreed upon?
Attend this workshop and you will:
- Share and Learn best practices and for setting up a mentorship program within your company
- Find out what mentorship program leaders from big and small companies have learned through their experience in the field
- Dialogue with colleagues about the issues they are facing in designing, implementing and managing a mentorship program
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of being a mentor or mentee
- Hear more about how the BOLD mentorship program and how to take advantage for yourself!
Agenda:
8:00 – 8:30am - Registration/Networking (doors open at 8:00am)
8:30 – 8:45 – Introduction and logistics
8:45 – 9:30 – Topic Overview
9:30 - 10:30 - Small group breakout sessions on key topics
10:30 - 10:45am – Break
10:45 - 11:50 – Panel discussion - Panelists with experience from: Sun Micro, Intel, Gilead, Chiron, Right Management and other companies
11:50 - 12:00 – Close
Who should attend:
- Any HR, OD, or Talent Management professional
- Anyone starting or evaluating their corporate mentorship program
- Mentors or Mentees who would like to understand how to make their partner pairing work better
Registration: To Register online, click here
This is an open workshop; all are welcome to participate.
Early Bird Registration: (by Mon. Aug. 15th at 6:00 pm)
Members: $50 online
Non-Members: $75 online
Pre-Registration: (by Tues. Aug. 30th at 6:00 pm)
Members: $60 online
Non-Members: $90 online
Registration at the Door: (on Sept. 1st at 8:00 am)
Members: $75 by check at the door
Non-Members: $110 by check at the door
A continental breakfast will be served.
Free gift: Participants will receive a free sample of Solazyme's skin serum, Algenist. This clinically proven product skin care product is now selling in stores like Sephora and QVC.
This program approved for 3.0 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.
Speakers:
Workshop Facilitator: Ron Sacchi
A former Operations Manager, Ron Sacchi brings decades of leadership and management experience to the organizational development arena. An energetic thought-leader with a track record of success in all areas of Human Capital development, he has managed and consulted managers in start-ups, joint-ventures, factories and data farms as well as corporate business development. A recipient of the Intel Achievement award for quality improvement, Mr.Sacchi has designed, developed and delivered many organizational interventions for businesses of every size. Because of his business acumen and creative approaches to change, he is respected in the HR community specifically for the ability to direct, motivate, influence and inspire leaders to improve performance. Holding an MBA from Saint Mary’s College, Mr. Sacchi is also licensed in various management, leadership and psychological profiling tools. Besides executive coaching and consulting to small and mid-size businesses, he has been requested to speak at conferences for ASTD, ODN, ISPI, SHRM, The American Management Association, and the International Society for Health and Productivity to rave reviews. His book, Design/ Build Your Business, was based on his experiences as the director of an internal business incubator at Intel and provides a blueprint for creating a scalable “any size business”. Ron specializes in group dynamics and behaviorism, and has consulted and coached managers for companies both large and small. In his free time, Mr. Sacchi also serves on the Board of Directors for The Northern California Chapter of the National Football Foundation and participates in community work with the Tri-Valley University of California Alumni Association.
Panelists:
Inverleith Fruci has been a Director of Human Resources at Gilead Sciences in Foster City, California since August 2007. In her role as a HR Business Partner she has supported R&D and SG&A functions which include Regulatory, Development, Commercial, Legal, Corporate Quality, Public Affairs and Medical Affairs. Prior to Gilead, Ms. Fruci held positions with increasing responsibility at Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, formerly Chiron Corporation for almost 15 years. In 2009 while at Gilead, Inverleith participated in the design, development and delivery of a global mentoring program which is still in place and growing. A graduate of California State University Hayward (now East Bay), Ms Fruci has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, certification in Birkman and PDI 360. Inverleith lives with her family in Lafayette CA . In her spare time, she enjoys baking for fun and utilizing her HR experiences in non-profit environments.
Johanna Anton, PhD: Johanna has a professional background as a research and development manager with interdisciplinary scientific expertise and industrial business experience. Her specialty areas include identifying talent and building teams that consistently produce above and beyond expectations. Johanna has delivered seminars and workshops on effective professional networking, coaching, and mentoring at mid-sized as well as Fortune 100 companies. Johanna has received awards for her volunteer work to help disadvantaged women enter the workforce; for educational outreach in science; for her efforts to lead organizations in challenging business environments; and for promoting work life balance for employees. She has led workshops, spoken on panels, and delivered presentations at national professional meetings. She has published and presented technical work in peer reviewed journals and in professional texts and has received recognition for her presentation of scientific results to both technical and non-technical audiences. The quote from Ghandi, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world" summarizes Johanna's approach to her work. Johanna holds a B.S. from Rhodes College and a PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi in Polymer Science and Engineering where she was a Patricia Roberts Harris fellow.
Katy Dickinson is a Director at Huawei Technologies. She is also the Mentoring Process Architect for the US Department of State’s TechWomen mentoring program for technical women from the Middle East and North Africa. Before Huawei, she was Sun Microsystems’ Chief Technologist’s Organization’s Director of Business Process Architecture where she created and managed the world-wide Engineering mentoring program for ten years. Katy’s specialty is acting as an effective change agent who resolves persistent and complex organizational problems. Katy worked for Sun Microsystems 1984-2010 in Engineering, Legal, Marketing, Operations, Quality, Standards, Strategy, and Sun Labs. She served as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt for the CTO and Sun Labs, 2002-2010. During 1992-2004, Katy Dickinson was a lecturer and reviewer for the University of California at Berkeley’s Engineering-110 class called “Venture Design: The Start-up Company.”
Helen Gracon: As a consultant to industry, Helen recently designed a Customer Connect program for the R&D engineers at VMware to have a customer experience. She also consulted with Genentech on their mentoring program. Helen Gracon was a Mentoring Program Manager, Trainer, and a Consultant for Sun Microsystems from1996 to 2009. She managed the Mentoring at Sun world-wide program which included the New Vice Presidents’ mentoring program for Sun Learning Services. Helen graduated with a BS from Pennsylvania State University in Biology and holds a Masters Degree in Counseling from the University of Pittsburgh. She is a certified career counselor. Helen has also been involved with two published mentoring case studies. The first, Sun Mentoring: 1996-2009, was co-authored by Helen with Katy Dickinson and Tanya Jankot. A second case study highlighting Helen’s work at Sun was published by Gartner in 2006: Workforce Analytics at Sun by James Holincheck.
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HR Certification Institute Credit
This program, has been approved for 3.0 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.
The use of this seal is not an endorsement by the HR Certification Institute of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met the HR Certification Institute’s criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.
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