Mentoring program

A mentoring program flips the usual direction of coaching: instead of a manager scheduling assessments, the mentee drives, booking time with a mentor and choosing the skills they want feedback on. Admire supports this directly, because a mentor is just another coaching relationship and a mentee can manage their own Meetings.

Set up the pairings

Connect each mentee to their mentor with a coaching relationship. A mentor doesn’t have to be the mentee’s manager: it can be any expert in the company who knows the skill best, which is exactly what makes mentoring valuable.

A mentor is a coaching relationship. It grants the mentor access to coach and assess, and surfaces the pairing on both dashboards.

Let mentees run their own sessions

A mentee can request and prepare their own session: they pick the mentor to assess them, choose the skills they want feedback on, and write the agenda. Admire marks it collaborative for them automatically, so they can keep editing it. Sharing also starts on, so they see the mentor’s notes and scores as they land; to wait for the finished assessment instead, they turn sharing off on Properties before creating it. The mentor then joins to coach and assess.

The Meeting planning form with a coachee and coach selected, a shared agenda, a scheduled date and time, and skills chosen for the session. — A mentee-prepared session: they choose the mentor, the skills they want feedback on, and the agenda, then the mentor joins to assess.

Mentee books the session. When they schedule a Meeting for themselves it is collaborative automatically, confirmed on the form by You manage this Meeting, and they pick the mentor as their coach.
Mentee picks the focus skills. They choose the skills they want feedback on, so the session targets exactly what they’re trying to grow.
Mentor joins to assess. The mentor coaches and records observations, the same as any Meeting. See Running a Meeting.

For the full picture of coachee-led sessions, see Collaborative Meetings.