A recent EPCA research shows that mentorship and sponsorship are the most effective tools for developing high potentials, retaining the best employees and enabling diverse talents to succeed and climb the company career ladder.

Despite the advanced implementation of mentorship and sponsorship programmes by frontrunner companies, there is still room for more opportunities (and improvement) within the EPCA Community.

Thanks to the support of TTLT-represented companies, the EPCA’s Talents of Today, Leaders of Tomorrow (TTLT) Committee investigated common challenges - and explored the best practices - on the why, how and what of setting an effective mentorship and/or sponsorship programme.

Overview

Best practices from EPCA Member Companies
- REPSOL’s Mentoring Program
- DOW’s EMEAI Female Sponsorship Program
- STOLT-NIELSEN’s Mentorship Program

EPCA White Paper
- The benefits of Mentorship programs for mentors and mentees

Best practices from EPCA Member Companies

REPSOL’s Mentoring Program

Courtesy of Repsol

This program aims to accelerate the development of Leadership competencies behaviours in key groups for the company, deploying the methodology 100% remotely. In addition, it helps recognizing the company’s leaders as role models of transformation and promoting the company’s global vision and diversity.

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DOW’s EMEAI Female Sponsorship Program

Courtesy of DOW

The Female Sponsorship Program is a self-nomination development program for females in compensation grades 6-8, which purpose is to accelerate their readiness to grow in executive roles in DOW.

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STOLT-NIELSEN: Mentorship Program

Courtesy of Stolt-Nielsen

To drive rich career development experiences as part of an overall approach to learning; increasing retention rates, employee satisfaction, promotion readiness and strengthening the leadership pipeline.

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EPCA White Paper

Download here the EPCA White Paper on the why, how and what of mentorship programmes.