Build a Culture of Mentoring

SLG’s Mentor Certification prepares seasoned leaders of character to walk alongside the people they mentor, using the holistic model we use within our own Fellows Program. That shared language and commitment to virtues equips them to mentor with distinction across your organization, with a structure, a curriculum, and a community that keeps it from fading once the launch enthusiasm wears off.

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Why Internal Mentor Programs Typically Fail

Most internal mentor programs are built on good intentions, but they rely on the few leaders trying to do the right thing without ever having been trained. There is no curriculum or set of principles shared between mentor and mentee, and no community of practice where mentors learn from each other. Programs launch, and then quietly stall within a year.

For your most experienced leaders, certification is also a way to apply decades of hard-won judgment to the rising leaders of tomorrow. Many tenured professionals are looking for a way to use their expertise in service of the next generation. Mentoring paves the way for giving back without having to start a new career. While anyone can call themselves a mentor, organizations with Certified Mentors build their future workforce thoughtfully.

Our Leadership Perspective

Our leadership perspective is grounded in four basic precepts that set the foundation for cultivating emotionally healthy leaders who serve their teams.

These are the same four precepts that anchor the Fellows Program and the Teams Program. Certified Mentors work from them too, which is what gives a mentoring conversation inside your organization the same foundation as one inside ours.

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  1. Leadership and followership are defined by one’s character.
  2. Character is shaped by a core set of timeless virtues.
  3. Service to others is not a style of leadership, but a learned behavior.
  4. Leadership and followership together create effective teams.

The Certification Includes

  • The same proven curriculum used in SLG’s own Mentor Certification, delivered to a cohort of your senior leaders
  • The SLG Mentors Training Notebook
  • Holistic Mentoring Training
  • A Mentor Sponsor
  • An Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i) Assessment
  • An EQ-i Coaching Session
  • EQ-i Mentor Training
  • A copy of The Virtue Proposition: Five Virtues That Will Transform Leadership, Team Performance, and You
  • Continuing education support, so no one has to change fields or careers to find new meaning in their work
  • The opportunity to give back and apply hard-won expertise to shape the next generation
Mentor and Fellow look over a blue program binder together on a couch during a mentoring conversation

What Certification Gives Your Mentors

Training in the SLG Mentor model

A holistic approach built on virtues and emotional intelligence.

A structured curriculum

So every Mentor in your organization is working from the same foundation.

Ongoing community

Connecting your Certified Mentors to each other and to SLG’s broader network of 120+ Mentors across the United States and internationally, all committed to developing the next generation of leaders.

A clear methodology

Your Mentors can apply it consistently across your organization.

Not the Same as Our Volunteer Mentor Network

This is different from SLG’s own external network of Certified Mentors, who volunteer their time to mentor SLG Fellows.

Mentor Certification for Organizations trains your people to mentor inside your organization, for your employees, using the same proven model. If you are an individual looking to volunteer as a Mentor with SLG, visit our Become a Mentor page.

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Investment

Pricing is structured per Mentor or per cohort, depending on how many leaders you are certifying at once. Contact us for a scoped proposal.

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Sometimes I forget how much life experience and wisdom from past fail-forwards that I have to share.

Kristi N., SLG Certified Mentor, Real Estate