Updated! Establishing a Mentoring Program in Your Firm – Best Practices

GBA has released an updated version of its widely used resource, Best Practices for Establishing a Mentoring Program in Your Firm, offering fresh insights and expanded guidance. This comprehensive document is essential reading for firm leaders, HR professionals, and mentors seeking to enhance employee development, retention, and leadership succession in today’s competitive and inclusive geoprofessional workplace.

This Best Practices resource defines mentoring and identifies its many benefits for geoprofessional firms, mentors, and protégés. Additionally, the guide:
• discusses types of mentoring programs;
• provides a program overview;
• addresses the five basic program phases;
• offers guidance on program leadership and leadership levels, and how these vary based on firm size;
• speaks to an array of program issues, introduced as questions;
• advises about keeping the program current;
• and identifies resources.

Originally written in 2009 for GBA (then known as ASFE) by Kim Morrison—a former Board member and long-time contributor who now serves as COO of GBA member ATC Williams—the publication was rebranded under the GBA logo in 2022 and updated this year by the Inclusion Advancement Committee.