Recommendations to others considering Chronus Mentoring:
The Chronus platform provides a great landscape to initiate, match and manage a mentorship program with great visibility. Once underway, it allows the mentors and mentees to document their goals and progress.
The first steps will be just to understand the Chronus platform, and I would say that building the program falls into categories
PREP
• Platform features and navigation
• Timeline and reach
• Consider the anticipated population - - do you think you will have a 1:1 ratio for mentees/mentors, there are default settings for mentor capacity.
• Questions - - the answers to the questioned posed to the population is the key driver in the match, so considered those. We also added an About me section and the data there helped with our matches.
• We chose a hybrid matching, where Chronus would suggest the % match, but as an admin, review the suggestions and we selected that final match. It was often what Chronus suggested; others were overridden based on other info provided.
MATCH
• There are views and ways to bulk match, and you can also queue up a match before you officially publish a match
• You also have to balance the requested mentors (if you are offering that) against what % match is that Chronus is suggesting
• You can review all before you publish and can download to excel
• There are a lot of Chronus driven communications that we selected, and we worked as a team on the wording and timing, and settings
• Not sure if this will impact you, but you may also want to consider location/time zones when matching
REVIEW
• Chronus does provide several views to see the status of enrollment, match, and tools to offer
• Once the matching is completed, you can get post-activity stats to assess your population’s engagement
• Your members can also use Chronus to review and chronicle their progress with their partners.
• We hosted pre-calls to explain the program and how the tool works and suggest check-in meetings periodically
There is a big responsibility in overseeing the matching because you want every match to be meaningful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.