Mentoring program overview

A mentoring program pairs mentees with mentors and schedules messages, check-ins and activities throughout their mentorship in Slack. You choose when matching runs and when each step is sent. Open Mentoring and select a program. Use Overview to see what needs attention, People to manage mentors and mentees, and Mentorships to manage pairs.

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Set up your program

Open Settings to configure:

• General: name, description, who can join, mentorship length and admin access.
• Profile questions: what mentors and mentees answer when they join.
• Matching: when matching runs, how it chooses mentors and whether you review matches.
• Track: the messages and activities each pair receives. Without an active track, nothing is sent to pairs.

You can invite people while the program is a draft. Finish setup and publish the program’s track, then select Start. A live track is required to start the program.

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What needs you

The Needs you list on Overview shows outstanding tasks: The overview also flags track problems and shows when matching runs. Select Match now to run it immediately while the program is active.

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Program stats

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Pause, resume or archive a program

• Pause stops people joining themselves, invites and automatic matching. Admins can still add people and pair them manually. Current mentorships continue and still end on their dates. Select Resume to reopen the program.
• Archive makes the program read-only and hides it from Slack. Current mentorships run to their end dates; matches awaiting review don’t start. An archived program can’t be reopened.

Program admins can change settings and manage people. Viewers can see the program but can’t change it. Set access under Settings › General › Access.