A new year provides the perfect opportunity for facility managers to affirm their intent to implement a mentoring plan for their staff. The concept of mentoring often is seen as a “shuttering moment” for managers, even in the perfect work environment where staff are physically interacting with each other and their bosses daily. What should they do when remote working has become the standard and staff rarely see their bosses, let alone each other except in the virtual word? The shuttering moment may turn into outright panic.
While mentoring cannot fix all your problems, it can significantly mitigate them and help strengthen the overall distance work environment, but only if a manager is willing to devote the time and effort to the mentoring process.
In this article, learn how to create a staff mentoring plan and what skills facility managers need as a mentor.
