The Intermountain Mentoring Program is available to support our current and future healthcare leaders. To grow our mentor pool and support our new Career Hub functionality, we’re inviting you—no matter your role—to sign up to become a mentor. This expands opportunities for more peer-to-peer and skills-based mentoring. Some of the benefits of mentoring may include personal fulfillment from giving back, increased recognition, development and growth of leadership skills, an enhanced connection to resources, and increased job fulfilment and engagement.
“I've worked at Intermountain Healthcare for more than twenty years in nearly every part of our business and as I reflect on my career, I can identify the people who helped me grow along the way,” says Heather Brace, chief people officer. “Mentorship—being a mentor as well as being a mentee—opens up the ability to pursue opportunities, tap into resources, and create a feedback loop that’s essential in anyone’s career journey and progression.”
You can sign up to become a mentor today:
- Caregivers in the Canyons and Desert regions can sign up in Workday using the tip sheet.
- Caregivers in the Peaks Region and other affiliated caregivers who aren’t in Workday can sign up using this form.
Tammy Ferney, RN, nurse manager of the mother/baby unit at St. George Regional Hospital, says she’s glad she signed up to be a mentor.
“My experience with the mentoring program has been so positive,” Tammy says. “I was assigned a lovely caregiver from one of our Las Vegas clinics and Wylene and I began by getting to know each other, our backgrounds, and her goals for the future. We’ve utilized resources provided by the mentoring program and have met weekly or bi-monthly to map out Wylene’s new career journey. Wylene has now enrolled at Utah Tech and will be starting her degree program very soon. She’s even utilizing funding through the PEAK program. She’s well on her way to achieving her goals and I’ll continue to mentor her through the process. This program has been very satisfying to me and increases my job satisfaction by helping others reach their potential. I’ve also gained a new friend and colleague.”
New to mentoring? Here are some tips to help you get started:
- Review Udemy’s course Be a Great Mentor: A Practical Guide to Mentorship.
- Check out the Mentor FAQs.
- Look at the Mentor Start Guide.
- You and your mentee can determine the parameters of your mentoring relationship, like the length of engagement, frequency of meetings, and other logistics.
- Don’t forget to discuss the opportunity with your leader before starting a mentorship. It’ll give you something to follow-up on during each quarterly Check-In conversation and you can use a mentoring relationship as a development item.
- Other resources are on the Mentoring@Intermountain webpage.
Intermountain cares about your career growth and development. To discover more development activities, resources, and unique career experiences, visit the Talent Management website.