The Organisational Mentoring Program is designed to support and encourage Not For Profit (NFP) management officers and staff through skills transfer and coaching from Westpac staff.
Westpac are understandably proud of their upcoming 200 year anniversary, and are keen to share their knowledge of business sustainability with close to fifty NFPs, Indigenous organisations and social enterprises throughout Australia that they have already included in this program.
Westpac hopes that the general skill development that their program offers will have a positive influence on the wider community.
Our Governor General, Quentin Bryce, was at the launch of The Organisational Mentoring Program and she applauded the bank's move to help develop the leadership, HR processes and work culture of the organisations they have taken under their wing.
Leading on from Westpac's successful pilot of The Organisational Mentoring Program in 2008 with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) they have further developed their innovative skills transfer initiatives.
This mentoring model is seen as an opportunity for Westpac employees to develop leadership and coaching practices while helping to influence improvement and business sustainability through an exchange of management tools and methods for ongoing business improvement.
Not only do the mentors offer skill development in financial sectors, but they coach in better workplace practices, engaging employee commitment and reducing the sometimes high levels of employee turnover.
We hope that this scheme broadens even further, allowing many more Not For Profit groups to benefit from the intitiative.
Well done Westpac.
