New data from Triple Creek Associates details mentoring champions' opinions on a range of topics from employee engagement, to knowledge transfer, to need for community.

(Greenwood Village, Colorado) During Triple Creek Associates' 2008 Open Mentoring® Summit in Denver, attendees were polled on a variety of  topics related to their work. Answers from these 49 mentoring leaders, representing 28 organizations and governmental agencies, revealed an inside look at what organizations of all kinds are dealing with today.

• 98% said that knowledge transfer is of increasing importance.
• 77% said their organization considers employee engagement to be a key measure.
• 95% said there is an escalating need for self-development within their organization.
• 79% said employees have expressed an increased need for community.

As administrators and champions of web-based mentoring programs, these participants offered insight into what real-world professionals are facing.  "This type of interaction and communication between Triple Creek and the mentoring community helps us to better understand the needs of our clients and allows us to more effectively address their issues with our products and services," said Randy Emelo, President and CEO of Triple Creek Associates.

Summit participants confirmed that for organizations to expand the benefits of mentoring, the practice needs to be integrated into the entire employee development process. "This reality allowed us to share our Mentoring Ecology Model™ with attendees, providing them with a tool and tangible results that they could then take back to their organizations and apply on the job," said Emelo.

A podcast on the Mentoring Ecology Model™ is also available.

About Triple Creek Associates
Triple Creek Associates helps organizations build cultures of learning and development through web-based mentoring programs. Their award-winning flagship product, Open Mentoring®, is a fully supported, comprehensive Software as a Service (SaaS) solution that allows organizations to auto-match, manage and measure mentoring relationships built around customized learning projects. Triple Creek currently brings web-based mentoring and support to more than 100 market-leading organizations with users in 56 countries.

Winner of the 2007 ASTD Excellence in Practice Citation with Rockwell Collins

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