(Greenwood Village, Colorado) – Triple Creek (www.3creek.com), leading experts in e-mentoring and enterprise mentoring systems, just published research they conducted on the emerging practice of group mentoring.  Focused on early adopters of this process within their patent-pending Open Mentoring® system, results show that: 

• 90% of Open Mentoring® participants were satisfied with the group mentoring experience.
• 93% said that their group's topic was relevant to their role in the organization.
• 96% reported that they could apply the information gained from the group mentoring experience directly to their role in the organization. 
• 85% agreed that the group mentoring environment was a safe learning environment. 
• 95% would recommend the group mentoring approach to others.

"These findings are significant because they show that group mentoring makes a big impact on participants, and the knowledge they gain goes directly back to the organization through individuals' on-the-job implementation of the skills, tips and processes they learned from their learning peers and advisors," says Randy Emelo, President and CEO of Triple Creek. 

**EVENT NOTE**
Triple Creek will be offering a free 60-minute webinar on their research on July 28 and August 5.  Sign up today at: http://www.3creek.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=296&Itemid=189

In addition to the powerful results above, Triple Creek found no statistically significant difference between responses from groups meeting virtually or face-to-face. 

As Emelo puts it, "People are used to having virtual relationships and interactions today.  They are comfortable connecting with people at a distance and have no compunction about getting advice or information from people they've never met in person."

This reality lends itself to a work environment where employees look for knowledge and information from anyone they can connect with.  "In fact, younger employees expect to be able to connect with coworkers in this way and are pushing organizations to offer venues for knowledge sharing that meet this need," says Emelo.

Triple Creek's group mentoring research is the latest in a string of research projects conducted by the company, all of which focus on the impact e-mentoring is making on the world today.

The full group mentoring report can be found on Triple Creek's website at:
http://www.3creek.com/research/Group-Mentoring-Research.pdf

Additional commentary can be heard in a podcast interview with Emelo and lead researcher Angie Stevens, available online at:
http://www.3creek.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=330&Itemid=198

About Triple Creek
Triple Creek is the makers of the award-winning enterprise mentoring system, Open Mentoring®.  Using Web 2.0 technology, Open Mentoring® rolls one-to-one, group, and situational mentoring into one program for seamless knowledge sharing that can transcend location, vocation, and generation.  It offers a way for people to engage in intentional learning relationships that will spread knowledge and connect colleagues throughout the organization, all while lessening administrative burdens and costs related to running mentoring programs. Triple Creek currently brings web-based mentoring and support to more than 100 market-leading organizations with users in 56 countries.

Winner of the 2008 ASTD Excellence in Practice Citation with CDW and the 2007 ASTD Excellence in Practice Citation with Rockwell Collins

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