Mentoring

We actively encourage mentoring within Pearson and there are several structured programmes in place around the world. Some are to mix people within a particular business and location, while others have been set up to introduce people within the same department or function across different regions and businesses. We have also set up some “upwards” mentoring relationships, so that more senior colleagues are mentored on a particular topic - such as digital technology - by someone who has less experience in general, but more experience in a particular field.

Each mentoring pair is carefully selected and we ask both parties to sign up for one year. We check in with them after three months and at the end of twelve months, we review the benefits for the participants and for the business. We continue to find that mentors gain as much from the experience as their ‘mentees’.