About mentors

Mentors are employees that are assigned to oversee and support the development of other employees (mentees). In Learning and Development, a mentor must be designated as such by a learning manager, administrator, generalist, or manager. Employees do not have to be managers to be mentors.

Mentors can be assigned other employees as mentees. Mentors can themselves be mentees to another mentor.

A mentee can be assigned multiple mentors. One of the mentors must be designated as primary.

Note: All the mentors for a mentee can perform the same mentor tasks. The primary mentor does not have access to any more functionality than the other mentors. If an organization gives additional responsibilities to a primary mentor outside of Infor HR Talent, mentors who must refer to the primary mentor can view their mentees' other mentors and see which is primary.

Employees that are designated as mentors have access to a Mentor space, where they can perform these tasks:

  • Checklist-related tasks:

    • Mentors can monitor their mentees' checklists.

    • If any of their mentees' checklist components are awaiting validation and the components have defined mentors as validators, mentors can validate the component.

      Note: If a checklist component also requires mentors to have the same competency or skill they are asked to validate, mentors will only able to validate if they are themselves validated for the competency or skill.

    • If a checklist component is requiring the resource to complete an activity, mentors can register the resource for a session.

    • If mentors are configured to validate a checklist component, they also can waive the checklist component for their mentees. If the same skills are required to validate a checklist component, the same skills are also required to waive the checklist component.

    • Mentors can assign checklists to their mentees.

    • If a checklist is configured for mentors to complete it, mentors can also complete the checklist for their mentees after all the checklist components have been either completed or waived.

      • Skills, competencies, and learning skills, are completed when they are validated, acknowledged, or both validated and acknowledged, depending on the checklist component's configuration.

      • Activities are completed through the normal activity completion process.

      • Any of these components can be waived. Waived components will not prevent a checklist from being completed.

  • Other mentor tasks:

    • Mentors can assign activities and personal activities to their mentees. They can assign the activities as required or not required.

    • Mentors can view all their mentees' development and personal activities on their Development Tasks list and take the same actions on these activities as that of a manager.

      Note: The only action that mentors cannot take is to associate a mentee's activity with a goal. Mentors do not have access to their mentees' goals.