Learning & Development Training Needs Assessment

Focus Group Discussion Guide

Project Name: Peer Coach/Mentor Needs Assessment
Date:
Focus Group Audience: ERS Peer Mentors
Discussion Leader:
Note Taker 1:
Note Taker 2:

1. What is the purpose of mentoring job? From your perspective, what are the areas of
accountability and the results of being a mentor?

2. What are the predominant ways you measure a new employees readiness to move to
the next step?

3. To be an effective mentor; what special skills and knowledge are called for?

4. What skills or knowledge were missing when you first took this position?

5. How did you learn those skills?

6. What causes people to struggle or fail in this position?

7. What is the best way a new person in this position can learn all of this?

8. What would help you to perform at a higher level? [These answers may be related to
external factors like work-life balance, etc.]