Chronus Corporation, a leading provider of software for talent and career development, recently released a new update to its software, Chronus Mentor, which helps organizations start, manage, and measure mentoring programs. Engagement Plans is a new feature that guides participants through the mentoring process to realize program goals, improving the return on investment (ROI) of a mentoring program.

"Chronus Mentor software has always provided guidance through the mentoring process," explained Praerit Garg, Chief Product Officer of Chronus. "Now, the new Engagement Plan feature connects goal-setting, tasks and resources all into one simple workflow. This makes it easier for administrators and participants to define and work through a mentoring program toward a successful result. We are thrilled with the early feedback on this feature set from our customer base."

The new Engagement Plan feature offers:

  • Program format flexibility - Administrators can define the level of structure of the mentoring program, from very lightweight to highly structured program formats
  • Intuitiveness - The online environment is simplified to make it easy and engaging for administrators and participants to follow
  • Enhanced goal feature - For mentoring participants to define and track progress
  • Resource integration - For attaching documents, web links and tasks to activities

  • Templates - Included templates make creating an engagement plan fast and easy

Customer Reaction

"Seeing the whole program in a timeline format makes it easy to visualize. The ease of editing and ability to link documents to tasks or email is also helpful," said Eric Simpson, Ph.D., Director of Leadership and Employee Development for BBVA Compass.

The new update went live in the cloud-based software on January 20, 2014. Existing customers can expect assistance with migration from the Client Services team at Chronus. New implementations of the software will include this update starting on that date.

About Chronus Mentor

Chronus Mentor is award-winning software to manage mentoring programs. The software drives participant engagement and simplifies program administration to create a productive, long-lasting learning experience. This cloud-based, configurable solution is used worldwide by corporations, government entities, academic institutions and associations. Complete details and subscription plans for Chronus Mentor software can be viewed at http://chronus.com/software/chronus-mentor.

About Chronus Corporation

Chronus is a leading provider of software to manage training and development programs for enterprise-scale organizations. Leveraging mentoring, coaching, and other guided learning approaches, Chronus software empowers a variety of programs including employee career development, leadership training, student mentoring, and others.

Chronus cloud-based solutions are easy to start and easy to manage, saving organizations time and effort while improving learning and development program effectiveness. Chronus' solutions, including Chronus Mentor, Chronus Coach, and Chronus Spark, are used by more than 500,000 professionals worldwide at institutions including PNC Bank, Staples, University of Phoenix, and the American Diabetes Association.

Discover more about Chronus at www.chronus.com or follow Chronus on Twitter @Chronus_Inc. Blog articles on talent development topics including mentoring can be found on the Chronus website at http://chronus.com/blog.

Chronus Corporation
Michelle Manson, 425-269-9035
Director, Marketing Communications
michelle.manson@chronus.com