Together Mentoring Reviews

Best mentorship software

Pros:

Great customer service, very responsible. They actually implemented a change we requested within 2 weeks.

Cons:

I wish I could get mentored by people outside my company as well.

Best Customer Service Team I Have Ever Worked With

Comments: Using Together has completely streamlined our Mentoring program process. We used to match all global participants manually. With Together, it has cut down the admin burden for our team and we are able to focus on ensuring participants get the most out of the program. Our participants have also found their session templates to be incredibly helpful in planning sessions with their mentors. The structure provided is invaluable.

Pros:

One of the best things about the team at Together is that they are constantly improving the platform. Everytime I turn around there is a new feature and the administrator view is constantly improving. One of the newer features that has been very impactful for our use is the monitoring health function. I am able to go in and see what mentoring relationships are not progressing as they should and can step in and intervene if needed. The other thing I like about working with Together is their team. I have worked with many different vendors in the L&D space and their Customer Success team is by far the most responsive and attentive. They always respond promptly and were amazing during the implementation phase and always available to jump on a call and walk through any questions I had. Since we have launch the program, they continue to check in and see how the program is going.

Cons:

At times there are certain areas in the admin view where I would like to click through for further details but I have to click out and go to look at reporting instead. The good news is that the team at Together is very receptive to feedback and constantly looking for ways to improve their product, so I have no concerns that this will be addressed in upcoming releases.

it's easy to use, but not so engaging

Pros:

easy to understand, easy to use and very user friendly

Cons:

I believe it misses content, for example for a mentorship program I wish to see more related content, guidelines and templates in my panel

Best Mentoring Software for External Program!

Pros:

Our membership society had a huge need to launch a structured mentoring program, but we do not have enough staff to support it. After MUCH research, I pitched Together Mentoring to our Board of Trustees, and they approved. The whole process of working with the Together team was amazing. They customized the program to our needs (medical mentoring), set up tricky match algorithms based on our member categories, and helped us launch it properly. They also are continually making updates to the system and the reporting features are tremendously helpful for leadership. If there are ever any technical issues, they are very responsive to my emails and get the issues resolved quickly. Best yet, this software basically runs itself. The matching, session progress, goal setting, feedback, etc. all happens with little to no staff support. Since its launch, our medical student memberships have increased by 110%! Feedback we receive formally and informally is always high for mentees and mentors, as well. So glad we went with Together for this external facing program!

Cons:

None! It's met every expectation we've had.

Together Platform - Mentoring Program

Pros:

Software is easy to use. I like that I can go back and review previous sessions. Booking sessions was easy as well, I like how obvious it was showing the calendars. I liked getting notifications when my mentor added something to the notes. How it integrates with our email system/calendars is great too. Overall, this software is easy to use, straightforward and helped with managing the mentorship I'm part of. Having all the notes, scheduling, everything in one spot is awesome.

Cons:

Always getting an email on when I typed notes in was annoying and not super useful for me. It was useful for my mentor to get the notes but when I'm the one typing them it doesn't make much sense to get an email notification that I typed notes. Also, not super keen on the multiple scheduling sessions system that is in place. It would be nice to be able to click "multiple sessions" but also able pick different days/times for each one, instead of only being able to choose frequency. As our sessions were on different days/weeks/times of the day, I had to book each individually instead of planning 5 at the same time. Something that would be a nice to have is more "how-to's" when first starting. It took a number of sessions and planning sessions before I realized you could have the system set up a teams/web ex/etc meeting instead of me having to send a separate invite for that. It was not clear when I first started using the software that that was possible. One last nice to have would be to be able to click a button and "move agenda to next session". There were times where I planned the agenda but we ended up talking about something else and I still wanted to touch on those planned items. Copy/pasting is easy enough, but being able to move the agenda to next session would be a cool feature.

Dynamic and Powerful Software

Comments: Working with Together has been a great experience and I would highly recommend it. We've watched our program grow and can now make decisions based on data, from the reporting and health monitoring aspects of the software. The users appreciate the platform to track their relationships and have one place to keep dates, details, session agendas, notes and feedback.

Pros:

We moved from a series of excel sheets to the Together Platform, and after implementation, our program has tripled in size. The ease of use, robust reporting and dynamic updates - offering new functions and capabilities, I am so grateful we decided to purchase this software. The ease of enabling users to schedule directly in the platform, and admin functions to easily see feedback and monitor the pairings supports our program participants to stay on track and engaged. It also allows the admin to support relationships instead of spending hours with admin-related tasks.

Cons:

As we had a pre-existing program, the onboarding process for past users, or those already in the program was challenging, although this isn't exactly a software issue.

Together makes linking mentees and mentors a breeze.

Comments: Overall, we have been very satisfied at every stage of our Mentor program development and execution with Together. I can't speak highly enough about this experience.

Pros:

Together made the process of onboarding mentors and mentees easy. The content that is available to organizations saves us both time and money when it came to designing our mentoring program. What was most helpful is the software's ability to match those with similar backgrounds, interests, and industries. This seamless matching made for sessions that were more engaging, more focused, and with measurable outcomes. All this is coupled with excellent customer service. Together's ability to quickly respond to our inquiries and troubleshoot issues really made our experience to date seamless and trouble-free.

Cons:

To date, I can't report any problems or concerns regarding the software.

A really great product

Pros:

Software was easy to use and customer support was excellent

Cons:

Nothing yet to note

“The best user experience of all the mentoring software”

Comments: By far the best user experience of all the mentoring software we reviewed, which is important for user adoption. The customer support has also been exceptional, from onboarding to ongoing maintenance, their support has not only been highly responsive but even proactive in make suggestions.

Pros:

Ease-of-use, customer support, customizability, and breadth of capabilities.

Cons:

There’s always additional functionality that could be added, but they are very good at listening to their customers for feedback.

Mentor and Mentoring Review

Comments: It's facilitated better mentorship relationships as I'm able to prepare all the different learnings for the mentee and have tangible outcomes that are tracked through the tool.

Pros:

I really enjoyed the ease of use of the product in setting up a cadence of meetings and keeping track of goals.

Cons:

Nothing in particular. The tool was great to use!

Mentoring Review

Pros:

I like how the prompts given help the user to create a report to follow for the mentoring lesson and we can choose to add or omit prompts during sessions. The way to reflect after the mentoring session helped to rate how successful the session was to the overall prompt

Cons:

I wish that it had a better way to integrate into our calendar system. I found some minor issues with time zones becoming automated when creating the invites.

Together

Comments: My experience has been wonderful! One of the best systems I have implemented. I truly felt like I had a partner throughout the entire experience.

Pros:

Together really checked all of our boxes. It allowed for one central location for mentorship within the organization. It has beautiful and easy integrations with Teams, Zoom etc. The system is user-friendly allows for easy training so mentors and mentees can focus on what matters, their relationship.

Cons:

We haven't yet encountered too many cons of the system. Up to this point, my only feedback would be to allow for custom timeframes for activation email reminders. I would have liked to be able to set exactly when invited participants would receive notificaitons.

Great all around program

Comments: I have enjoyed learning different aspects of the jobs.

Pros:

Everything about this program I have enjoyed.

Cons:

There is nothing I would change. I have enjoyed all of it.

Amazing match with my mentor

Pros:

The software was really quick to learn and it's really user-friendly! I loved the resources that guided my mentor and me in our meetings!

Cons:

Nothing comes to mind! Smooth experience since the beginning!

Review

Comments: very good, alot of work but worht it in the end

Pros:

Getting out of my comfort zone, it was easy to use and learn.

Cons:

the large commitment required to complete it

Great Platform to Use

Comments: The Together platform has made mentoring and collaboration a lot easier as you have one place that you can go to find all documents and notes that you have made during conversations and you can go back and see the progress that has been made.

Pros:

Being able to schedule your meeting right in the software and also write notes to each mentor/mentee that everyone has access to in one place has been a fantastic tool to keep everyone on track.

Cons:

Nothing at this point, the platform has been very easy to use.

Frustrating as an admin, great as a user

Pros:

The automatic pairing between mentees and mentors

Cons:

Navigating the software ad an admin can be frustrating

Overall review of the application

Comments: It is a good tool

Pros:

It makes mentoring journey easy, it has reminders that enables scheduling of next meeting and keeps track of one's progress and tracking of agreed action points.

Cons:

It not very user friendly. I found it hard to navigate on the tab and struggled to access the page for scheduling next meeting

Excellent, intuitive software

Pros:

It's overall very easy to navigate and use. It's flexible as well; tasks like rescheduling are simple. It was easy to search profiles and filter by industry, interests, etc.

Cons:

The software is straightforward and clear to use, so I don't have any cons to list.

Kickass Mentorship Software

Pros:

Handles all of the logistics of running your mentoring program. High customizability. Killer customer service.

Cons:

Doesn't let an admin update user information on the fly without SQL updates.

Alternatives Considered: Google Sheets

Together Mentoring has been great

Pros:

It's easy - very straightforward and requires little to no effort to figure out. Helps mentors and mentees set and meet goals without having to re-invent the wheel.

Cons:

N/A - I think it's successful because I don't even notice it.

Good start

Comments: I haven't been using Together very long but it has been so easy and informative so far! They guide you through the process instead of forcing you through the process!

Pros:

This software makes it easy for an organization to build mentor/mentee relationships for their company. These relationships are what make people grow and grow within your company so your company is stronger. The program walks you through the steps of setting the meetings up and gives good advice on what to talk about. It's very thorough.

Cons:

The platform is relatively easy once you explore it a little bit. They give you a tutorial in the beginning but I still like to explore things.

Mentorship Program Review

Comments: a overall awesome experience

Pros:

A nice way to track the mentorship program we have at AAA

Cons:

sometimes a little hard to navigate and look back at past sessions or maybe i just need to spend more time getting to know the system

Great tool for tracking

Comments: Together has helped me mentor my mentees in a much more thoughtful way that gives structure and guidance to each.

Pros:

The ability to track every part of the cycle.

Cons:

Not as easy to make scheduling changes with calendar integration.

Kathryne Lewis

Pros:

I like being able to see my mentors profile and track the information and the details of the call agenda.

Cons:

I don't like the scheduling feature, like getting started to get the agenda!