Chronus

Avantages

Easy to navigate. Good on screen prompts. Easy to view layout.

Inconvénients

Nothing immediately that I can think of.

Avantages

The ability to be connected with my mentor professionally.

Inconvénients

I cannot really think of why I would dislike Chronus.

I found it to be reasonably reliable.

Avantages

The matching algorithm is great - lots of customization

Inconvénients

Everything else is terrible. The entire user interface was not user friendly, we were locked into a 3 year contract with small useless improvements on Chronus side of the user interface, none of our employees used the platform because it was so bad.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Chronus

Avantages

It's very clear and one need to like it for further learning.

Inconvénients

Since I am just eager to learn about it and looking forward to be more conversant with.

Avantages

User-Friendly Interface: The platform's intuitive design makes it easy for both mentors and mentees to navigate, reducing the learning curve. A clean and organized layout enhances the overall user experience.
Integrated Communication Tools:Built-in messaging, scheduling, and video conferencing features streamline communication and facilitate seamless interaction.

Inconvénients

Integration challenges :- Integrating Chronus with other existing systems (e.g., HR platforms, learning management systems) can sometimes be challenging

Avantages

I love the interactive features, connection plan, courses and feedback loop

Inconvénients

login and lack of AI tools to augment experience and make recommendations

Avantages

I like that it helps me to keep up with my progress in my mentorship and to set and accomplish goals I have. I am grateful for this resource provided by TMCF Novartis and their connection with Chronus.

Inconvénients

I cannot identify any issues I experienced when using Chronus.

Avantages

I like the way it can connect your schedule in Calendars, making it easier to set meetings that suit your schedule.

Inconvénients

From using the app and website so far, there has been no cons.

Avantages

Their progress and continued improvement to fix bugs.

Inconvénients

There were a few bugs that used to annoy me.

Avantages

easy to use, all in one place, comprehensive

Inconvénients

more tutorials of the tools; support for integrating calendars into a complex secure hospital health systems

Avantages

Easily navigable and little learning curve.

Inconvénients

I don't really have any complaints thus far, sometimes the program takes a little longer to load but I think that's mainly due to my personal computer.

Avantages

Ease of use. Easy to track progression. No difficult in logging into the system. The gooey interface is perfect.

Inconvénients

I actually have nothing negative to say. To improve for our needs, you may wish to add 1/4 hours too.

Avantages

Extremely friendly user interface. Mentoring plans and meeting arrangement are scheduled easily. Users have visibility across the board for available mentors, groups of peers and others whose skillset one would like to learn.

Inconvénients

Nothing that I dislike about Chronus at the moment.

Avantages

Simple to use it - easy to find info on the tool

Inconvénients

Nothing to complain about it. I really enjoyed it

Avantages

Pretty user friendly, not hard to navigate or look at.

Inconvénients

More convenient to schedule and make meetings and communicate outside of Chronus.

Avantages

Chronus is instrumental in helping our team manage 150 mentoring relationships. It's our primary tool for communicating with our mentors/mentees and helps us identify who is/is not engaged.

Inconvénients

We struggle with the calendar sync option. There are times we would like our mentors to be able to meet with more than one mentee at the same time - the calendar function does not allow this - which is frustrating.

Avantages

Good sync with multiple other applications, Easy for navigation, Simple and Self explanatory

Inconvénients

Can sync up with multiple other programs Including talent management.

Avantages

There were two things we were looking for in an online mentorship program…1) integration with our single sign-on (such that our members can use their member login and password) and 2) automated matching for mentors and mentee. The Chronus system fulfills these requirements very well. It is critical that our mentorship program is a significant benefit of membership and that logging in should be simple and easy. We also have a complex membership consisting of trainees interested in many different areas, as well as members that are generalists and subspecialists, from a variety of practice settings and a variety of interests and experiences. The platform itself is very intuitive and the Chronus staff continues to be responsive to needs for assistance or training. They also present an amazing arsenal of online tools and resources that train our staff and educate our members on the varying capabilities of the system. The reporting functionality is robust and very easy to use. The pre-established reports are incredibly useful. The forums within the platform have helped us develop an online community of our mentorship program participants. This aspect of the program continues to reinforce mentorship activity, idea sharing, and ultimately adds to the member value. We have been utilizing Chronus for our online mentorship program since October of 2014. We continue to be impressed by their receptive updates to the product and how they truly listen to their customers.

Inconvénients

The only con we have with the platform is the inability to track those mentors/mentees that take the relationship outside of the program (e.g. don’t utilize the timeline tasks and/or messaging features). We can get some of this data by surveying our mentors/mentees; however, I’m not sure there is anything that can be done about this from the Chronus perspective. Another limitation we have found is that currently users are not able to switch between mentee and mentor roles on their own; it has to be done by the administrator.

Avantages

My team and I enjoy how customizable the tool is and how helpful Chronus's Customer Success Managers have been in making sure we succeed with the system.

Inconvénients

The software is a bit clunky. As an admin it can be difficult finding the right field/feature as there are several areas to look. Also, the matching algorithm seems a bit off.

Avantages

The software is customized for mentoring relationships and has a lot of functionality. There are many different tools you can add or subtract, depending on how you want your mentoring relationships to look for your users.

Inconvénients

It can be a little clunky and there are bugs that come up.

Avantages

We partnered with eMentorConnect to help create a circle mentoring program to meet the requests of a specific employee group that desired cross-divisional networking as well as specific knowledge and skill development. The eMentorconnect team was incredibly collaborative in helping us match the participants, design the content and implement the platform to ensure high participation. We are thrilled with the results! Engagement is high and speaks to a very thoughtfully designed program as well as platform features that are directly aligned to our goals. I highly recommend eMentorConnect.

Inconvénients

We partnered with eMentorConnect to help create a circle mentoring program to meet the requests of a specific employee group that desired cross-divisional networking as well as specific knowledge and skill development. The eMentorconnect team was incredibly collaborative in helping us match the participants, design the content and implement the platform to ensure high participation. We are thrilled with the results! Engagement is high and speaks to a very thoughtfully designed program as well as platform features that are directly aligned to our goals. I highly recommend eMentorConnect.

Avantages

Their customer service and tech support are excellent! Any time I log a ticket, the response time is always quick. Most software vendors' tech support service is very slow, and you wait and wait for a response. I've never had a problem in getting a response from Chronus. I can honestly say that in my 30+ years of working with various software and hardware vendors, this is the best tech support service I have ever received.

The matching of mentors/mentees is very easy!

Inconvénients

It's a challenge to get end users to use the portal. They'd rather just schedule their meetings in Outlook and then use Teams to document their relationship.

Alternatives envisagées 

Pourquoi passer à Chronus

Avantages

The platform is user friendly and the analytics are really powerful. The support received from the Customer Success team is very impressive. Our customer success rep is very responsive, detail oriented and a true expert on the software and capabilities.

Inconvénients

A few challenges with integration to other products but likely more on our end than Chronus.

Avantages

I appreciate the features such as customizable profiles, mentoring connection plan, survey and reporting capability. I love the user interface and it is very easy to navigate.

Inconvénients

I would like to see more ways to integrate this into software programs we use such as MS Outlook calendar.

Avantages

The data insights are really helpful for us to make decisions.

Inconvénients

The mentors are not able to see their matching % with the available mentees.