In our company - while we all have varying skills and experience levels - we are all peers - we don't have managers. As such we 'guide' each other, being a gui

In our company - while we all have varying skills and experience levels - we are all peers - we don't have managers. As such we 'guide' each other, being a guide for our peers is opt-in but everyone has a guide. This is by _far_ both the most effective and natural process I've ever experienced, and my peers seem to feel the same way. I have three folks I that I guide. I have a 20-60 minute one on one VC with each of them roughly every 2 to 3 weeks. We all talk to each other more frequently than that on Slack so the feedback cycle for anything important doesn't ever need to take that long. If they don't feel like having a catch-up that day I'll happily move it for them (for example shift it forward a week), but we do have at least one a month and sometimes two. With new starters and less experienced engineers I like to start at a higher frequency for less time, e.g. twice in the first and second weeks, then weekly for a month etc... We do a 360 / self and peer review every 3 to 6 months - this mainly involves sending out a small survey to people we've been working with I given project/client to ask for their feedback. If anyone wants to shift who they're peered up with that is absolutely fine (and encouraged). Everyone who wishes to guide others meets up (virtually) for a general sync and sometimes some training / educational talks once a month. We maintain a handbook / guide to being a guide on our wiki. Topics of conversation are mostly organic but the common themes are: - How's life? - How's the project / product you're working on at the moment? - How's your work / life balance? - Anything you need extra support with (that you haven't already raised throughout the week)? - Are you planning to join/attend any of these (meetup/talk/Brownbag etc...) this week/month? <x,y,z> - You're due to send out a 360 to your peers in the next X weeks, do you have any questions about doing so? - What are you watching/listening to at the moment? - General discussion on any shared hobbies / interests. Etc... As someone whose worked in tech for 17~ years - this method really is pretty great when most others have been more of a pain than value add. For reference the company is a (modern) tech consultancy, with a size currently around 750, mostly engineers / developers of varying specialities, it seems to scale very well and operates pretty much the same as 3 years ago when we only had around 200.