A personal statement (up to 500 characters) that anchors an employee's career direction and long-term aspirations. Your Career Vision is the "why" behind your goals. Examples: "Become a principal engineer leading platform architecture decisions," "Start my own business in the next 5 years," "Transition to a management role and lead a team of 5."
A top-level career objective tied to your Career Vision. Goals are the "what" — the major things you want to achieve. A goal might take 3–12 months. Examples: "Complete AWS certification," "Lead the API redesign project," "Build skills in product strategy." Goals can have multiple milestones and tasks attached.
A time-bound checkpoint within a goal that helps you stay on track. Milestones break a goal into smaller phases with target dates. A goal typically has 2–4 milestones. Example: For the goal "Complete AWS certification," you might have milestones like "Pass EC2 exam (Feb 28)", "Pass RDS exam (Mar 31)", "Pass Solutions Architect exam (Apr 30)." Milestones help you pace your work.
A concrete, actionable item linked to a milestone. Tasks are the "how" — the specific things you do every day or week. Tasks have priority levels (Low, Medium, High, Critical) and status (TODO, In Progress, In Review, Done). A milestone typically has 3–5 tasks. Example: For the milestone "Pass EC2 exam (Feb 28)," tasks might be "Complete Chapter 1 study guide," "Practice 50 exam questions," "Review weak topics," "Take final practice test."
The current state of a goal or milestone.
The urgency and importance of a task.
The current state of a task.
A percentage showing how close a goal is to completion. Progress is automatically calculated based on the percentage of tasks marked Done in that goal's milestones. For example, if a goal has 10 tasks and 5 are Done, the goal is 50% complete. This gives a quick snapshot of momentum.
Feedback or discussion on a goal, milestone, or task. Comments appear in a threaded list; you can reply to specific comments to create conversation threads. Comments trigger email notifications; you can @mention a specific person to notify them directly.
A notification system. When you type @ followed by a person's name in a comment, that person receives an email alert. Example: "@Sarah, can you review the approach for this milestone?" Use @mentions to draw someone's attention to something important.
Your organization's instance of Mentora. A workspace is a shared container for all team members, goals, milestones, tasks, and activity logs. One company or department = one workspace. All members of a workspace can see the same shared data (subject to role-based permissions).
A permission level that determines what you can see and do in a workspace.
A person with the Admin role who manages organizational settings, billing, user accounts, and permissions. Also called "Admin" for short.
A person with the Manager role who mentors direct reports and helps them develop their career roadmap. Not necessarily a "manager" in the org chart sense — more of a mentor or guide. A person can be an employee (with their own goals) and a manager (with direct reports) at the same time.
An employee whose career development is managed by a specific manager. A direct report has that manager assigned to them. A manager can have 1–100+ direct reports.
The collection of a person's goals, milestones, and tasks, taken together. Your career roadmap is your visual plan for career development. It shows where you are (dashboard stats), where you're going (goals), how you'll get there (milestones and tasks), and your progress (percentage complete).
The home screen of Mentora. It displays your Career Vision, key stats (active goals, milestones, tasks), upcoming deadlines, recent activity, and (if you're a manager) a summary of your team's progress. The dashboard is your at-a-glance view of your career development.
A record of all activity in your workspace: who created, updated, or deleted goals/milestones/tasks, who changed roles, who logged in, and when. Workspace Administrators can view and filter the audit log to track changes for compliance and accountability.
An email sent to a new team member inviting them to join your workspace. The invitation includes a link to sign up. Once they sign up using that link, they are automatically added to your workspace with the role you assigned (Employee, Manager, or Admin).
To remove a person from a workspace (deactivate) or restore them (reactivate). Deactivated users cannot log in; their data remains in the workspace but they are not counted as active members. Reactivating restores their access.
A free period during which you can use Mentora without a credit card. Trials typically last 14–30 days, depending on your plan. After the trial ends, you must upgrade to a paid subscription or your workspace will be frozen.
A paid plan entitling you to use Mentora for one or more seats (team members). Subscriptions are billed monthly or annually. Statuses include: Trial, Active, Canceled, Past Due (payment failed), and Expired.
A user license. Each team member occupies one seat. Your subscription specifies how many seats you have. Adding people beyond your seat count requires upgrading your subscription.
An alert about activity in Mentora. Notifications can be in-app (a bell icon on the dashboard showing unread counts) or email-based (sent to your email address). You can customize which notifications you receive (comments, @mentions, milestone deadlines, etc.).
To download your data in a file format (CSV or JSON). You can export goals, milestones, and tasks for analysis, archiving, or use in other tools. Exports are available at the individual level (your own goals) or team level (all team members' goals, for managers).
To upload goal data in bulk from a CSV file. Useful for migrating from another system or setting up many goals at once. Mentora validates the format and shows you any errors before committing the data.
Feature requests or bug reports submitted by users through the Feedback button in Mentora. Super Admins review feedback to prioritize product improvements.
A changelog published by Mentora documenting new features, improvements, bug fixes, and known issues in each product update.
Single Sign-On: the ability to sign in to Mentora using credentials from another service, such as Google or Microsoft Azure Entra ID. Instead of managing a separate Mentora password, you use your existing Google or Microsoft account.
The amount of time you can be inactive before Mentora automatically logs you out for security. Admins can configure this setting (options range from 15 minutes to 8 hours). The default is 4 hours.
Rules for creating a secure password. Mentora requires passwords to be at least 8 characters long and include at least one uppercase letter and one number.
The length of time your data is kept in Mentora after deletion or workspace suspension. Audit logs can be retained for 30 days, 90 days, 1 year, or indefinitely, depending on your settings.