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Mentoring helps employees develop their talents and improve their skills. Mentoring is coaching, listening, advising, and maintaining a relationship, generally with an employee who is less experienced than the mentor. Mentoring is a proven method for developing the skills and potential ability to contribute of an employee. Find mentoring resources as well as those concerning knowledge management and how to build a learning organization.
Tap Into the Power of Mentoring
A mentoring relationship is a win-win for all parties: the employee who seeks a mentor, the mentor, and organizations that employ the mentoring pair. Need convincing? Here’s why mentoring makes business sense. Seeking a mentor? Here’s how to find mentoring, benefit from mentoring, and succeed with mentoring. I interviewed Beth Carvin to...
Top 15 Characterstics of a Successful Mentor
These are characteristics to seek in employees who are asked to or assigned to formally mentor new employees or employees who are new to a department or job. The required characteristics will differ somewhat in an informal mentor relationship that develops casually between two individuals. These are key for a successful mentor.
Build a Mentoring Culture
What does it take to develop people? More than writing “equal opportunity†into your organization’s mission statement. More than sending someone to a training class. More than hard work on the part of employees. What development does take is people who are willing to listen and help their colleagues. Development takes coaches, guides and...
Creating a Mentoring Culture
More than ever before, organizations, large and small, are looking outside traditional mentoring paradigms to raise the bar on the practice of mentoring by creating a mentoring culture. A mentoring culture continuously focuses on building the mentoring capacity, competence, and capability of the organization. Discover the hallmarks of a...
Group Mentoring
Effective relationships and learning are the mainstays of organizational success today. Organizations that find meaningful ways for their employees to connect are more likely to realize greater productivity, enhanced career growth, freely flowing innovation and overall improvement in employee performance. Group mentoring is a value-added tool...
What Do You Mean My Company’s a Stepping Stone?
With baby boomers – all 80-plus million of them – starting their exodus from the workforce and into retirement, the labor pool is shrinking. No, Chicken Little, that doesn’t mean the sky is falling. But it does mean that organizations that distinguish themselves as destinations for talented and valued employees will see their stock rise - and...
Mentoring and Baby Boomers: Mentoring Is a Strategic Business Imperative
Baby boomers play a key role in mentoring the next generations of employees. Utilize baby boomers to mentor because of the wealth of knowledge older workers have acquired. Younger workers will benefit immensely from mentoring. Mentoring will jump start careers and help the next generation of workers succeed more quickly. Learn more.
Make Learning Matter: Become a Learning Organization
Organizations with the best chance to succeed and thrive in the future are learning organizations. Find tips for how you can turn your organization into a learning organization here.
Best Practices for Employers With Interns
Working with interns is both a privilege and a responsibility for employers. Interns can be a boon to your business and give you the extra pair of hands, current educational thinking, and enthusiasm and support your business needs. An employer, and your employees, can gain a lot from the contributions of an intern – if you manage the internship...
How to Welcome a New Employee
Welcoming a new employee is more than making a company announcement and a boss assignment. Welcoming a new employee to give the new employee the best possibility of integrating successfully in your company requires a series of steps that start after your job offer is accepted. These welcoming steps for the new employee continue right into his or...