Coaching / Mentoring / Consulting / Learning Organizations

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...

When making every employee successful as soon as possible became the new norm, formal organization needs from a mentor grew. A formal mentor relationship can jump start the learning curve and help a new employee succeed. These are the characteristics to seek in employees who are asked to or assigned to formally mentor new employees

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.

What makes a leader inspirational? The ability to inspire people to reach great heights of performance and success is a skill leaders need. Passion, purpose, listening and meaning help make a leader inspirational. Learn more about how to enable inspiration and motivation in the people you lead.

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.

Looking for a step-by-step coaching approach you can use to help an employee improve his work performance? This approach avoids discipline and produces great results.

Your Guide to Human Resources at About discusses the importance of a new definition of the coaching role for the HR professional.

In this article, Dr. Matt Starcevich of the Center for Coaching and Mentoring and Dr. Carl Otto from Ameritech, gives solid empirical evidence of the effect that transformational leadership offers to an organization, and makes a strong case for coaching.

Several articles at this Web site discuss the process of mentoring, how to effectively set up a formal mentoring process and more.

The article offers real world examples of companies who are implementing mentoring best practices.

Coach U offers a free teleclass that teaches the basics about coaching. The rest of the site is a rich resource for people interested in adding coaching to their list of potential interventions.

Do you know the difference between mentoring and coaching? Daniel R. Tobin cites sample questions a person in each role might ask.

With the ranks of middle managers who are women and minorities swelling, why aren’t more of them reaching executive positions? This article suggests lack of proper mentoring may be one important reason.