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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 for connecting employees and advancing learning within the organization.
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 not just on Wall Street. Find mentoring to be an employee recruitment and retention strategy.
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 mentoring culture.
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.
Tips for Effective Coaching
The human resource professional plays an important role as coach to executives and managers. These tips will help the HR professional succeed at coaching.
Leadership Success Secrets: Leadership Inspiration
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.
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 advocates. People development needs mentors. 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.
Coaching for Improved Performance
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.
The Strategic HR Coach
Your Guide to Human Resources at About discusses the importance of a new definition of the coaching role for the HR professional.
Tips for Effective Coaching
  Six tips that will help you coach most effectively, including recognizing that the coach is not in charge, are provided by your Guide to Human Resources at About.
Summary: Effective Networking for Professional Success
What propels your career success whether you are self-employed or work for others? Networking with as many people as possible. Your business success is a result of the power, reach and depth of the relationships you cultivate. Want to know more?
Coaching Behaviors and Skills
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.
It Takes a Strong Stomach to Listen…
Members of KRW International have been coaching for more than twenty years. This Fast Company article provides an opportunity to read about how one company approaches coaching.
Comprehensive Coaching U
This site offers a Certified Comprehensive Coaching designation since 1998. They offer online training programs, audio tapes and a certification program.
Making Mentoring Work
Several articles at this Web site discuss the process of mentoring, how to effectively set up a formal mentoring process and more.
Coaches Training Institute
The Institute offers training modules for current and aspiring professional and personal coaches. Their emphasis is on their Co-Active Coaching Model, which helps coaches approach their task as an "empowerer" rather than as an "advisor."
National Best Practices Work Group Results
Article provides a framework and checklist for an effective mentoring process. Developed by United Way of America.
Coaching Resources
Click on Coaching Resources for a nice list of sites and articles that further describe coaching practices.
Mentoring Best Practices
The article offers real world examples of companies who are implementing mentoring best practices.
Coach U
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.
Mentoring or Coaching?
Do you know the difference between mentoring and coaching? Daniel R. Tobin cites sample questions a person in each role might ask.
Shattering the Glass Ceiling
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.

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