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4 Key Benefits of Career Mentoring
Let’s get the fact straight. Days are gone when people used to go to the office so that they can pay their bills. Now people are more focused on job satisfaction and career development than just earning dollars. As a result, the corporate world has become incredibly competitive in the last two decades. Professionals are constantly searching for development opportunities; and when their organizations fail to provide that, they choose to move on. Read moreMon, Jan, 11, 2021
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Topics to Discuss in a Business Mentoring Program
Having a business mentoring program is an effective method of developing talent within an organization. Individuals with mentors perform better, advance in their career faster, and experience more job satisfaction. Besides, mentoring has benefits for organizations too: It can resolve diversity issues in a workplace It can help in succession planning for organizations Mentoring reduces turnover It also helps attract new employees Mentorship is a unique relationship and, indeed, is one of the most beautiful relationships one can have in a professional atmosphere. However, the effectiveness of mentoring relationships largely depends on communication. Read moreWed, Jan, 06, 2021
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What are the Qualities of a Good Mentor?
There are lots of talks about how beneficial mentoring relationships are and how much young professionals need mentoring. Of course, having a mentor is a vital part of one’s career and personal growth. A mentor acts as a guide, a friend, a sponsor, and a counselor. However, there is no doubt that becoming a mentor is also a wonderful opportunity for experienced professionals; because mentoring has great benefits for mentors too. But being a mentor is a tough job. It requires determination, commitment, and genuine interest to help others. Above all, it needs certain qualities that are not naturally present in everyone. If you are about to involve in a mentoring program as a mentor, practicing these six qualities of a good mentor can lead you to success. Willingness to share skills and knowledge Values learning Active listener Knows how to provide feedback Motivates others Emotionally intelligent Read moreWed, Dec, 30, 2020
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Top 5 Benefits of Reverse Mentoring
As soon as we hear the term “mentor”, we think of a senior, more experienced person guiding a younger person through his/her career journey. This is because traditional mentoring works this way. There is another type of mentoring which is becoming more popular these days because of its enormous benefits: Reverse Mentoring. Read moreMon, Dec, 21, 2020
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Finding a Business Mentor Has Never Been Easier
Mentor-Quest: Retail Version Finding a mentor just got a whole lot easier! Mentor-Quest is an effective, easy, and fun web-based tool that we designed after nearly two decades in the corporate mentoring industry. So many people want mentors, but don't know how to find a mentor. We’ve made Mentor-Quest interactive, with an innovative video-game-like feel that will capture peoples’ attention…and imaginations. Read moreWed, Dec, 02, 2020
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Use Reverse Mentoring to Support Your Company’s DE&I Goals
On May 25, 2020, a white police officer killed George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Floyd, a Black man, was accused of using a counterfeit $20 bill. Floyd’s death sparked protests and a national conversation specifically around police brutality, but also more generally about race and racism in America. This conversation has continued throughout 2020 and touched many areas of life, including housing, healthcare, economic inequality, employment and the workplace. Read moreMon, Nov, 30, 2020
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Establishing a Career Legacy Through Business Mentoring
Younger workers are often focused on their own development and achievements, and rightly so. The early years of building a successful career should focus on cultivating skills and experiences that one can tap into later in one’s career. However, as executives get closer to the end of their careers, they often start to look more outside themselves. Realizing that they won’t be working forever, they start to think about what their organization might be like when they’re retired, and what kind of legacy they will leave. Executives nearing retirement may think, “Will my work be erased or forgotten? Or will my lessons and values live on through others?” Read moreMon, Nov, 23, 2020
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What is Career Mentoring?
There are many different types of business mentoring, as mentoring can be used to accomplish a number of business objectives. There’s traditional business mentoring that focuses on skill development, mentoring to improve company culture or to support diversity, equality and inclusion efforts, and reverse mentoring that puts the more junior employee in the role of the mentor. One type of mentoring that has gained popularity over the past few decades is career mentoring. Read moreMon, Nov, 16, 2020
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Why Your Company Needs More Women Leaders
More than ever, corporations are in need of dynamic, prepared leaders. Due to technology, an increasingly global business environment, and other changing social and political factors, the speed of business is moving faster and is as competitive as it has ever been. For businesses to survive and thrive, they must have effective leadership steering the organization. Read moreThu, Nov, 12, 2020
