A professional mentor can change your career path I recently had an entry-level employee say to me that they understand the importance of having a mentor, but just couldn't get over the initial fear of asking someone to be their mentor. Insert face palm. While I’ve...
I love the start of a New Year! For many, it provides the fuel needed to re-engage and focus on personal goals after some self-reflection. Some hire personal trainers to tone up and meet physical health goals. While fitting into that old...
How do you fit in your mentee's corporate dream team as a professional mentor? The 1992 United States men’s Olympic basketball team was the first American Olympic team to feature active professional players from the national basketball association. The team was named the “Dream Team” due...
Here are the last three tips within your holiday survival guide. Using these tips will help you maintain focus and momentum to balance both professional and personal demands over the busy holiday season. ...
How does your organization embody employee engagement? It will be different within each organization and ultimately depends on the executive leadership team. Employee engagement has always existed, only the term is relatively new. Engagement used to be thought of as potlucks, birthday cakes, and the...
Effective managers make time to learn the career goals of their employees, and then do whatever they reasonably can to help advance employees toward their goals. Tragically, just 38% of workers in a 2017 RAND study indicated that their employers had promising advancement prospects. ...
In thinking back on the experience recently, I had to smile as it reminded me of the mentor matching process offered by eMentorConnect’s cloud-based platform....
A 3-part series on making informed decisions about your company’s mentoring program. By now, you’re probably feeling solid about your mentoring program. You’ve decided if you’re ready to automate your program, and you’ve determined the best approach on how to match your mentees to your mentors....
A 3-part series on making informed decisions about your company’s mentoring program Last week we examined the question of when it’s time to automate your mentoring program. This week we’re taking a deep dive on a key question as you create a mentoring program: how should...
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