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. ...
Positive culture drives value. It inspires people and creates an environment in which employees, especially millennials, want to work. Yet that kind of culture isn't something we can take for granted. Organizational culture doesn’t simply trickle down from the C-suite. Last year, we witnessed many corporate...
As the finals of college basketball descends upon us, we are reminded of the importance of having a strong team, both on the court and off. Those on the bench are equally as important as those on the court: they have the training, the qualifications,...
How succession ready is your organization? Approximately 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 years old today, and another 10,000 will turn 65 tomorrow. In fact, according to the Pew Research Center, about 10,000 baby boomers will turn 65 every day until the year 2030. That’s a...
Demonstrable results matter. Corporate boards and executive members restrict or eliminate funding for initiatives that don’t prove measurable success. A mentoring program is no exception, and while Gartner estimates the minimum return on investment (ROI) of a mentoring program to be 600 percent of the...
eMentorConnect® relies on the 4 Ms for Mentoring, and it all starts with Match. Throughout your life, you may have avoided playing matchmaker because, let’s face it, , it rarely works out. But when your job requires...
Mentors and mentees asking you what they should do during their meetings? Let’s say they’re in their second or third month-- they’ve gotten to know each other, shared successes and failures, and maybe even gone to a professional social event together. Sounds like it may...
Innovation drives growth, but innovating successfully requires creative approaches to familiar problems. Reverse mentoring, in which younger employees mentor older employees rather than the other way around, is a reliable and powerful way to foster creativity company-wide. One need only look to Fortune 500 investment...