January is National Mentoring Month, and community centers, nonprofits, and schools across the country are using the occasion to report on the state of mentorship in education, launch new programs, and advocate for increased mentoring involvement. While the internet abounds with information on mentorships for...
Women make up only 6.4 percent of CEOs and 25 percent of C-suites, yet they’re nearly 50 percent of the labor force. Why the disconnect? If there are almost as many women as men in the workforce why aren’t there more female leaders? Nancy Wolk, founder...
Happy New Year! We are out-partied, over-socialized, and have been swinging a little too far to the left of moderation. We’re feeling refreshed and ready to buckle down on work, right? RIGHT? Even if you’re just exhausted, we’ve got your mentoring program resolutions ready to...
Can millennials, Gen Xers, and baby boomers function as a team in the modern workforce? That’s one of today’s most pressing questions for organizations that want to harness the benefits of multigenerational collaboration. In recent years, the millennial generation eclipsed the baby boomers as the...
If you’re running a mentorship program, you’re going to have to deal with constant transitions. Coworkers will leave for new jobs, short-term mentorships will end, and participants may feel at a loss as to how to move forward. Call us dramatic if you want, but...
When you’ve been in the game for a long time, it’s easy to forget how it felt when you were first getting started. While we always encourage mentors to ask mentees what they’re hoping to improve upon or learn, a heads up never hurts. Whether...
Mentorships can be one of the more informal relationships in the workplace. Participants must feel comfortable sharing insecurities and challenges in order to receive the guidance they need to grow. Goncalo de Vasconcelos, CEO and co-founder of SyndicateRoom, an online equity investing platform in the UK,...
Last week, we dove into the arena of gender in the workplace and presented the debate on which gender is better suited to mentor a female mentee. As we demonstrated, women make excellent mentors for other women, primarily because they provide a mode of representing...