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Challenges with Managing a Traditional Mentoring Program

Forget spreadsheets and hand-matching. Here are four ways mentoring software can help ease the burden for implementing a traditional mentoring program.

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Mentoring Agreements Create the Foundation for Your Relationship

Establishing the groundwork for your mentoring relationship is a key element for success. You give yourself and your mentoring partner an advantage by creating a mentoring agreement at the ...

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Are You Fully Engaged in Mentoring?

Mentoring is meant to be a learning relationship where both parties benefit from spirited sharing. To get the most from your mentoring experience, you must fully engage with one another.

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How Effective Are You as a Mentor?

There isn't a magic formula for being a great mentor or mentee, but there are certainly effective and ineffective characteristics. Which do you have?

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Effective (and Ineffective) Characteristics of Mentees

To help you move your mentoring relationship in a positive direction, here are five effective and ineffective characteristics of mentees.

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5 Ways to Be a Great Mentor

Are you ready to be the best mentor possible? Here are five easy ways you can be a more effective mentor starting right now. Read more!

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Finding Time for Mentoring

We all know how difficult it is to find the time to complete tasks associated with our daily work duties, much less to find time for voluntary activities such as mentoring. So why do people do ...

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The Magnitude of Mentoring

The trickle-down effect of mentoring can lead to every employee in an organization being impacted by mentoring in some way.

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Connect Modern Mentoring to Programs

Guest author Adriane Gonzalez analyzes Modern Mentoring and the idea of connecting modern mentoring in the workplace to existing programs.

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Flipped Classrooms Put Learning to Work

Flip the classroom to make learning more effective, personal, and applicable to the job. Get ideas and tips in this blog.

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The Value of Context in Expertise

There's value in moving from learning to deeper understanding. Read how that can impact your work and your professional mentoring network.

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Corporate Culture Shines Light on Character

Culture is the heart of the company and is made up of the character of the employees at all levels. See how River lives out our values in this blog.

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Webinar Recap: Building Your Mentoring Roadmap

Building your mentoring roadmap will help you identify opportunities for mentoring program growth at your organization. Get ideas here.

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Stop Training and Start Learning

Go beyond training, and help employees learn. Give them ways to build personal learning and mentoring networks. Learn how in this blog and related eBook.

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Real Goals in Action

Learn how to set REAL goals and get ideas you can use in your mentoring relationships and mentoring training.

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Smart Goals Are Dumb

Consider REAL goals for professional development, not SMART goals. This can be an especially important part of mentee and mentor training.

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Women Get More Done than Men

Female senators get more done than their male counterparts. Statistics back it up.

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Modern Mentoring Provides Practical Advice

Author Randy Emelo describes his history with mentoring and his passion for modernizing the approach for professional mentoring programs.

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Before You Go: Mentoring and the Exiting Employee

Don't squander your company know-how. Get tips for how to use workplace mentoring programs to tap into employee knowledge before it walks out the door.

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Continuous Learning Leaves an Impact

Discover how you can bring learning to all employees at every stage of their career and make it a continuous, open, and inclusive process.

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Mentoring for Productivity

Mentoring to help with productivity? Genius! People can learn from their peers and colleagues as a way to address skill gaps and learning needs.

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Who Is the Best Mentor/Advisor for You?

For mentoring, view experts along a learning continuum. This helps build the pool of potential mentors available in an organization.

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4 Collaboration Styles in Social Learning and Mentoring

Discover 4 distinct styles of collaboration within virtual mentoring & social learning groups that impact how people work and learn together.

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Reverse Mentoring Is about More than Social Media Skills

This River blog tests some assumptions about reverse mentoring and offers ideas on the practice.

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Rewarding Good Behavior: Companies Succeed with Mentoring

This River blog describes how River helps companies solve real business problems through mentoring, with examples given from EMC and Sodexo.

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4 Phrases You Should Use in Mentoring

For a successful mentoring relationship of any type, try using these four phrases with your mentee or mentor.

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It’s Time for a Mentoring Revolution!

We want to help organizations take full advantage of mentoring and all of its scalable benefits. As a result, we declare a mentoring revolution.

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Find Your Mentoring Fit

Mentoring can augment existing employee development programs and initiatives at your organization. Here's how.

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The Many Faces of Mentoring

There are different ways that mentoring can take shape at your organization. Do you have ways to support each type?

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Why Mentoring Women Benefits Your Bottom Line

Don't overlook the financial perks organizations can gain by providing mentoring programs to their female employees.

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