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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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Multi-gen Workforce

Baby Boomers are getting set to retire. Gen Xers are taking on new leadership roles. Millennials are entering the workforce. How can you address all the learning needs of these unique generations?

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Shift Your Focus with Modern Mentoring

In a nutshell, mentoring is learning from the experience of others. Randy Emelo shares how organizations are modernizing their approach to mentoring and the results they are getting.

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How-To Guide for a Mentoring Revolution

Revolutionize mentoring at your organization and increase the benefits it can have for your workforce. River can help you do it. Learn how in this free eBook from the mentoring experts.

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Getting the Most from Mentoring Conversations

Finding a mentor or mentee (or making the match as an administrator) is only one part of the equation when it comes to mentoring success. Knowing how to engage in productive mentoring ...

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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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Before They Go: Mentoring and the Exiting Employee

Don’t let your organizational knowledge walk out the door! Randy Emelo offers three tips for using group mentoring with your exiting employees to capture their critical insights before ...

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Mentoring for Productivity

Based on his work with numerous Fortune 500 companies, Randy Emelo shares three tips for using mentoring for organizational productivity.

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Continuous Learning eBook

In this guide from River, we share the startling facts of how quickly people forget what they learned in training, along with a new learning paradigm model to help you envision what continuous ...

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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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How-to Guide for Creating Learning Networks

In this eBook, we explain why companies have to give people a way to collaborate with one another that is personalized, relevant, and timely—while also being cost-effective for the organization.

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Pillars of Modern Mentoring

Discover the five core building blocks of developing a modern mentoring mindset in this article from Randy Emelo.

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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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The Power of Peers in Modern Mentoring

Unlock the power of peer mentoring in your organization. Uncover three reasons why this is a great way to support employees in this blog.

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Mentoring in a Millennial World

Millennials crave mentoring, but the way in which this generation prefers to connect, learn and share expertise leaves traditional mentoring programs ill-equipped.

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Crappy Advisors Stifle Mentoring Groups

Get more from group mentoring. Here are four ways that effective mentors and mentoring leaders can drive learning in mentoring groups.

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The Spirit of Mentoring at Sodexo

Jodi Davidson of Sodexo and Randy Emelo of River share how Sodexo embraces the spirit of mentoring in their award-winning program of the same name.

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Why Millennials Think Your Onboarding Process Sucks

Learn how to make your onboarding process suck less for Millennials and non-Millennials alike.

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3 Myths about Collaborative Learning

Mentoring and learning networks give employees personal connections they crave. Bust three myths about organizational collaborative learning in this blog.

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Unlock Agency Success with Modern Mentoring

Modern mentoring means enabling your workforce to connect with one another via technology for learning and development that occurs in a just-in-time fashion, and it affects the daily work-related ...

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What Kind of Collaborator Are You?

Collaboration is key for mentoring and learning. So what kind of collaborator are you? Read this blog to find out.

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The Evolution of Mentoring

Since the 1980s, mentoring has evolved from a practice of one-to-one career advancement relationships to a practice that supports social learning, informal learning, peer collaboration and more. ...

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Unlock Organizational Success with Modern Mentoring

Learn how modern mentoring programs can help you unleash the power of high employee engagement at your organization.

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How to Modernize Mentoring at Your Organization

It's time for a fresh approach to mentoring. It's time for modern mentoring. Learn more about this concept in this blog.

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The Evolution of Mentoring

Examine the evolution of corporate mentoring, from its beginnings in the 1980s to the modern practice it has become today.

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3 Timeless Boomer Lessons for Every Generation

This blog from a Millennial at River looks at three timeless lessons she learned from a Baby Boomer, which are actually applicable to every generation.

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The ROI of Modern Mentoring and Knowledge Sharing

Randy Emelo explains how to maximize your top knowledge sources to benefit the entire workforce, and impact the bottom line.

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