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What’s Your Mentoring Perspective?

Do you think more about the past, present, or future? Your unique perspective can impact your mentoring relationship.

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Are You Living Up to Your Potential as a Mentor? [Training Journal]

This Training Journal article by Laura Francis shares four tips that can help you live up to your potential as a mentor and have a rewarding mentoring experience.

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What to Do When Your Mentoring Relationship Has Stalled Out

Is it time to give your mentoring relationship an energy boost? Here are four ways you can reinvigorate your mentoring relationship and get momentum back again.

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5 Ways to Make Mentoring a Personalized Learning Experience

Make your mentoring relationship a personalized learning experience. Here are five elements to adapt to your needs and individual situation.

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Rules of Engagement for Reverse Mentoring [Training Industry]

Help mentees and mentors participate in reverse mentoring with confidence, care, and consideration. Try these five rules of engagement today from Laura Francis of River.

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Lessons Learned Through Failure

Sometimes the most important lessons we learn are the ones that occur because we failed at something. Use your mentoring relationship as a safe space to discuss failures.

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How Do I Mentor Someone?

Good mentors focus on the mentee's goals and development. Here are seven actions you can take to be a good mentor.

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3 Tips for Successful Mentoring Conversations [ATD]

In this ATD article, Laura Francis shares three tips to help mentees and mentors make the most of their mentoring conversations and build meaningful mentoring relationships.

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After #MeToo, Here’s What You Need in a Mentoring Relationship

Don't let fear hold you back. Here are three simple ideas on how to approach your mentoring relationships and how to treat one another so that there is no more fear—on either side.

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10 Questions to Ask Your Mentor

Mentoring thrives because of the personal connections and relationships you create. Here are 10 questions to ask mentors to help you get started.

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7 Types of Mentors

What type of mentor should you look for? From reverse to traditional to peer, here are seven ideas for mentors you could search for today.

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A Practical Guide for Mentoring Conversations

Get the tips you need to have productive and effective mentoring conversations. Download River's eBook today to start improving your mentoring relationships.

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My Mentoring Mantra

I have many mentors and supporters in my life as a mom to a child with special needs. I also have a mentoring mantra that we can all use: I do not have to do this alone.

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How to Set Priorities in Mentoring Relationships

Don't get overwhelmed in your mentoring relationship. Here are four steps you can take to set priorities for your mentoring goals.

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Do Generational Differences Matter in Mentoring?

Are our ideas about mentoring tied to our generational identities? Or is that just an easy stereotype?

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Finding Your Strengths in Mentoring

How could mentoring impact your life if you focus on your strengths as areas to grow and improve?

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Reaping Rewards as a Mentor [CTDO]

Mentoring relationships don’t only help and benefit the mentees. Chris Browning shares ideas for how mentors can get the most from their relationships in this Career Hacks article via CTDO.

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Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Your Mentor?

All good things must come to an end...even your mentoring relationship. Try these tips when it's time to say goodbye to your mentor.

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Expressing Gratitude in Mentoring

Taking the time to explicitly state why you are grateful to be in this mentoring relationship with your mentee or mentor can be a great conversation starter. Here are some tips to get you going.

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5 Mentoring Activities You Can Try Today

Are things feeling stale in your mentoring relationship? Are you feeling stuck? Have you run out of ideas? Try these five mentoring activities to bring some zip back into your learning relationship.

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What Does Success Look Like to You?

Success looks different for each of us, and it can even look different for us as we grow and change. Here is what success in mentoring could look like.

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What Is Mentoring?

People often talk about mentors as their coaches, guides, teachers, advocates, and advisors. This begs the question: What is mentoring?

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5 Questions All Mentees Should Ask

Mentoring can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially for mentees as they embark on a mentoring relationship and try to figure out what areas they want to focus on, what goals they want to set, ...

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Sage Advice for Mentors

Most people feel it is a great privilege to be asked to be someone's mentor. It can also be a little humbling and overwhelming at times to be looked upon as someone who might have the answers to ...

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Don’t Let Mentoring Just Become a Fad

Mentoring should not be just a fad. Here are three tips to help you make your mentoring program a staple of your organization.

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How Mentoring Can Plug the Brain Drain

Don't lose knowledge when employees walk out the door. Here are three ways mentoring can help with the problematic brain drain.

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3 Mentoring Resolutions for the New Year

It’s not happenstance that National Mentoring Month falls in January, a month associated with starting over, resolutions and new beginnings. River’s Laura Francis shares three ...

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What We Can Learn about Mentoring from Special Olympics

Laura Francis shares how she was inspired by the Special Olympics when she assisted her son in his SO debut. “Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.” ...

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How to Turn Mentoring Conversations into Action

The conversations you have with your mentee or mentor can make or break the relationship. Here are three ways you can turn talk into action.

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Black Belt Mentors

Whether done informally or formally, certifying people to lead mentoring programs is an important component for success. Randy Emelo shares how to train mentors and leaders in this article, which ...

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