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Admin Features

The administrative features in River give you as much—or as little—control as you want as an administrator.

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The Purpose Behind Modern Mentoring Programs

There is a growing need to engage workers in meaningful collaboration and to share wisdom that only comes as the result of experience, which is where mentoring fits.

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Mentoring Insights from Corporate Practitioners

During two recent River webinars, participants answered poll questions that give us insight into the inner workings and issues facing mentoring administrators in today's organizations.

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Expert Advice

The most appropriate advisors aren’t always atop the learning heap. An ideal advisor may be just a step or two above the learner. This article from Randy Emelo shares stories from US LBM ...

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The Missing Piece of Mentoring Success?

In this River blog post, Chris Browning explores if there is a sixth M that should be added to our Five M's of Successful Mentoring model.

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How to Design a Mentoring Program

With the rise in popularity of mentoring, talent professionals are being tasked with creating mentoring programs that involve more participants and align with current business needs. This is no ...

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An Inside Look at Mentoring Success: Sodexo’s Spirit of Mentoring

As more and more employees ask for mentoring on the job, organizations can sometimes struggle with getting an effective mentoring program up and running. Sodexo is a DiversityInc Top 50 company ...

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Mentoring Is More than the Match

A mentoring administrator's job goes well beyond just making the match between people. Learn more about River's 5 M's of Successful Mentoring model.

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Mentoring Administrators Sometimes Need Help Too

Looking for ways to help train your mentees and mentors? Check out this blog and eBook on 5 Tips for Being a Better Mentor.

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High Potentials

In high-potential programs today, the air of exclusivity should be replaced by a more open, collaborative environment where all leaders are challenged to elevate their own competencies and ...

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Building Blocks for Modern Mentoring

Adriane Gonzalez examines Modern Mentoring by Randy Emelo and explores the five core concepts for creating a modern mentoring culture.

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Finding Time for Mentoring

Are you committed to helping yourself or someone else develop? Get tips on how to find time for mentoring in this blog from Randy Emelo.

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Building Your Mentoring Roadmap

The trickle-down effect of mentoring can lead to every employee in an organization being impacted. Learn how building a mentoring roadmap can increase the magnitude of mentoring in your organization.

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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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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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How to Plot a Mentoring Program Roadmap

When charting the course for your mentoring program, you may run into roadblocks and stumble through navigational missteps. That’s why the experts at River are here to help. In this recorded ...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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