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Free Resources to Make Your Mentoring Program Amazing

This collection of resources from River’s mentoring experts can help you run your mentoring program and support your mentees and mentors.

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Create Deeper Meaning with Your Mentoring Program

Let voices be heard through mentoring programs and mentoring groups. Listen. Lead. Respect. Improve. Now is the time to act.

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Recruiting Strategies for Your Mentoring Program

How do you get people to sign up for your corporate mentoring program? Check out these recruitment strategies from River.

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How Big Should My Mentoring Program Be?

Getting the size of your mentoring program right can help you build a quality experience for your mentees and mentors. Learn how here.

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Our Vision for Mentoring 2020

What does mentoring in 2020 have in store for you? Check out these predictions and tips to do more with mentoring in 2020.

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Why Peer and Reverse Mentoring Make Sense for Onboarding Programs

Connect your onboarding program with mentoring to create a personalized and cost-effective way to welcome and retain talented new hires.

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When Mentoring Programs Fail

Is your mentoring program doomed? Avoid these three mistakes to create a more successful mentoring program for your employees.

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Common Mentoring Questions

The mentoring experts at River share some common questions we hear from program administrators...and how to be successful.

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How to Get Better Results with Mentoring

The Client Success team at River shows why they rock in this blog from Allison Laing. Check out how she helped this longtime client increase the number of mentoring relationships by more than 700%.

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Which Mentor Matching Option Is Right for You?

When you’re designing your mentoring program, one of the biggest factors you will need to determine is how you want mentees and mentors to be matched. Is self-directed or administrator matching ...

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Mentoring Programs Are Not One Size Fits All

After nearly 20 years in the mentoring software business, here are three lessons we've learned with our clients on how to make mentoring programs successful. They are not one-size-fits-all!

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How Do I Run a Successful Mentoring Pilot?

We've seen successes and failures with mentoring pilots over the years. Here are seven tips you should follow to help you be successful.

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The Art and Science of Leading an Online Mentoring Group

Group mentoring thrives when there is both structure and flexibility within the group. Creating this requires a balance of art and science.

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Keys to Creating a Mentoring Culture

Design the mentoring culture you want! Here are three things to get you started...beyond just launching a mentoring program.

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Three Ways to Sabotage Your Mentoring Plan

You may not realize it, but you could be sabotaging your mentoring program. Here are some dangers to look out for.

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How Do I Design a Mentoring Program?

We hear from people every day who need to start or expand a mentoring program, but who aren't sure of what steps to take. Here is the answer.

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5 Mentoring Program Pitfalls

Beware! Avoid these five common pitfalls when running a business mentoring program.

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Mentoring Ethics

Connect mentoring programs to ethics training to support and guide employees in the real world while they apply their new knowledge.

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Mentoring Groups Help Reinforce Learning

Don't overlook group mentoring as an integrated part of more traditional training interventions. Get ideas here.

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Enhance Employee Training with Mentoring Programs

Are your employees keeping up with changing work demands? Read this to find out how mentoring software and programs can support employee training.

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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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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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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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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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Combatting the Fallacy of Not Having Time for a New Software

Think your employees don't have time for a new software or process? Think again, with these strategies from Chris Browning.

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