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Mentoring Brings out the Best in Us

Mentoring makes a difference. Here are three ways mentoring helps bring out the best in us, regardless of our role as mentee or mentor.

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Gain Soft Skills While Mentoring

With our lives dominated by screens, clicks and likes, have we lost our touch on interpersonal soft skills? Use mentoring to fill the gap.

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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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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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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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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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Constant Sound Is like Silence, Only Louder: Synthesizing the Information Overload

Are you overwhelmed by too much information during your work day? Here's why it's important to be able to contextualize and filter information.

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So what are you waiting for? Contact River today to schedule a demo of our mentoring software.