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MAY 2, 2008

Here's 6 tips for helping an employee find a mentor: 1. Sometimes individuals outside of your company or outside the chain of command, such as someone in a trade organization, are the best mentors. Defining how the relationship should work can help both the mentor and your direct report. For example, how often should they meet?

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AUGUST 22, 2013

Mentors have a similar challenge. Begin your advice giving by letting the protégé know the focus or intent of your mentoring. Effective mentors recognize the challenge of “teaching so it stays taught” and meet that challenge by coupling their wisdom with sensitivity. Managers as Mentors is available on Amazon.com.

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APRIL 7, 2014

Jim Taggart of ChangingWinds offers up a dynamite book on mentoring: “Of all the books I’ve read on coaching and mentoring over the years, the one that stands out for me is Chip Bell’s Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. In essence, the mentor is a sage, one who helps guide and teach another individual.

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MAY 30, 2013

I posed this question to a group of professionals who mentor managers. Mentors agree that you can rely on a certain level of resistance when it comes to identifying development opportunities. Optimally, employing a mentor, or coach, is the approach to better development and stronger results. Here’s what they said.

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Guest post from Robert Galford: It has been hard to ignore the recent spate of stories about the newest techniques and technologies designed to increase employee efficiency, motivation and/or engagement.

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JANUARY 17, 2019

A good leader is someone who guides and mentors a team, who offers counsel, looks to foster a good working environment and creates a culture that’s sustainable. They think big, they come up with great ideas, they fail, they counsel, mentor, and are part of the team. For me, a good leader isn’t someone who just tells others what to do.

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JANUARY 17, 2013

Here are a few other ideas: Start a mentoring program. For example, the mentor might listen to the speaker’s presentations and give feedback on confusing phrases or mispronounced words. Mentors can also suggest resources and tools to help the non-native speaker improve English competency.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Development actions should include a combination of projects, assignments, courses, reading, learning from others, coaching, and mentoring. Mentors are often other managers, sometimes 1-2 levels above the employee’s manager, who can provide career advice and assistance.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

These labels and/or descriptors will typically just cause confusion and add little value to the discussion.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

coaching entrepreneurs leadership mentoring Taffy Williams' The founder and president of Colonial Technology Development Company, which assists start-ups in technology commercialization, he writes the popular “Startup Blog,” as well as articles for Examiner.com.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

Find your own mentors. Don’t hold your breath waiting for a mentor to be formally “assigned” to you. Sure, we don’t always have a choice, but if you do, don’t let your company or boss force fit you into roles that just play to your strengths. Find your own. Look for those that you admire that can give you advice, and ask them.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

Mentored --she showed them the way and shared her knowledge and experience with the goal of having them get to the “next level” and become self-sufficient lions. The warthog was small enough to provide her cubs with another time to practice and hone their hunting skills.

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MAY 2, 2019

They are approachable and skillful in working with people, listen well, build high-performing teams, mentor and develop capability in others, and empower their people. Creative leaders, on the other hand, are less self-centric and are much more about developing the capacity and capability of others and the organization.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Do they help us coach, mentor, and develop our people? How long does it take for our managers and staff to implement this process? What are the results and outcomes? Do they help us have a robust, dynamic learning environment? Or do they instill fear and resentment?

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Meet with them, take them to lunch, introduce them to co-workers, assign a co-worker to be their mentor and have all of their resources (phone, computer, e-mail address) ready for them. Training, coaching and mentoring, and stretch assignments are just some of the ways to develop employees. Employee engagement and retention.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2013

coaching mentoring learning Beth Armknecht Miller' Beth’s insight and expertise has made her a sought-after speaker, and she has been featured in numerous industry blogs and publications. To learn more about Beth visit BethArmknechtMiller.com or Executive-Velocity.com.

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Spend time mentoring by transferring skills, giving knowledge, and providing feedback during and after the project. A special project is a project that adds new value to the team while also allowing the team member to develop new skills. Is there a project you have been putting on the back burner for a while?

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JULY 17, 2012

Leaders establish direction, align people, motivate, inspire, and mentor, and produce change. *Managers plan and budget, organize and staff, control and solve problems, and produce predictability and order. Source: from John Kotter’s What Leaders Really Do, Harvard Business Review.

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JULY 8, 2013

Have “significant other people”, coaches and/or mentors, been identified? How much creativity is reflected in the planned actions? Does the plan offer an opportunity to enhance strengths, as well as address deficiencies? Are challenging assignments and projects represented? Accelerated Development: 13.

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OCTOBER 15, 2012

These include access to mentors, executive coaches, executive development programs , special projects, international assignments, and cross-functional lateral moves. Keep an open line of communication between you and your manager, coach, mentor, employees, and peers. Take advantage of the development support offered to you.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

All graduates of the program were assigned mentors from their specific functional area. These mentors were executives in those areas and had agreed to participate in a formal mentoring program to groom junior high potential employees to take on executives roles in the future.

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AUGUST 15, 2016

The same is true for mentors – put an end to those relationships before the employee gets too dependent. This will teach them how to mentor and coach – they’ll love it! Make sure they change bosses frequently. You don’t want them to have time to develop a relationship with any one manager, constant change and variety is much better.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

HR should also be involved with safety committees, training and employee development and company mentoring programs. HR can facilitate discussions and task forces for planning and next steps.

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JUNE 15, 2017

These “students” I get to mentor are the best of the best when it comes to leadership, and yet, they’re not perfect. Through my courses like Mann U, I’ve helped some of the country’s largest specialty retailers and manufacturers run well and, most importantly, lead well.

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JUNE 30, 2016

Another important feature of an ideal training program is to incorporate the role of a mentor or coach. Mentors advise and coaches are task focused. A SMART goal is the recommended type of goal because SMART goals are measurable, realistic and create a sense of urgency because of the time constraint.

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MAY 14, 2013

Offer a senior leader mentor (usually for high potentials). Suggest a person for the person to “shadow ” (subject matter expert, role model, mentor, different business or country, etc…) for a few days. Suggest subject matter experts for the person to work with on specific development needs.

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JULY 21, 2016

She is author of the new book UPSETTING THE TABLE: Women Mentoring Women. Robbie Hardy spent 20+ successful years in the corporate sector before finding her true calling in the entrepreneurial world. For more information visit www.RobbieHardy.com.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Mentor someone. I’m going to seek to understand the other person’s point of view and emotions, and force myself not to evaluate, judge, or offer my own point of view until I am sure I have understood theirs. Get feedback on my leadership skills. I’ll make myself available to help someone else become even better than me.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Fred Smith, another leader who was Ziglar’s mentor, talked about the leader as servant: “Leadership is not a title that grants you license to force others to knuckle under; it’s a skill you perform, a service you render for the whole group.”

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JUNE 21, 2018

And the cycle completes as you become what I call a knowledge leader —a person who passes on hard-earned lessons as they mentor others, so the cycle can repeat and knowledge is continually passed on. The cycle continues with taking actions that unleash potential in those you lead, which will help you achieve great results.

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JULY 29, 2013

20%: Other people (bosses, coaches, mentors, etc…). Successful executives learn their most important leadership lessons though: 70%: Challenging assignments (job changes and stretch assignments). 10%: Formal courses and books Source: Center for Creative Leadership. Companies reporting strong leadership development programs are 1.5

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JULY 11, 2013

There are many reasons why these leaders are not confronted directly – key customer/client contacts, technical expertise, political connections, or powerful mentors. Less than a year later, he was physically healthier, happier, and taking on new responsibilities mentoring others. But that’s a story for another time….

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MARCH 22, 2012

Talk your concern over with a mentor and decide how to present the issue in a constructive, assertive, specific, and factual way. I’d even suggest role playing the discussion with your mentor or a trusted friend. Decide what you want to say and how you want to say it.

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DECEMBER 3, 2015

Even the best of mentor/mentoree relationships end in conflict. As an example, my mentor primarily consulted nonprofit organizations, and when I started working with major corporations, he was disappointed. It is inevitable! It is a right of passage that eventually results in reconciliation and mutual respect.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

They assign every new hire with a team of three different mentor types: An on-boarding ambassador—who gets you up to speed on how things work at the firm, a Relationship Leader—who provides direction in your career, and finally, a Career Coach, who is there to manage you in the moment—they call it managing real-time, or play-by-play.

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MARCH 16, 2017

SAS Institute, a statistical analysis software company, invests in its colleagues with an almost limitless set of classes to acquire new skills, gives employees access to career mentors, subsidizes care for elderly parents, offers financial assistance and paid leave for adoptions, has built on-site sports and recreation facilities, has a beautiful (..)

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

At least not without guidance from mentors, experience, desire to think of others first, and the will to absorb his or her staff’s positive and negative traits. Can you be engaging, good-humored, tactful, available, considerate, courteous, honest, reliable, and understanding, every day, all day? Are you leadership material?

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