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Mentoring Benefits Mentors As Well As Mentees

The Horizons Tracker

The benefits of mentoring are fairly well established, but the research highlights that over 60% of employees don’t currently have anyone to guide them in their careers. Research from Columbia University suggests that mentoring can be just as beneficial to the mentor as it is for the mentee.

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Using Technology to Improve The Sharing of Knowledge

Curious Cat

This month the ASQ is asking Influential Voices to discuss methods to aid in sharing knowledge. Manu Vora kicked the discussion off with his post on The Gift of Knowledge Transfer Through Technology. My career has been largely shaped by the pursuit of better ways to communicate.

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Posts from Top Leadership Bloggers

Michael Lee Stallard

Steve Boese of Steve Boese’s HR Technology shows how quickly small acorns can grow into the mighty oaks of an ‘A’ Team in Quick – Send in the ‘B’ Team Michael Lee Stallard entices us to take a break on our tour …er, journey…. Rajesh Setty ‘s ideas flower on Why MANY Smart People Face a Mid-Career Dilemma and How You Can Avoid It.

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

A large high-technology company had established an innovation center in one of their U.S. In India, workers yearned for regular promotions as tangible indicators of their career growth. We’ve also noticed differences in the choices of collaborative technologies. Instead, such rights reside with the team or manager.

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The Benefits of Virtual Mentors

Harvard Business Review

Having a mentor has always helped with professional development and career advancement, but in today’s complex workplace, one mentor alone often won’t do. If you are a knowledge worker, you should use social media tools inside and outside your organization to build your expertise and reputation.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. At EMC, we make up for the staffing shortfall by assigning all our consultants to an “office development” team, such as recruiting, training and onboarding, knowledge management, or social committee.

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Design Your Own Profession

Harvard Business Review

Technologies that connect people to knowledge, services, and one another across the globe have acted as a centrifugal force, spinning functions and authority away from the center toward millions of previously silent and disempowered individuals. Information and communications technology is blowing the old categories into bits.