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Concepts in Mentoring Communication - Click To Read Article
Being able to connect ius essential to undertaking good mentoring. Along with active listening and good feedback, communication is where lessons are exchanged between mentor and mentee. Both play off each other and both learn.

Why even consider a Mentoring Program for Your Business - Click To Read Article
The benefits for a good mentoring program in a business include better retention, improved recruitment of talent, getting the best for promotion and succession and rewarding exceptional performance. Other issues include planning for talent deversity. Mentors make better leaders, supervisors have better teams and mentees gain directly. Think about it.

Mentors as Advocates Champions and Challengers - Click To Read Article
An aspect of the mentoring relationship that is often missed. If you need expert help yourself in this regard then read 'The Prince' by Machiavelli.

Understanding the Role of Mentor - Click To Read Article
Mentoring is different from coaching. Business-mentoring is different from executive-coaching. Separating the two allow for mentoring ot be a 'step-up' to a higher level of knowledge exchange. Really robust experiential exchange is the realm of mentors.

The Role of the Business Mentor - Click To Read Article
Business-mentor - being about business, knowing business, being oriented to business outcomes, having a focus on performance that drive business results. Hard nosed stuff and requiring lots of experience and generosity of spirit.

Developing Intuition in DecisionMaking - Click To Read Article
Gut-feel for important decisions? Get away! No, seriously it works. A most powerful skill to have, develop and nurture. As we get more experience part of our thinking changes and gives us another way to test decisions.

Who wants to Mentor anyway - Click To Read Article
Well not everyone. It takes time, patience and a real willingness to be challenging without dominating, doing the mentees job by proxy or creating dependence. Not all of us are teachers. If we can't listen well, we cannot be a good mentors either. How do you measure up?

Internal vs External Mentoring - Click To Read Article
So what are some of the differences? Here is a short list to think about. There are more and they are most often specific to the business environment. What are yours?

Gains from Mentoring Tangibles and Intangibles - Click To Read Article
So you don't think mentoring has real bankable benefits - read these and weep.

Beyond the Stress Response – Managing Mentee Thinking to Reduce Stress - Click To Read Article
Being aware of the impact of stress on your mentee, acknowledging stress as a motivator and de-motivator and having simple techniques to assist mentees is a valid part of good mentoring. This article examines some of the issues.





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