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Best PracticesWhat is a Career Lattice?Imagine a typical workplace scenario: Sonya has had the same job for three years. Sonya likes her company and is successful in her current role, but has recently found herself struggling to stay engaged and motivated by her daily tasks. A traditional response to Sonya’s dilemma might be that she either needs to move up…
Best PracticesHow to Build a Useful Mentorship SurveySo you’re considering starting a new mentoring program. That’s fantastic! But in order to make it truly successful, it’s important to survey and evaluate your mentoring program needs. For example, how would your organization use mentoring most effectively? How can you ensure participants get what they want out of it? You can make some reasonable guesses…
Best PracticesHow to Set & Measure Mentoring Program ObjectivesTo harness ongoing support for your program, measuring mentoring success is key. Conducting a top-down mentoring program evaluation should include organizational objectives, key performance indicators (KPIs), targets, and segments. In order to understand the true ROI of mentoring, you must plan, design and measure with intention. First, consider your mentoring initiative in the context of…
Best PracticesEmployee Development Plans: Importance and ExamplesThe landscape of today’s workplace isn’t what it was twenty years ago. It’s not even what it was twenty minutes ago – today’s environment is both fast-paced and competitive. Ninety-one percent of millennials (born between 1977 and 1997) expect to stay in a job for fewer than three years. That makes it all the more…
Best PracticesHow to Be a Good MentorMentoring can be incredibly rewarding but requires dedication, preparation and a genuine desire to help others succeed. Learning how to be a good mentor can make all the difference in providing effective guidance. Many of us can identify someone who mentored us during a pivotal time—whether at work, in school or in life. Mentorship, both…
Best PracticesHow Diversity Mentoring Programs Help OrganizationsFor many companies, a diverse workplace is an important part of encouraging business objectives such as employee engagement, improving retention and breaking down silos in the workplace. A Deloitte survey found 39 percent of respondents would leave their current organization for a more inclusive one. Diversity is important – but are HR professionals managing their…
Best PracticesModern Mentoring: Mentoring CirclesBy now, you’ve likely heard that mentoring is a big deal. Why, you ask? Well, for starters, it engages employees. Among other things, retention is 25 percent higher for employees who have engaged in company-sponsored mentoring (Deloitte Research Brief, 2012). So it’s no wonder that organizations across all industries and sizes are jumping on the…
Best PracticesHow Software Can Help Your Onboarding GoalsWhen it comes to making your onboarding program strategic and effective to meet your hr goals, you might have already added collaborative learning and extended the program time frame. Great job – you’re on your way to an improved program. But what should your next steps be? Here’s the thing – manually running your onboarding program…
Best PracticesGroup Mentoring Guide: Benefits, Tips and How to ImplementWhat are Group Mentoring Programs? Group mentoring is when one or more mentors guide and support a small group of mentees. This approach uses the mentors’ combined experience to help several people at once and build a sense of community. It is often used in academic settings, corporate environments and professional development programs. For organizations…
Best Practices10 Tips For Starting a Business School Mentoring ProgramYou may have decided to start a mentoring program for your business school, but now comes the hard part—planning it in a way that ensures maximum success. Where should you start and how should you start? Luckily, we’ve collected our top 10 tips from our program-planning experts. Read on to find out our recommended best…
Best PracticesHow Informal Talent Development Programs Can Produce Impactful Leadership for OrganizationsMost employees evaluate several factors before starting a new position at a company: Will the work be relevant to career aspirations? Does the company provide a competitive salary? Are there opportunities for growth? In order to successfully recruit and retain these employees for development into future leaders, it’s important to adopt a “hire to retire”…
Best PracticesCrop of the Season: Employers Eyeing Millennial Graduates for HireFor human resource recruiters and employers, the months of May and June bring excitement with the new flood of millennial graduates to pick from; bright, freshly primed from their formal studies, technology advocates, and ready to begin a new chapter in their lives. As the festivities following graduation die down, many graduates immediately jump onboard…