Mentoring Partners Fully Engaged?

You’ve given them the tools, are they using them? Do they meet regularly? Are they producing the anticipated results? Is your program a showcase for excellence? If your answers to…

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The 6th Strategy for Effective Mentoring

Successful professional mentoring programs make your people more productive and more profitable. Recently I wrote about five key strategies you can use to strengthen your mentoring program: Question – What…

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Raise Your Expectations and Your Mentoring Program Will Blossom

For decades, psychologists have been researching what they call the "Pygmalion effect":  how one person’s expectations of another can become a self-fulfilling prophesy. This is as important in the realm…

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Women & the Mentorship-Sponsorship Combo: The Fuel Your Career Needs

Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, Indra Nooyi, Tina Fey and I all had mentors who dramatically influenced our careers. In fact, we can’t imagine how we would have gotten where we…

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“Effective mentoring for your star performers will create new possibilities and levels of performance that will positively impact the bottom line.”

“Effective mentoring for your star performers will create new possibilities and levels of performance that will positively impact the bottom line.” From my interview at MO.com - How I started Odyssey Mentoring & Leadership, my take on the distinction between competent and great leadership and I shared one of the mentoring stories from my upcoming book, "Aspire to Go Higher: Get a Mentor, Be A Mentor," due out at the end of August.

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