If you’ve ever run a mentoring program, you’ve probably asked yourself: Isn’t there an easier way to...
Employee wellbeing has plummeted to record lows. According to Gallups, only 50% of U.S. employees ar...
Mentoring programs have become more than a workplace perk—they’re a proven way to elevate profession...
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
Being a manager can be taxing, especially in today’s professional landscape.
According to a recent study by Gallup, employee engagement has dropped to its lowest point in more t...
As a mentoring program administrator, your role goes beyond just creating and implementing the progr...
Mentoring programs play a pivotal role in shaping the academic and professional journey of students....
Mentoring software has emerged as a powerful tool for organizations looking to foster growth, knowle...
There is no disputing the positive impacts of mentoring. It has been an indispensable tool in buildi...
“The more you know, the more you realize you don’t know.” - Aristotle
In the fast-paced and competitive landscape of today's business world, employee engagement stands as...
"AI can handle routine tasks, but it's people who bring the depth of experience, judgment, and the a...
"The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with associates smarter than t...
Mentoring Empowers Mentors and Mentees
The Importance of Mentorship Mentorship plays a crucial role in personal and professional developmen...
Mentoring has been an effective strategy for centuries. In ancient times, Aristotle mentored Alexand...
Creating a Supportive Learning Environment A mentoring program in the workplace creates a supportive...
According to a recent Gallup survey, of the 16 main government agencies, only 4 received positive jo...
Modern industry is tumultuous. Businesses are still recovering from a crippling pandemic. Inflation ...
"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you than you see in yourself and helps ...
According to a 2021 Gallup Poll, 35% of managers reported feeling stressed and burnt out at work “ve...
"Mentoring is a two-way street. While you're helping someone grow, they, in turn, challenge and insp...
The cost of recruiting and training new employees is substantial. Retaining top talent through meani...
"Working in cybersecurity requires staying one step ahead of ever-evolving threats. The constant nee...
"Investing in the development of leaders is not just an option, it is a necessity for the long-term ...
"Technical skills may help you get hired, but soft skills are what will make you succeed and thrive ...
“You never get a second chance to make a first impression. In the business world, this couldn’t be t...
"The business world is no longer about the big beating the small; it's about the fast beating the sl...
70% of Fortune 500 companies utilize mentoring programs. There’s a reason. Mentoring is an extremely...
Mentorship plays a prevalent role in every field from the Arts to Corporate life. Whether it be a fo...
Confidence is built through failure.
The most valuable commodity on the planet is time. From janitors to CEOs...we all have the same 24 h...
"A goal without a plan is just a wish." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Mentoring provides an opportunity for employees to learn from experienced professionals, to grow an...
"If you're going to build a great company, you need to have great people on your side." - Elon Musk
As an HR executive or CEO, you are always on the lookout for ways to improve your team's performance...
As a CEO or HR executive, one of your biggest challenges is ensuring that your organization has the ...
Gallup is the industry leader when it comes to HR data collection and employee trends. They have stu...
“If I have seen farther than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” - Isaac Newton
Companies know the value of engaged employees. Engaged employees bring passion and interest to their...
We have all felt the weight of the pandemic. While many places are opening back up the way we work w...
Like most of you, I’ve been working remotely for close to the past year. It hadn’t hit me as to how ...
U.S. employees are quitting their jobs in droves. The government started tracking the quit rate (the...
In 2021, 57% of employees quit their jobs because they felt disrespected in the workplace (Pew Resea...
Close to one-third of new hires leave their job within the first six months. New hires quitting is e...
Employee turnover reached new highs during the pandemic. People have been leaving their jobs in reco...
"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph...
Being a good worker does not always translate into being a good leader. A good work ethic and track ...
For generations finding the right mentor has been a fundamental part of success in business and in l...
"The best mentor is someone whose footsteps you can follow into your own future." - Unknown
Today, information is accessible to anyone with a smartphone. Google, YouTube, eBooks and social med...
Everyone has their own unique way of communicating, and there is no one-size-fits-all set of guideli...
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his ow...
Mentoring is a valuable tool for professional development in any industry, and government agencies a...
As a manager, one of the most important tasks you have is to ensure that your employees are always g...
Retention rates in the public sector are a cause for concern due to limited budgets, bureaucratic pr...
A formal mentoring program is not only beneficial for employees, but also companies. What many peopl...
*All statistical data pulled from Gallup Report – State of Local and State Government Workers’ Engag...
Remote work is here to stay. Whether employees are fully remote or working in a hybrid environment, ...
"A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you, than you see in yourself, and help...
Mentoring is a valuable experience for both mentors and mentees. It is a relationship built on trust...
Succession planning is an essential process for government agencies that helps ensure a smooth trans...
1. Make Onboarding Awesome
"The greatest gift you can give to someone is the gift of your own development." - Jim Rohn
Falling revenues, major demographic shifts, and rising citizen demands have become the new normal fo...
This writer will offer no political commentary. This piece contains no religious opinion nor does it...
Managing employees in the public sector is different than the private sector. The environment that g...
So you are concerned that Mentoring Software will become another bill added to your expense sheet? W...
We are now over two years into the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic forced most companies to adopt re...
“In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don’t have to know...
Are you thinking about launching a mentoring program, but have no idea where to start? We’ve put tog...
There is surprisingly little useful information out there on how to conduct a job interview and find...
The day is winding down. You’re getting ready for bed and wondering what you accomplished for the da...
We do our best work when we are feeling good and having fun. I’m not suggesting that time at the wor...
The past year has seen work upended, forced into a virtual and remote space as the country dealt wit...
Most of us were thrust into full time remote work over the past twelve months. No one was prepared f...
Mentoring is a key driver of success in any walk of life. Leveraged and used correctly in a large or...
Google has made information readily available to everyone. But it isn’t human and doesn’t replace me...
It doesn’t matter if you are building automobiles or developing software, if your employees are not ...
Many of us have dreamed of working from home. Working from a home office with no commute, no distrac...
Being the leader can be incredibly rewarding. It can also be difficult and feel impossible to do wel...
All the right people are in place. On paper, they are a dream team of talent. The credentials, the s...
Mentoring has found a new place in today’s workplace, government organizations, nonprofits and educa...
2020 brought tremendous change to Americans. There isn’t anyone who didn’t feel the impacts of socia...
Formal mentoring programs are on the rise. 71% of companies in the Forbes 500 offer mentoring progra...
No one obtains success alone. Even the most prominent and self-reliant business owners have mentors ...
Too often mentoring relationships devalue into cheerleading. A mentor gets assigned a mentee and enc...
In today’s world, there are powerful women spanning every level of the corporate ladder from CEOs to...
Mentoring can be an exhilarating experience. When you are assigned a mentee, it’s tempting to not on...
We all have ideas. Some of these ideas, if acted upon could improve company culture, profits and mor...
In March of 2020, the bulk of the United States of America went into a shelter-in-place to slow the ...
Times are uncertain. 2020 has been an unprecedented year for a multitude of reasons which are too nu...
Employees who are engaged show up early, stay late and are passionate about their work. When employe...
No one achieves success overnight with no help, completely on their own. In this digital age, it can...
Success doesn’t come easy.
This morning, I woke up in a rut. There wasn’t anything wrong. Nothing I could put my finger on that...
Keeping employees engaged can be one of the most difficult tasks a company faces. But, if you can pu...
There are over 7 billion people on the planet. Even with so many people around us we often feel alon...
Formal mentoring programs are incredibly powerful tools to boost employee engagement, productivity, ...
Do your employees trust you? Trust is an integral part of human relations inside and outside of the ...
The future of work has arrived. While remote work technologies have been available to companies with...
Mentoring is as old as mankind itself. Knowledge has been passed on from veterans to up and coming y...
“The land of burnout is a place I never want to go back to.” - Arianna Huffington
Every human being has creativity. Some appear to have loads of it while others are endowed with a ti...
“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.” - Bruce Lee
"Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your em...
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays youn...
Are you making it hard for your mentors and mentees to succeed? These mentoring mistakes can ruin a ...
“Mentors, by far, are the most important aspect of business.” - Daymon John
“Social Distancing” is a term that - up until a few months ago - none of had heard of. Now, after mo...
“For every one of us that succeeds, it’s because there’s somebody there to show you the way out.” - ...
Top talent is hard to find. It’s why so many organizations are shelling out so much money to send ou...
“Mentors, by far, are the most important aspect of businesses.” - Daymond John Since humankind has w...
Losing top talent employees can be detrimental to any organization. Large investments may have been ...
HR advice, business advice and mentoring advice is floating around the internet by the truckload. So...
Having a great mentor can make or break your career and dreams. We all brush elbows with great peopl...
Employee burnout is wide-spread and it’s eating away at the productivity of the workforce across the...
Money is a major part of it, but any successful person will tell you that money motivation isn’t eno...
“It is not enough to be busy… The question is: what are we busy about?” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” - Benjamin Franklin
Whether you are a CEO or the lowest guy on the corporate ladder, you have emotions. Sometimes they g...
“We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and divers...
Each boss has an employee. Their relationship is most likely formal and defined by the parameters of...
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” - Albert Einstein
“The human spirit must prevail over technology.” - Albert Einstein Technology was designed by humani...
There’s an old adage that goes: 'You don’t know how much you love her until she’s gone.' Well, the s...
“Maybe at this stage in my career, it’s from the younger generation that I have the most to learn.” ...
Without mentoring, there would be no Apple Computers and many of our great artist and industry leade...
Millennials (ages 24 to 40 in 2020) are now the largest generational workforce in the country. They ...
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” - Steve Jobs “Where do you see yourself in 1...
2020 was expected to see a huge expansion of remote work. And why not? Technology has made remote wo...
Covid-19 has changed corporations forever. Companies are adapting to a remote workforce while strugg...
Covid-19 is changing the way many organizations operate for the foreseeable future. With social dist...
On March 13th, President Trump declared a national emergency and allocated $50 billion in federal fu...
Looking at implementing mentoring software into your business? There are several key points to consi...
Is Your Mentor Program Doomed to Fail? Three Steps to Ensure Success. HR can be tricky. There are so...
The United States has been branded “the land of opportunity.” It carries this title because it has b...
“Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Train people well enough so they can leave. Treat them well enough so they don’t have to.” - Sir Ri...
“To win in the marketplace, you must first win in the workplace.” - Doug Conant, former president an...
Everyone works in the same market, but cultural backgrounds, upbringings, and perspectives can be ve...
Are you making it hard for your mentors and mentees to succeed? These mentoring mistakes can ruin a ...
MENTORING SUCCESS OR FAILURE? CAN WE PREDICT SUCCESS POTENTIAL? Companies typically come to us with ...
Forgetting is common for most people. We take a training class or study some new material and before...
The top issue that is on everyone's mind is how to increase engagement levels. Whether you are a cor...
WANT TO IMPROVE YOUR MENTORING PROGRAM? Three Best Practices From a Mentoring Expert There are three...
Everyone wants to do a good job. Everyone wants to be appreciated. Instead, millions of people go to...
Wisdom Share is a mentoring software company, so naturally we get LOTS of calls from people who are ...
Tip #1: Answer the Unasked Questions A manager or administrator for a mentoring program also wears t...
Are you contemplating a mentoring program for your organization? If so, you’re probably thinking abo...
One approach to finding a mentor is to have a “composite mentor.” If you can’t find one person who e...
You’re trying to find a mentor—the perfect mentor. The problem is, many people you admire or think h...
For all of you that are members on LinkedIn, they are doing a great series right now where they ask ...
Corrie Pelc writes in an article for SkilledUp, "If you find you have been struggling with organizin...
I had the privilege of talking to Dale Thomas Vaughan, aka Mr. Mentoring. Dale has spent a decade le...
What does it take to create happy, long-term, productive employees? Why isn't education enough? A re...
Before the Internet and the advent of mentoring software, it was difficult to connect people from di...
I am sure that many of you are trying to determine if it’s worth it to bite the bullet and invest in...
The whole idea of women and mentoring has been to make progress in the effort to break the glass cei...
Is Poor Mentor Matching Like a Bad Blind Date? You match partners thinking they'll be perfect but th...
I’m thinking about hosting a call-in radio show called “Hey Bob”– where people call in with question...
Earlier this week, we gave a presentation on multigenerational issues in the workplace. HR Toolbox s...
In the course of our work here at Mentor Resources, we interact with several hundred companies a yea...
Every mentor wants to be a Great Mentor – they want the personal benefits of a job well done, the jo...
Here at Mentor Resources we interact with thousands of people who act as mentors in the course of a ...
Dell received the 2012 DiversityInc Special Recognition award for the computer company’s commitment ...
Who would have thought that a Swiss-based pharmaceutical company, would have the best Diversity Tale...
Are your employees the heroes of your organization’s story? We spend a lot of time discussing knowle...
Thank you for visiting the Mentor Resources blog. Thor-Eric Gullikson, one of Europe’s leading exper...
In today’s knowledge economy, a corporation's workforce is its most important asset, as well as one ...
Cisco’s Reverse Mentoring Program had great success, and found five major themes became recurring to...
Does your firm have a mentor program? If so, congratulations! But, if your company does not have a f...
Social Learning or Collaborative Learning has come of age: A radical concept just a few years ago, m...
Forbes has recently published two excellent articles about Millennials in the workplace which EVERY ...
Historically, managers would think of diversity in terms of race, but more recently most of us have ...
In an ideal world, everyone in your firm would instantly have the right answers to every messy chall...
The new year has started - with new plans and new budgets. Beyond the usual questions about mentorin...
Each year, business leaders are challenged to develop and revise strategic plans for their company –...
A few years back, Clark Quinn coined the term, SlowLearning. Those responsible for corporate trainin...
So you’re thinking about starting a Mentor Program. You’ve heard about them, and read a few articles...
Here’s a statistic that blew me away: Corporate Training Budgets add up to a $50 billion industry. 5...
Eleanor demonstrated leadership in the Progressive and Suffrage Movements, but in many ways her lead...
Have you ever been on a blind date? Most mentor programs match people based on skills, level in the ...
Many of us have New Years Resolutions around becoming a better manager or a "good boss." So here ano...
Our December 18th blog covered the maturation process where an informal Affinity Group transitions t...
Most managers want to be more effective at managing, and most talent development professionals alrea...
This blog has the subheading, Lessons Learned at the Out and Equal Conference, in Los Angeles. At th...
We get many questions on eMentoring and, as the second largest provider of Mentoring Software to the...
Coaching and mentoring partnerships which are successful share some common traits. In this blog, we ...
We recently had an opportunity to catch up with Jan Wilson, MA, SPHR-CA, GPHR of Vital Assets. Jan h...
Who is Mentor Resources? We are a consulting firm with a variety of tools and training for talent de...
President Bill Clinton was the keynote speaker at the Learning 2011 Conference in November. He spoke...
GE Healthcare’s Chief Learning Officer believes Talent Development is changing. Bob Cancalosi, GE He...