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Author: Laura Francis

  • How Do I Design a Mentoring Program?

    How Do I Design a Mentoring Program?

    Ideas for Starting a Business Mentoring Program With the rise in popularity of mentoring, talent professionals are being tasked with creating mentoring programs that involve more participants and align with current business needs.  This is no small challenge!  We hear from people every day who need to start or expand a mentoring program, but who aren’t sure of what steps […]

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  • Virtual Mentoring in the Age of Social Distancing

    Virtual Mentoring in the Age of Social Distancing

    How Do I Mentor Someone When Working from Home? The COVID-19 global pandemic has rocked us all. A vast majority of us are now working from home and social distancing. We’re trying to figure out how to remotely manage a team, how to professionally present ourselves to our coworkers while our kids scream in the background, how to homeschool while […]

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  • Modern Mentoring 2.0: The New Way to Run Mentoring Programs

    Modern Mentoring 2.0: The New Way to Run Mentoring Programs

    Corporate Mentoring Programs at Work Randy Emelo’s 2015 book Modern Mentoring took the HR world by storm and quickly became a top seller for publisher ATD Press.  In this revolutionary tome, Emelo provides ideas on how organizations can bring a fresh approach to mentoring that is better suited to today’s technologically focused work world, and he outlines how business mentoring programs can […]

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  • How to Mentor Introverts

    How to Mentor Introverts

    3 Tips for Mentoring Program Administrators Networking is not an easy thing to do, and for some people, just the thought of it can make them break out into a cold sweat. Yet, building up your mentoring network can be invaluable and critical to your success at work and in your overarching career. I’ve built up a professional network, as […]

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  • How to Set Priorities in Mentoring Relationships

    How to Set Priorities in Mentoring Relationships

    Too Many Distractions Lead to Unfocused Efforts In this always-on, always-connected world we live in today, it can be difficult to tune out the noise and distractions that bombard us and vie for our attention. It can also be hard, if not nearly impossible, to shut off our devices and truly step away from work. I’ve noticed recently that my […]

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  • What Does Success Look Like to You?

    What Does Success Look Like to You?

    Stop Comparing Yourself to Others We spend a lot of time in our lives competing with others, trying to live up to someone else’s standards, pushing ourselves to outdo those around us. We need to get that next promotion, secure that bigger office, score that huge raise, buy that enormous house, drive that hot new car. But do we really? […]

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  • The Mentoring Journey

    The Mentoring Journey

    How Mentoring Can Change Your Life One step forward, two steps back.  That is how life feels some days.  A few years ago, my son had to have major hip surgery and spend six weeks in a double hip spica (Google it). Even though those six weeks felt unimaginably difficult, once he was finally out of his casts came the […]

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  • Three Factors for Better Communication in Mentoring

    Three Factors for Better Communication in Mentoring

    Tips for Mentees and Mentors for Better Dialogue Mentoring can be a truly transformational process for the individuals involved.  It can impact a person’s skill, ability, or career direction, which in turn can change their life.  Mentoring program administrators and leaders can have a hand in these transformative powers by helping to build a sense of belonging and community through […]

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  • 4 Phrases You Should Use in Mentoring

    4 Phrases You Should Use in Mentoring

    Include This in Mentoring Training At their core, mentoring relationships are about people. We connect with one another, we learn from one another, we support one another, and we grow because of our interactions with one another. Without that human element, mentoring loses its very essence. Most people would agree that we need to treat our mentees, mentors, learners, advisors, […]

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