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  • Gain Soft Skills While Mentoring

    Gain Soft Skills While Mentoring

    As more and more of our lives become digital, distanced, and distracted, I find it telling that many HR folks have been talking a lot about soft skills—or the lack thereof within their employee populations. We’re all obsessed with being connected, but we don’t seem to do so well when it comes to actually connecting. Consequently, soft skills are the […]

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  • The Art and Science of Leading an Online Mentoring Group

    The Art and Science of Leading an Online Mentoring Group

    No two mentoring relationships are the same. From traditional mentoring to reverse mentoring to group mentoring, the interactions and outcomes can vary based on the people involved, the goals they want to achieve, and the overall structure of the relationship. What Does An Online Mentoring Group Look Like? Mentoring groups are a unique take on the traditional view of mentoring; […]

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  • 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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  • 5 Mentoring Program Pitfalls

    5 Mentoring Program Pitfalls

    Tips for More Successful Business Mentoring Programs Mentoring has the potential to be life-changing for individuals.  It can also be a tremendously impactful practice that can significantly move the needle on core organizational measures (e.g., employee engagement, retention, and speed to productivity).  This is why many organizations turn to us: for our business mentoring software and expertise. Yet, even given the positive results […]

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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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  • How Do I Run a Successful Mentoring Pilot?

    How Do I Run a Successful Mentoring Pilot?

    7 Tips to Make Your Mentoring Pilot Soar Being in the mentoring solution business, I will occasionally get a question around how to run an effective pilot leveraging mentoring software. I’ve certainly seen successes and failures over the years. Some clients are open to our suggestions and are willing to learn from our experience, while others come with a set […]

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  • Mentoring Is More than the Match

    Mentoring Is More than the Match

    Start Here When Designing a Professional Mentoring Program I’ve been heavily involved in helping clients successfully launch and grow mentoring programs for more than a dozen years now. Simply stated: It’s what I do. As I’m sure you can imagine, over those 12-plus years, I have learned numerous lessons around what works, and equally—if not more—important, what doesn’t work. One such […]

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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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