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Manager, mentor or coach? Help! We need some distinctions!

CLO Magazine

What is the difference between a leader, a manager, a coach and a mentor? Worse, the words leader , manager , coach and mentor are often used interchangeably. Others are telling their managers to mentor their people. Mentoring is used to express any number of activities, most of which are undefined.

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Maneuver Mentoring Obstacles

CLO Magazine

In organizations across the country, mentoring programs are acknowledged to benefit both talented employees and their managers, adding millions of dollars to the bottom line. In fact, research consistently shows that mentoring provides pivotal developmental relationships that function as the backbone for organizational improvement.

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Top 10 Types of Employee Training Methods

Infopro Learning

Social and Collaborative Training Social and Collaborative training allows employees to learn from each other by sharing their knowledge and expertise. They observe, imitate, and model the behavior of others to learn new things. Employees learn by observing their mentor’s actions in real-time.

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Get on board with reverse mentoring

CLO Magazine

One such practice is to encourage and support reverse mentoring and incorporate it as a norm within your organizational culture. What is reverse mentoring? Reverse mentoring is the same concept but often featuring a younger employee imparting know-how and improved methods to an older, perhaps more workplace-experienced worker.

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4 Learning Theories Every Online Educator Should Know

LearnDash

They usually view themselves as subject matter experts —they know their area very well, and are starting an online course to share their expertise with others who are interested in learning it. Behaviorism: Learning is a product of stimulus and reinforcement. Typically, cognitivism is presented as the opposite of behaviorism.

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Creating a Mentoring Culture: A Conversation with Author Lois Zachary

Chronus

Lois Zachary is an internationally recognized expert in the field of mentoring. As part of our Author Series during the Chronus Summer Reading Book Giveaway, we asked her to provide advice to organizations who are planning a mentoring program. Q: What is the value of mentoring to an organization? There are no shortcuts.

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Fewer Mentors, Bigger Problems

CLO Magazine

A 2018 survey from the LeanIn Foundation and SurveyMonkey found that nearly half of male managers felt uncomfortable participating in a common work activity with a woman, such as mentoring, working alone or socializing together. That means about 1 in 6 male managers would hesitate to mentor a woman. Self-Imposed Fear.