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Video: The power of mentoring programs

CLO Magazine

As employers grapple with today’s highly competitive talent marketplace, mentoring has risen to the top of the list of effective tools to leverage in both onboarding and learning and development, according to the University of Phoenix’s 2023 Career Optimism Index.

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How women can build powerful mentoring relationships

CLO Magazine

After much thought and reflection, I realized (and was helped to realize by my own network) there was value in sharing these proven approaches. In this column, I’ll share my thoughts and those of other business leaders on how women can successfully develop mentoring relationships. Mentors are all around us’. Get many.”.

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Meet the CLO Advisory Board: David DeFilippo

CLO Magazine

DeFilippo has been in senior talent management and development for more than 25 years, and has previously served in numerous learning leader roles , including CLO for BNY Mellon and also for Suffolk Construction. CLO: What was your first official job in learning and development? One is networking with colleagues.

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Why it’s time to throw out old upskilling playbooks

CLO Magazine

People can do projects all day but involving them to jointly solve a problem with a mentor or team can be the best skill builder of all. During my time leading UScellular’s IT organization, I helped foster an emerging leaders program for associates to develop leadership skills and make the jump from individual contributor to leader of people.

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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.

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It’s time to discuss the problem with ‘owning your own development’

CLO Magazine

In Guild Education’s American Worker Survey , about half of all workers (47 percent) say that not having the right experience, the right education or access to training programs has held back their careers, but this is even higher for Black workers (51 percent) and is much higher for Hispanic workers (60 percent).

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The discomfort of learning

CLO Magazine

Building a diverse support team of network s , which includes mentors and sponsors. It is a multi-faceted, multiplayer process involving the woman’s direct manager, mentors, networks and sponsors as well as developmental opportunities. Seeking out helpful feedback from leaders.