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Mentoring or Coaching: What’s Best for Your Company?

CLO Magazine

Mentoring and coaching strategies translate to better employee engagement and retention. But it pays to know the key differences between coaching and mentoring to implement an effective program. There is a difference between coaching and mentoring.

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John Seeley Brown Keynote at #ASTD2013

Learning Visions

Building a community of peer-mentors. Using simple social software to create a network of practice or a community of practice. The CLO will need to become the Chief Organizational Architecture. How can you make Mentorship and Reverse Mentorship work together? The kids learn from the elders, the elders learn from the kids.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

You recently read a compelling argument that people in knowledge organizations learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. Social business is the flavor of the day. Social network – for online conversation, connecting with people, and all of the above functions.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

This appears in the August 2012 CLO magazine. Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. Social software facilitates conversation. Serving enterprise customers. They changed the title on me.). 70% experiential, 20% coaching, 10% formal.

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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

You probably read a compelling argument recently that people in knowledge organizations learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches and mentors. Several social network suite vendors have offered us incredibly deep discounts if we make up our minds in the next two days.

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Come Together

Jay Cross

Expertise locators connect workers to people with answers; social software connects them with friends and colleagues. Every participant in the career advisor program has at least one mentor. Cheap, simple conferencing tools let workers meet wherever there’s an online connection. The goal is to create constant teaching moments.

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Is There a Better Way to Social Learning?

Xyleme

Coaches, mentors, online buddies need to coexist within the wiki’s, blogs, discussion forums, webcam meetings, online presence, etc. This is a list of roughly the top 35 or so social media vendors providing a broad core set of social media capabilities. These sound a lot like the definition of Social Learning.