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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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What's on Your Social Wish List?

CLO Magazine

Front-running companies are installing social networks such as Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, SharePoint, Ideo and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. You could deliver a much bigger bang for your training buck by greasing the skids to make experiential learning more systematic, coached and attractive.

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The Other 90% of Learning

Jay Cross

Knowledge workers learn three to four times as much from experience as from interaction with bosses, coaches, and mentors. 70% experiential, 20% coaching, 10% formal. Increase the effectiveness of coaching (the 20%) by recognizing the vital role of managers and supervisors. Social software facilitates conversation.

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Your social wishlist

Jay Cross

Front-running companies are installing social networks like Chatter, Jive, Connections, Socialcast, Yammer, Socialtext, Sharepoint, Ideo, and HootSuite like there’s no tomorrow. You could deliver a much bigger bang for your training buck by greasing the skids to make experiential learning more systematic, coached, and attractive.

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GE TV: Elliott Masie on the Future of Learning Technologies

Growth Engineering

But there’s been this false assumption that if I’m teaching a group of eight people something like money laundering detection in a bank, that then if I put them on Jive or Yammer or SharePoint, that something magical is going to happen. But it’s not defining it as time on Jive. And I think that’s naïve. Oh, hugely!

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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. In most organizations, social learning initiatives will be driven outside L&D Back in April, I had the opportunity to chat with Ben Kiker , the Chief Marketing Officer at Jive Software at the time.