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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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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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The Value in Cross-Generational Mentoring

CLO Magazine

Working within a mentoring relationship is a powerful way for individuals to grow their careers. Whether young people are learning from seasoned pros, or career achievers are passing along their wisdom, mentoring offers a host of benefits: increased knowledge, new skills, elevated energy levels and career satisfaction.

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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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Mentoring Without Barriers

CLO Magazine

Traditional mentoring was one older expert grooming a younger one for a specific role. Technological influences, millennials and a global workforce have all left their mark on the practice, helping to create a new mindset about what mentoring is today. People meet online, in groups and possibly never in person.

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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).