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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. Desired outcomes: What should program results be?

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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. And they learn about twice as much from those conversations with others in classrooms and formal learning programs.

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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. They learn about twice as much from those conversations compared to structured courses and programs. Social software facilitates conversation. They changed the title on me.).

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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. And they learn about twice as much from those conversations with others from in classrooms and formal learning programs.

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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.