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Mentoring meets the Metaverse

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Mentoring has been a best practice in business for decades, as soon as researchers proved that employees with mentors were more successful at work than those without. Their findings were: A mentor helps their mentee gain clarity on career goals, develop leadership skills, clarify values and leverage their talents.

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Improve Management Skills with Mentoring

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Improve management skills with mentoring With countless articles, books, and podcasts dedicated to tips on how to deal with bad bosses, strict micro-managers, and toxic workplaces, it seems like the corporate world is plagued with bad managers. How can mentoring enhance management skills? What are management skills?

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Manager, mentor or coach? Help! We need some distinctions!

CLO Magazine

What is the difference between a leader, a manager, a coach and a mentor? Worse, the words leader , manager , coach and mentor are often used interchangeably. Others are telling their managers to mentor their people. Mentoring is used to express any number of activities, most of which are undefined.

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Mentor Training: Equip Mentors with the Skills They Need

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Mentoring is an age-old practice that has gained new relevance—and organizational support—in today’s workplace. However, programs often fail to realize their full benefits because mentors and mentees aren’t trained. What is a Mentor Training Program? Why Do Mentors and Mentees Need Training?

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Can Reverse Mentoring Programs Build Inclusive Workplaces?

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Creating an inclusive workplace culture has evolved from a “nice to have” to a business imperative for many business leaders, according to researchers from The Wharton School. Decades of research have shown that unconscious bias has a real-world negative impact on fairness and diversity in hiring and many other domains.

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Why Mentoring Supports Employee Wellbeing and Mental Health

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So far, research and anecdotal evidence have shown that a hybrid workplace can negatively impact the wellbeing of employees. Four Ways Mentoring Improves Employee Wellbeing. Implementing a mentoring program is one of them. Establishing a mentoring program is also a great way to provide flexibility to your employees.

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Unleash the Potential of Peer-to-Peer Mentoring

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Peer mentoring matches mentors and mentees with similar job titles, backgrounds, or levels of experience. Mentor and mentee are likely to share common challenges and goals, which enables them to relate to one another on a level that other mentorship pairs cannot. Mentors and mentees benefit from peer mentoring.