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		<title>New Study: Mentoring can build great leaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If effective leaders can be made, what is the best way to make them? A first-of-its-kind study suggests an answer writes Steve Smith of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in a web article announcing the findings of a recent field experiment on mentoring (http://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/todayatunl/710/4275). According to Smith, researchers found that pairing a seasoned pro with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mentoring for Competitive Advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am so delighted to share this interview of me by Tom Cox, a truly talented consultant, speaker and blog radio host. I got to tell my story, how I became involved with mentoring and explain how what we do gives companies a competitive advantage by engaging employees at a much higher level. That means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reverse Mentoring:  A New Take on Bridging the Generation Gap at Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reverse Mentoring: younger employees are being tapped to help senior executives learn new skills. ]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Hear Me Now&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leslie Truex, author of the Work At Home Bible, interviewed Susan Bender Phelps, CEO, of Odyssey Mentoring and Leadership for an audio podcast on her website www.Work-At-HomeSuccess.com this week. You&#8217;ll learn how she started Odyssey Mentoring and Leadership and hear why mentoring skills and mentoring are so critical for professional development, employee engagement and productivity: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.J. accent is the most hated by HR professionals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I want to share this article from The Star Ledger because they interviewed me. Though I really grew up on Long Island &#8211; it is a true story. Of course, if you are mentoring someone with a very pronounced regional accent &#8211; this might be helpful, too. By Lee Miller/The Star-Ledger &#8211; Published: Sunday, July [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Rules of Mentoring For Finding A Mentor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When your organization doesn&#8217;t have a formal mentoring program, or you haven&#8217;t been invited to participate, you can still benefit from mentoring. The difference is, you&#8217;ll have to find one on your own. How you can do that has changed, says Susan Balcom Walton, M.A., APR, associate professor of public relations at Brigham Young University, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Engagement as a Measure of Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An actively engaged employee is a productive member of your organization...But, according to a 2010 survey by global consulting firm BlessingWhite, only 31 percent of the global work force is actively engaged...This is important because employees who aren’t engaged add to turn over and that costs you.]]></description>
		<link>http://odysseymentoring.com/news/employee-engagement-as-a-measure-of-success/</link>
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		<title>IT leaders urged to transform mentoring styles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mentoring employees is no longer just a case of coaching, life skills, techniques, capabilities and experiential sharing, but also driving transformational change, says writer Chloe Herrick, Computerworld &#8211; Australia. She reports that IT leaders are being advised to change their approach to mentoring programs to focus not just on the individual, but instead on maximising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://odysseymentoring.com/news/it-leaders-urged-to-transform-mentoring-styles/</link>
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		<title>Benefits of Professional Mentoring for Women in Academia Affirmed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just love it when research proves I am on the right track. “The potential benefits of academic mentoring for women are important,” say researchers who conducted a pilot study at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Forty-six women academics were matched 1:1 or 2:1 with more senior academic mentors. At the end of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://odysseymentoring.com/news/benefits-of-professional-mentoring-for-women-in-academia-affirmed/</link>
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		<title>Mentoring For a Competitive Advantage</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the tools you use to maximize productivity and talent development is high-quality training. Great training can give you an initial bump in productivity of about 33 percent. Most executives I talk to say, “I’ll take it.”

But can you sustain that bump or exceed it over the long-term? The answer is YES! This is where a structured and effective mentoring program can really make the difference. Here’s how:]]></description>
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