The extraordinary results of youth mentoring should be shouted from the roof-tops. Millions of young people’s lives have been transformed by caring adults who took a child or teen under their wing and showed them someone cared about them and their future. I was one of those kids.
What makes any mentoring program successful, no matter the size of your company, is this: “A mentorship program needs to have a path to leadership or advancement for the mentees.”
I have talked about this distinction so often. In a February 2012 posting on Talent Management, writer Valerie Pelan summarizes the work of authors Mark David Nevins and Stephen A.
“Effective mentoring for your star performers will create new possibilities and levels of performance that will positively impact the bottom line.” From my interview at MO.com – How I started Odyssey Mentoring & Leadership, my take on the distinction between competent and great leadership and I shared one of the mentoring stories from my upcoming book, “Aspire to Go Higher: Get a Mentor, Be A Mentor,” due out at the end of August.
Paying it forward pays back: For both mentees and mentors, we see tangible career advancement. Most exciting is that for mentors and sponsors we see serious compensation growth — up to $25,075 in additional compensation.
“Women have been over-delivering for decades and watching men who do less consistently be given more opportunities for advancement,” is what I told writer Bob Calendra of Human Resource Executive
Check out my latest interview at MO.com http://www.mo.com/Susan-Bender-Phelps-Odyssey-Mentoring – It will give you great insight into what really lights us up about what our business can do to help your
Recently I was asked if sponsorship was the new mentoring. My answer is an emphatic NO! In my experience mentorship and sponsorship are very distinct. And I believe the most
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
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