Rose E. Bender, my mother.
My Mother, My Mentor
Mother’s Day 2016, I found myself thinking about my mother, who passed away two years ago, this week. I miss talking with her. For more than 25 years, we used…
Mentoring Partners Fully Engaged?
You’ve given them the tools, are they using them? Do they meet regularly? Are they producing the anticipated results? Is your program a showcase for excellence? If your answers to…
The 6th Strategy for Effective Mentoring
Successful professional mentoring programs make your people more productive and more profitable. Recently I wrote about five key strategies you can use to strengthen your mentoring program: Question – What…
Why You Should Be A Mentor
During a conversation with Stephanie Burns, founder of ChicCEO.com, she asked me if I had any compelling statistics about mentoring. When I told her that mentors can make an average…
Raise Your Expectations and Your Mentoring Program Will Blossom
For decades, psychologists have been researching what they call the "Pygmalion effect": how one person’s expectations of another can become a self-fulfilling prophesy. This is as important in the realm…
Women & the Mentorship-Sponsorship Combo: The Fuel Your Career Needs
Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, Indra Nooyi, Tina Fey and I all had mentors who dramatically influenced our careers. In fact, we can’t imagine how we would have gotten where we…
You Can Choose Your Ideal Mentoring Partner
Choosing your ideal mentoring partner! Ah, it sounds like such a lofty goal. Is it even possible? The answer is YES! But it's not about choosing the ideal mentor or…
Youth Mentoring Is Where I Got My Start
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.
The Difference Between Mentoring & Coaching
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.”
“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.