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Turn Mentoring Conversations into Actions

Your mentoring conversations are critical to your success. Without good dialogue, your mentoring relationship could lack focus, intent, and follow-through. Don’t let your mentoring relationship suffer!
Here are tips from River on how to get more from your mentoring conversations. …

By Maren Gonzales
Maren Gonzales Communications Associate
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Coaching Vs. Mentoring: Do you know the difference?

Contrary to popular belief, there’s a difference between coaching and mentoring. And you, as a front line leader, a supervisor or manager, need to know what it is. What does mentoring look like within an organization? Many organizations want to …

By Maren Gonzales
Maren Gonzales Communications Associate
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The 6 C’s to Successful Mentorship

The mentor/mentee relationship is symbiotic in nature. The qualities and attributes in both mentees and mentors are synonymous. When mentorship is approached from a holistic lens, it has the power to build social capital and unlock human potential. Great educators have …

By Maren Gonzales
Maren Gonzales Communications Associate
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Women L.E.A.D. Toastmasters: Becoming an Effective Mentor

Choose Mentees Carefully   

A mentee should be curious, organized, efficient, responsible, and engaged. Sometimes mentors can even consider testing mentees on their responsiveness. My mentor asked me to watch four TEDTalks, listen to one podcast, attend a workshop, and read …

By Maren Gonzales
Maren Gonzales Communications Associate
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Here to Help: How to be a Better Mentor (At Work)

Article by Larry Fast for “Industry Week” Aug, 2020 Great mentors along the way can put a high-potential person’s career on a rocket ship to their full potential. Poor mentors can slow a high-potential’s progress and stunt their growth. That’s …

By Maren Gonzales
Maren Gonzales Communications Associate
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7 Tips About How to Mentor Someone

For people who might be mentoring someone for the first time, you may be wondering about how to start or what to do to help your mentee. Here are seven ideas to help you as you begin working with them …

By Maren Gonzales
Maren Gonzales Communications Associate
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What The Best Mentors Do

Being a mentor doesn’t necessarily mean giving advice. As the following article outlines, the best mentors act as a source of ideas and light when confronting serious personal and professional decisions and hurdles.

“The next practice of good mentors is …

By Maren Gonzales
Maren Gonzales Communications Associate
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