Mentoring

Articles about mentoring.

Powerful and cost-effective

Mentoring is arguably one of the most powerful and cost-effective ways of helping people expand and achieve their aspirations. There is also strong evidence that it is a very effective means to retaining talent in organisations, and to create and sustain desired corporate culture. It also offers one of the highest returns on investment in

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1 st International Mentoring Conference

This first EMCC International Mentoring Conference brings together a wide range of expertise from multiple sectors and across countries. Its aim is to showcase good practice, along with emerging themes and applications, with a view to making mentoring programmes and relationships even more impactful. The conference will also be a great place to explore the

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4 Ways to Succeed (part 2)

1. Develop a coherence of mentoring practice within your organization. Whether it is informal or formal mentoring, group or individual mentoring, on site or virtual mentoring, clarify and agree on a robust definition. Communicate and reinforce that definition so it cascades down into the organization. No matter what form mentoring takes in your organization, it is your definition

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CONFERENCE: PROFESSIONAL CONVERSATIONS | EVIDENCE BASED COACHING AND MENTORING

EMCC Nordic conference 21.-22. Sept 2015 in Oslo The event is managed by EMCC Norway with the support of EMCC in Denmark, Finland and Sweden: plus the Swedish Coaching Psychologists Group (Coachande Psykologer). The program is geared towards practitioners (incl. psychologists) who are committed to evidence based practices and actively involved in mentoring and/or coaching.

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Being a good coach is it the same as being a non-directive coach?

In my mentoring sessions I some time feel that giving advice or almost instructive, is the right way to go, but other feels that is wrong. And for coaching is also the same, when you are talking about directive and non-directive coaching. Coach training programmes usually focus strongly on teaching the skills of non-directive coaching.

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Speed Mentoring

        In the search for mentoring stuff on internet I came across speed mentoring which is a method for individuals to receive information from one or more mentors in a time-controlled environment. Modeled after the ‘Speed Dating’ concept, both parties are provided the opportunity to share knowledge and experiences. Mentees benefit from the

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Flash Mentoring

In my over 25 years in business life and over 10 years within mentoring I have had the opportunity to talk to a lot of people. Sometimes itś for only one time and sometimes more, but I never know that I was doing Flash Mentoring… Flash Mentoring is defined as a one-time meeting or discussion that enables

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