The Mentoring Millenium - the Corporate tool for 2021
Any CEO or manager truly interested in change and/or improving workplace performance must also become deeply committed to the Mentoring process. In fact, Mentoring is fast becoming the most efficient and cost-effective way for delivering corporate outcomes and achieving corporate growth. It enables more effective management whist assisting the ease of enacting, and speed of, strategic moves.

Build a Mentoring Culture
What does it take to develop people? More than writing “equal opportunity” into your organization’s mission statement. More than sending someone to a training class. More than hard work on the part of employees. What development does take is people who are willing to listen and help their colleagues. Development takes coaches, guides and advocates. People development needs mentors.

Why Mentoring Works
Organizations are only as successful as the men and women who make them work. So, if we care about our organizations and our people, we have to share our knowledge of the organizational culture; we have to share our wisdom; we have to mentor.

Inside Intel's Mentoring Movement
Forget everything that you've ever learned about mentoring, especially the idea of hitching your wagon to a rising star. Here's how Intel is reinventing the old approach to mentoring to teach, inspire, and reconnect its employees.

Mentoring and Baby Boomers
Baby boomers play a key role in mentoring the next generations of employees. Utilize baby boomers to mentor because of the wealth of knowledge older workers have acquired. Younger workers will benefit immensely from mentoring. Mentoring will jump start careers and help the next generation of workers succeed more quickly.

Why Mentor? Mentoring Is a Strategic Business Imperative
Today, in our love affair with what's new, what's cutting edge, and what's technologically cool, it's easy to forget that knowledge also comes with experience. It may require a few hours of e-training or a semester-long course to learn how an energy pump operates, but it takes years and years of experience to recognize the sounds of a pump that is not operating properly. The only way to shorten that learning cycle is to have someone with more experience help to accelerate learning.

What makes mentoring successful?
Interested in more ways to make mentoring effective in your organization? These ideas will help.

Following Odysseus' Lead - Good mentoring, whether formal or informal, strengthens a company's talent
CIOs are expected to contribute significant growth and productivity gains to support their businesses and provide a competitive edge. But with IT spending down, we can't just throw expensive technology at problems like we used to.

Mentoring and Diversity
Addresses mentor/mentee relationships in which the two parties are different in key ways, and suggests best practices.

Be Strategic about Mentoring (Part I)
New approaches for developing an overall strategy for mentoring while making wise use of your time and resources.

Be Strategic about Mentoring (Part II)
Six final considerations if you decide to add a planned mentoring component: organizational support, potential champion, positioning, level of formality, delivery modes and roadblocks.

Getting a Mentoring Program Off the Ground
Ideas from an experienced executive consultant on launching a mentoring initiative successfully.

Improving an Existing Program
Ideas from an experienced executive consultant on making your mentoring initiative better.

Time to Evaluate
Evaluation, whether formal or informal, is critical to a successful mentoring initiative. Some ideas on how to do it well.

Mentoring Best Practices
Strategies that successful mentoring organizations use to achieve results.

More Best Practices
More strategies that successful mentoring organizations use to achieve results.

Mentoring Code of Practice
Questions and answers regarding ethics in mentoring.

Advanced Mentoring Training
Ideas on how to build on your basic mentoring training and keep the momentum going.

Distance Mentoring
Mentoring CAN be done at a distance.

Effective Mentoring Relationships: The Mentor’s Role (Part 1 of 2)
How to look at one or two of your more intentional or formal mentoring relationships and assess what is and isn’t a strength in those relationships.

Effective Mentoring Relationships: Mentor Role Assessment (Part 2 of 2)
Assess yourself on these six key “ingredients” of effective mentoring relationships and your mentor role in each of these.

Reasons to Be a Mentor
Article to help mentors understand the many benefits to them of mentoring.

Helping Mentees Do Research
Ideas to help mentors guide mentees in doing research.

Helping Mentees with Vision Statements
Ideas to help mentors guide mentees in doing vision statements.

Helping Mentees with Development Plans
Ideas to help mentors guide mentees in doing development plans.

Mentoring Details
Details make the difference between merely ordinary and exceptional mentoring relationships.

Effective Mentoring Relationships: The Mentee’s Role (Part 1 of 2)
How to monitor those relationships and ensure they’re as good as they can be, and begin thinking about what is and isn’t a strength in those relationships.

Effective Mentoring Relationships: Mentee Role Assessment (Part 2 of 2)
Assess yourself on these six key “ingredients” of effective mentoring relationships and your mentee role in each of these.

Creating or Revising Your Personal Vision
A tool to help mentees create a compelling vision that can help them succeed, be more satisfied with their lives, and get the most out of their mentoring relationships.

Writing a Personal Vision Statement
Tools to help mentees identify and implement their personal vision.

Writing Your Development Plan
A tool to help mentees develop a personal developmental plan.