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Mentoring Software Makes Administration Easy

There’s no question that mentoring continues to be a desired program at work, but many organizations are missing the opportunity to take advantage of this. What's holding them back?

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Reverse Mentoring: 10 Tips for Making It Work

If you want your reverse mentoring program to be a success, here are 10 how-to tips that can help ensure your mentees and mentors discover the value and joy of mentoring.

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What We Can Learn about Mentoring from Special Olympics

Laura Francis shares how she was inspired by the Special Olympics when she assisted her son in his SO debut. “Let me win. But if I cannot win, let me be brave in the attempt.” ...

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Reverse Mentoring Trend Grows Up

We are on the verge of a shift in the way organizations look at reverse mentoring. Learn more here.

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Keys to Creating a Mentoring Culture

Design the mentoring culture you want! Here are three things to get you started...beyond just launching a mentoring program.

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River Helps Address Intra-Organizational Mentoring Challenges

Chris Browning, President of River, sat down with SuperbCrew to share River’s story, the challenges we help companies overcome, and the reasons why River is unique when it comes to business ...

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Three Mentoring Lessons from Hamilton

Three sentiments I uncovered in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s brilliant award-winning musical Hamilton that can apply to the practice of mentoring.

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The Mentoring Journey

Mentoring is a journey. Once we embrace the fact that our mentoring relationships may move us in unexpected directions, we can begin to explore some of the wonderful and amazing insights, ...

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Four Phrases Every Mentoring Relationship Needs

If you want to build a more genuine, caring, and meaningful mentoring relationship, then you need to know the four phrases that can help you get there.

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Be Brave in Mentoring

Having the courage to admit your flaws, identify your weaknesses, pursue your hidden dreams, and tackle the things that scare you most can take a mentoring relationship to an entirely different level.

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Transformative Mentoring

People often describe feeling transformed when they participate in mentoring. To help get everyone there, Randy Emelo describes three areas that can have a tremendous positive impact on mentoring ...

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Three Factors for Better Communication in Mentoring

To build a communication cycle for your mentoring program, you should consider three factors: focus, rhythm, and frequency.

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Modern Mentoring 2.0: The New Way to Run Mentoring Programs

Four lessons we've learned in the past few years when it comes to modern mentoring and running a business e-mentoring program.

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Modern Mentoring Means Business

Today, like never before, mentoring is being used to shape a different kind of work culture – one that is connected, responsive, and growth-focused. Randy Emelo writes about the critical ...

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The Essentials of a Mentoring Platform

Mentoring is a very personal development process, focusing on the specific learning needs of those engaged. As such, technology should simply be an enabler that allows organizations to scale the ...

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Does Mentoring Software Make Mentoring Impersonal?

At its core, mentoring is about learning from the experience of others.  But does mentoring lose something when software is introduced into the mix?

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Need Help Developing Soft Skills? Get a Mentor

Laura Francis describes how the safety and intimacy of a mentoring relationship can help participants learn to communicate more effectively, become better listeners, and be more empathetic.

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5 Tips for Being a Better Mentor

Could you be a better mentor? Laura Francis has five quick and easy tips to improve your relationship with your mentee.

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5 Must-have Components in Mentoring Software

Mentoring software should make it easier for organizations to run their mentoring programs, helping improve both efficiency and effectiveness. But do you know what you should look for when ...

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Admin Features

The administrative features in River give you as much—or as little—control as you want as an administrator.

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How Different Generations View Mentoring

Curious how people view mentoring? In this River blog, Randy Emelo shares how and why different generations view mentoring the way they do.

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Expert Advice

The most appropriate advisors aren’t always atop the learning heap. An ideal advisor may be just a step or two above the learner. This article from Randy Emelo shares stories from US LBM ...

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An Inside Look at Mentoring Success: Sodexo’s Spirit of Mentoring

As more and more employees ask for mentoring on the job, organizations can sometimes struggle with getting an effective mentoring program up and running. Sodexo is a DiversityInc Top 50 company ...

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Ask Me Anything: The Power of Questions in Learning

When answers are simply given to people, they don’t learn how to solve the problem themselves. Randy Emelo shows how questions can play a critical role in learning, and offers practical ...

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High Potentials

In high-potential programs today, the air of exclusivity should be replaced by a more open, collaborative environment where all leaders are challenged to elevate their own competencies and ...

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Mentoring Brings out the Best in Us

Mentoring makes a difference. Here are three ways mentoring helps bring out the best in us, regardless of our role as mentee or mentor.

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Building Blocks for Modern Mentoring

Adriane Gonzalez examines Modern Mentoring by Randy Emelo and explores the five core concepts for creating a modern mentoring culture.

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Gain Soft Skills While Mentoring

With our lives dominated by screens, clicks and likes, have we lost our touch on interpersonal soft skills? Use mentoring to fill the gap.

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Mentoring Agreements Create the Foundation for Your Relationship

Establishing the groundwork for your mentoring relationship is a key element for success. You give yourself and your mentoring partner an advantage by creating a mentoring agreement at the ...

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Are You Fully Engaged in Mentoring?

Mentoring is meant to be a learning relationship where both parties benefit from spirited sharing. To get the most from your mentoring experience, you must fully engage with one another.

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