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Mentoring in Government Podcast

In this episode of The Public Manager podcast, Ryann Ellis interviews Randy Emelo about the value of mentoring to government agencies.

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Mentoring in the Middle

Agencies need flexible and effective ways to promote employee growth. Randy Emelo describes ways that a robust mentoring program can help in this article.

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Enhance Employee Training with Mentoring Programs

Are your employees keeping up with changing work demands? Read this to find out how mentoring software and programs can support employee training.

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Webinar Recap: Getting the Most from Mentoring Conversations

What can you do to create productive mentoring conversations between mentees and mentors? Find out in this recorded webinar from River.

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The Purpose Behind Modern Mentoring Programs

There is a growing need to engage workers in meaningful collaboration and to share wisdom that only comes as the result of experience, which is where mentoring fits.

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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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The Critical Role of Mentoring Conversations

89% of respondents say developmental conversations between mentors and mentees play the biggest role in mentoring effectiveness. So how are you supporting and encouraging quality conversations?

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Questions and Curiosity Drive Deeper Learning in Mentoring

Want more inquisitive and innovative learners in your company? Foster their curiosity and encourage them to ask deeper questions.

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Mentoring Health Assessment

Do you know what it takes to ensure your mentoring relationship is healthy and thriving? This eBook from River shares what to look for in yourself and others to help you have a healthy mentoring ...

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Mentoring Administrators Sometimes Need Help Too

Looking for ways to help train your mentees and mentors? Check out this blog and eBook on 5 Tips for Being a Better Mentor.

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5 Tips for Being a Better Mentor

Be the best mentor you can be! Get tips in our free eBook on how you can engage your mentee, push your mentee, and help your mentee achieve success. Because even mentors can use a helping hand ...

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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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Challenges with Managing a Traditional Mentoring Program

Forget spreadsheets and hand-matching. Here are four ways mentoring software can help ease the burden for implementing a traditional mentoring program.

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Flipped Classrooms Put Learning to Work

Learning is a process, not an event. Chris Browning explores how flipped learning can improve your return on training investment.

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Creating a Modern Mentoring Culture

Mentoring is a proven method for sharing knowledge in a personalized way, for helping someone else gain skills and confidence, and for helping improve overall job satisfaction. So why do so many ...

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How Effective Are You as a Mentor?

There isn't a magic formula for being a great mentor or mentee, but there are certainly effective and ineffective characteristics. Which do you have?

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Effective (and Ineffective) Characteristics of Mentees

To help you move your mentoring relationship in a positive direction, here are five effective and ineffective characteristics of mentees.

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5 Ways to Be a Great Mentor

Are you ready to be the best mentor possible? Here are five easy ways you can be a more effective mentor starting right now. Read more!

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Finding Time for Mentoring

We all know how difficult it is to find the time to complete tasks associated with our daily work duties, much less to find time for voluntary activities such as mentoring. So why do people do ...

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Flipped Classrooms Put Learning to Work

Flip the classroom to make learning more effective, personal, and applicable to the job. Get ideas and tips in this blog.

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Stop Training and Start Learning

Go beyond training, and help employees learn. Give them ways to build personal learning and mentoring networks. Learn how in this blog and related eBook.

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Real Goals in Action

Learn how to set REAL goals and get ideas you can use in your mentoring relationships and mentoring training.

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Smart Goals Are Dumb

Consider REAL goals for professional development, not SMART goals. This can be an especially important part of mentee and mentor training.

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Multi-gen Workforce

Baby Boomers are getting set to retire. Gen Xers are taking on new leadership roles. Millennials are entering the workforce. How can you address all the learning needs of these unique generations?

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How-To Guide for a Mentoring Revolution

Revolutionize mentoring at your organization and increase the benefits it can have for your workforce. River can help you do it. Learn how in this free eBook from the mentoring experts.

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Getting the Most from Mentoring Conversations

Finding a mentor or mentee (or making the match as an administrator) is only one part of the equation when it comes to mentoring success. Knowing how to engage in productive mentoring ...

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Continuous Learning Leaves an Impact

Discover how you can bring learning to all employees at every stage of their career and make it a continuous, open, and inclusive process.

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Who Is the Best Mentor for You?

Randy Emelo talks about viewing experts along a learning continuum to help build the pool of potential mentors available in an organization.

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Who Is the Best Mentor/Advisor for You?

For mentoring, view experts along a learning continuum. This helps build the pool of potential mentors available in an organization.

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4 Collaboration Styles in Social Learning and Mentoring

Discover 4 distinct styles of collaboration within virtual mentoring & social learning groups that impact how people work and learn together.

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