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River Mentoring Software Salutes Mentoring Program Administrators

Mentoring administrators work hard to make sure their mentees and mentors have positive relationships. Let's take a moment to shine a light on the important work they are doing by sharing some of ...

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Free Resources to Make Your Mentoring Program Amazing

This collection of resources from River’s mentoring experts can help you run your mentoring program and support your mentees and mentors.

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Recruiting Strategies for Your Mentoring Program

How do you get people to sign up for your corporate mentoring program? Check out these recruitment strategies from River.

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How Big Should My Mentoring Program Be?

Getting the size of your mentoring program right can help you build a quality experience for your mentees and mentors. Learn how here.

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Our Vision for Mentoring 2020

What does mentoring in 2020 have in store for you? Check out these predictions and tips to do more with mentoring in 2020.

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Why Peer and Reverse Mentoring Make Sense for Onboarding Programs

Connect your onboarding program with mentoring to create a personalized and cost-effective way to welcome and retain talented new hires.

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When Mentoring Programs Fail

Is your mentoring program doomed? Avoid these three mistakes to create a more successful mentoring program for your employees.

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5 Signs You Need Mentoring Software

From being overwhelmed by matching people by hand to not having a way to track relationships, here are five signs that let you know you need mentoring software.

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Which Mentor Matching Option Is Right for You?

When you’re designing your mentoring program, one of the biggest factors you will need to determine is how you want mentees and mentors to be matched. Is self-directed or administrator matching ...

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Mentoring Programs Are Not One Size Fits All

After nearly 20 years in the mentoring software business, here are three lessons we've learned with our clients on how to make mentoring programs successful. They are not one-size-fits-all!

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How Do I Run a Successful Mentoring Pilot?

We've seen successes and failures with mentoring pilots over the years. Here are seven tips you should follow to help you be successful.

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How to Mentor Introverts

Not everyone is comfortable networking or finding a mentor. Yet mentoring can be a great development tool for everyone, even introverts. Administrators can try these three things to get more ...

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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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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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Three Ways to Sabotage Your Mentoring Plan

You may not realize it, but you could be sabotaging your mentoring program. Here are some dangers to look out for.

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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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How Do I Design a Mentoring Program?

We hear from people every day who need to start or expand a mentoring program, but who aren't sure of what steps to take. Here is the answer.

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5 Mentoring Program Pitfalls

Beware! Avoid these five common pitfalls when running a business mentoring program.

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Social Learning Hasn’t Worked? Try Mentoring

Social learning programs can fall short of expectations, even with the best intentions. Mentoring can make the difference you need.

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Mentoring Ethics

Connect mentoring programs to ethics training to support and guide employees in the real world while they apply their new knowledge.

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Mentoring Groups Help Reinforce Learning

Don't overlook group mentoring as an integrated part of more traditional training interventions. Get ideas here.

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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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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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Mentoring Insights from Corporate Practitioners

During two recent River webinars, participants answered poll questions that give us insight into the inner workings and issues facing mentoring administrators in today's organizations.

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The Missing Piece of Mentoring Success?

In this River blog post, Chris Browning explores if there is a sixth M that should be added to our Five M's of Successful Mentoring model.

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Mentoring Is More than the Match

A mentoring administrator's job goes well beyond just making the match between people. Learn more about River's 5 M's of Successful Mentoring model.

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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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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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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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Connect Modern Mentoring to Programs

Guest author Adriane Gonzalez analyzes Modern Mentoring and the idea of connecting modern mentoring in the workplace to existing programs.

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