Begin With the End in Mind: The Goal-Driven Mentoring Relationship

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Lois J. Zachary

Clarifying and articulating learning goals is indispensable to the success of a mentoring relationship. While some mentees come to a mentoring relationship with well-defined goals, it is more the exception than the rule. Most mentees come with a general idea about what ... More »

Demystifying the EI Quick Fix

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Laurie Carrick

Are leaders born or made? In 2006, Warren Bennis said, "The most dangerous myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership, that people have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense. Leaders are made rather than born." Daniel Go... More »

Corporate Training Pulse Check

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Mandy Woulfe

Many times you may have wondered, what do participants really think about the corporate classes they have attended? Do they like or dislike certain types of training? What are the elements of a training class that make the class boring or interesting? Most importantly, ... More »

Expanding the Role of Succession Planning

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Robert Kleinsorge

Spurred on by global growth, global competition, and the recent economic crisis, companies are restructuring themselves more frequently and more rapidly. Such frequent dismantling and reassembling of a company's organizational structure creates gaps in leadership at all... More »

Those Who Lead, Mentor

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Lois J. Zachary

The first decade of the century is behind us, and we are on the threshold of a new one, having learned many lessons about mentoring and leadership during the last 10 years. Perhaps the most significant is that study after study has shown that the majority of leaders att... More »