Use Mentoring to Claim The Tiara You Deserve! Guest blog by Lis Merrick, Managing Director, Coach Mentoring Ltd Tiara Syndrome is a term originally developed by Carol Frohlinger and Deborah Kolb and then used by Sheryl Sandberg in her book ‘Lean in’. Sandberg feels that women often think they can be crowned with the tiara […]
6 Top Tips For Mentoring Women
6 Top Tips For Mentoring Women These tips are for men who mentor women, but many apply for woman-to-woman mentoring as well. 1. Code of conduct For any cross-gender mentoring partnership, let it be known you are in a formal mentoring relationship, preferably as part of a structured program with a clear code of […]
Discovering the Science of a Mentoring Program
Discovering the Science of a Mentoring Program By Toni Brearley, Chief Executive Officer of The Australasian Society of Association Executives (AuSAE) For the uninitiated, mentoring looks like an opportunity for a junior employee to have coffee and a chat with someone more senior. One hopes that some of the senior person’s wisdom and experience will […]
What Technology Do I Need to Run an Effective Mentoring Program?
What Technology Do I Need to Run an Effective Mentoring Program? The Oxford Dictionary defines technology as “the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.” The key word in that sentence is “practical”. With mentoring programs, as with everything in business, technology can add tremendous value, but there is no value in technology for technology’s […]
Mentoring Software: Program Coordinators
Mentoring Software that Program Coordinators Love On Building Experience into Technology It’s a little more than 20 years ago that I first organised a formal mentoring program. I had already enjoyed a successful marketing career, and hoped to establish a mentoring program for women starting out in marketing as a way of giving back to […]
Fast Knowledge Transfer – FKT – is not Mentoring
Fast Knowledge Transfer – FKT – is not Mentoring In recent months, there has been a spate of articles and webinars extolling the virtues of “speed mentoring”, “flash mentoring” or similar means of fast knowledge transfer (FKT). We have also seen the rise of “Mentoring Lite” from major dot-com providers, providing rapid matching between people […]
Quick E-guide – Mentoring Program Design
QUICK GUIDEMentoring Program DesignIn this e-guide, we will share with you some of our top tips for each of the 7 stages of the life cycle of a mentoring program.
What if the Coachee or Mentee Appears Delusional
What if the coachee or mentee appears delusional Although only one person in 500 is receiving treatment for a delusional disorder at any time, the rest of us are much more susceptible to bizarre and irrational beliefs than we like to admit. A recent study asking people about 17 delusional beliefs (for example: Do you […]
What is the conversation you need to have
What’s the conversation you need to have We all have conversations we avoid. We can wall these conversations off to the extent that we are not even aware we are avoiding them. In helping someone get to know themselves, a coach or mentor can encourage them to acknowledge and explore these conversations. Some of the […]
Mentoring is Not Just for “Top Talent”
Mentoring is Not Just for “Top Talent” Mentoring is increasingly recognised as a powerful tool for developing and retaining the leaders of tomorrow. Very true and I applaud organisations for embracing mentoring and embedding it in their human resource management processes. I am less enthusiastic, however, when I see large organisations focus their mentoring programs […]