A Mentoring 360 series following the progress of implementing a mentoring programme for women in Papua New Guinea I thought it would be interesting (and helpful) to share the journey I am on with establishing Read more…
I’ve been meeting with a number of business leaders of small and medium-sized companies lately and they have all been talking about the impact their managers and supervisors have on team performance and cohesion. These Read more…
I’ve just finished reading an article about a research project that investigated whether mentors learn by mentoring others. My first question to self was, “What did the authors mean by the mentors’ ‘learning’?” And what Read more…
Prompted by one of my FaceBook Community and LinkedIn colleagues – thanks Matthew Percival – I started doing some reading about tacit knowledge, in particular how common it is to lose this wealth of knowledge Read more…
Including mentoring training for your mentors and mentees is, in my opinion and experience, an essential component of your mentoring programme. I have talked about the hows and whys of mentoring training in a previous Read more…
Increasing Employee Engagement If you search the internet for how to measure employee engagement, there are multiple sites suggesting multiple tools, including the need to define what you mean by ‘employee engagement’. That last part Read more…
Mentoring Masterclasses and a Thought Leader Seminar Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to facilitate mentoring workshops and a mentoring seminar with leaders, team managers and HR practitioners across the Queensland public sector. The Read more…
The Leader’s Checklist: Check your leader-mentor attributes and skills What are those core principles that drive your leadership approach and underpin who you are as a leader? How do these translate into your role as Read more…
8 Traits of the Leader-Mentor These 8 traits have been sourced from a range of authors, locally and internationally. The traits speak volumes of the attributes core to a good leader and mirror the qualities Read more…
The Leader as Mentor Here are a host of statements about leadership, mentoring and the leader as mentor. See which ones (if not all of them) you agree with and apply in your daily practice Read more…