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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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7 Goals to Invigorate Your Career in the New Year

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As the days fly by toward a new year, now is the perfect time to start setting your goals for next year. While that sounds good in theory, it can be a bit more challenging in practice when it comes to putting your goals in print. What are some goals to consider for the upcoming year? Is your career where you want it to be?

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5 Life Lessons I Learned from My Father

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My oldest daughter Madison was excited to be interviewed for this article because, as she so bluntly put it, she’s had “a very unusual upbringing.”. Whether inside or outside of class, I’m always looking for learning moments, and I welcome new experiences.”. Stick to your goals. To this day, I still keep a list of goals.

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What 3 CEOs Learned After Spending a Day in Their Employees’ Shoes

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only to report back that he agreed with drivers’ complaints—“The whole experience was pretty clunky,” he said in the article. His goal? “To So, he joined five calls and completed in-depth research to prepare for and follow up on those sessions, which involved mentoring prospective college students from around the world.

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Representation Matters: 5 Tips for Creating a Business Worth Supporting

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In the early days, he would open the phone book and call every theater and dance company in the city to promote his drop-in classes. Now his classes sell out. When selecting your mentor , look for the following: Ensure their mission statement aligns with your values and beliefs. Hartwell knows what hard work looks like.

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Is there one thing that will make the difference between actually achieving your goals and chalking them up to yet another year’s unfulfilled resolutions? Visualize your goals as already complete. Write a 101 life-goal list. Join a class at your fitness club, an exercise group or a team sport. Send them an article.

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A Look at How Brad D. Smith Motivated and Inspired Intuit Employees

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His wardrobe choice depended on what sales or product launch goal the team had accomplished. The goal was to convey to potential customers that QuickBooks’ new version was worth the 60-day wait, even as Intuit shared the airwaves with Microsoft during the announcement of its new product. Mentoring served him as well.

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