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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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From the Editor: Ready to Achieve Financial Abundance? Take Note from These Resources

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From time-tested strategies to cutting-edge approaches, these experts offer a road map for turning your financial goals into tangible, sustainable realities. Take Note from These Resources appeared first on SUCCESS. How to manifest financial abundance Financial planning is a critical part of the process.

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Attention, Leaders: It’s Time to Rethink Employee Development

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Helping employees understand best practices to flex and anticipate increases their likelihood of being able to process information, go through consistent and applied problem-solving processes, and make confident decisions that support the company’s overarching goals. The best way to transfer your knowledge is to mentor your team.

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Does Returning to the Office Help Diversity?

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In 2019, before the pandemic, Meta committed to a five-year goal of doubling the number of Black and Hispanic workers in the U.S., However, thanks to remote work, Meta’s 2022 Diversity Report shows that it attained and even outperformed its 2019 five-year goals for diversity — two years ahead of its original plans.

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Unmasking the Corporate Return-to-Work Fallacy: A Genuine Approach to Junior Staff Development

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Focus groups indicated that only those junior staff with pronounced social skills and initiative were mentored in the “forced return” scenario, leaving those lacking these skills — and arguably in most need of mentorship — neglected. A Progressive Approach for a Post-Pandemic World The main lesson to learn?

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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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The Four Horsemen of the Mandated Return to Office

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The Society for Human Resource Management found that half of all Black office workers wanted to work from home permanently, while only 39% of white workers did so. . For example, in 2019, Meta committed to a five-year goal of doubling the number of Black and Hispanic workers in the U.S. Mentoring initiatives .

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