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

Success

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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Diplomas and Dilemmas: How 2023 Graduates Can Navigate Job Market Chaos

Allwork

2023 grads are entering a job market that is not so quick to employ new grads. This is a shift from the past two years where companies were fiercely competing to recruit interns and recent graduates. Although the U.S. Although the U.S. have now had to lay off thousands of employees in recent months.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna.

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Most firms don’t have AI guidance in place for internal comms

Workplace Insight

Over two-thirds (71 percent) of organisations do not provide guidance on when, where or how to use AI for internal communications, according to Gallagher’s 2023/24 State of the Sector report [registration]. Nearly 40 percent of communicators (38 percent) indicated their wellbeing decreased in 2023.

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Wellbeing and organisational agility will dominate workplace conversations in 2023

Workplace Insight

The report also claims that in the year ahead, organisations must practice what it refers to as plasticity — a combination of flexibility and adaptability to make internal processes and networks malleable and open to change. Fostering agility.

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Business leaders struggling to navigate rapid change, report claims

Workplace Insight

According to the report, technology-related challenges are the top concern for executives, both internally and externally. Executives resoundingly express a desire for a more comprehensive suite of career support options, such as mentoring, coaching, career strategy, succession planning, and onboarding.

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Want To Stop Employees From Walking Out The Door? Build Them A Career Ladder

Allwork

Simply enabling employees to apply for internal roles won’t work if they lack the motivation, skills or growth opportunities to do those roles effectively,” Von Armansperg said. Gialleli’s idea for implementing a mentor/mentee program is a good and creative example for one such method. “The

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