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Want to Become a Mentor? Follow These 5 Steps

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Most likely, these individuals consist of family members, teachers, a work supervisor and friends who served as mentors. A mentor is someone who offers support , gives advice and helps guide others through a personal or professional journey. Eventually, you may become one yourself and carry on the meaningful legacy of mentoring.

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4 Ways To Enhance Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion In Hybrid And Remote Work Environments

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An easy way to start advocating is to conduct internal surveys to determine those issues. In order to create an inclusive diversity strategy, leaders must address communication and sponsorship issues within their organization by setting up mentoring programs and virtual training. Take a few seconds to come up with a guess.

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The Gender Pay Gap: 3 Steps to Work Toward Workplace Parity

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This narrative has been a constant hum over the course of my career, which is odd considering nearly every raise and promotion I’ve ever received has come as a result of my own asking. What’s worse, the existing pay gap increases over the course of women’s careers. Women make 84% of what their male counterparts are making on average.

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Trust Me on This: Building a Business Clients Love

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According to a PwC survey, 87% of consumers stated that trust is a deciding factor in their purchasing decisions. Seek Out Testimonials from Peers or Mentors : If you’re new to the business, having a respected industry figure vouch for your character and work ethic can be incredibly powerful. Think outside the box just a little.

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How to Encourage Employee Autonomy—and Why That Should Matter to You as a Leader

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Trust requires you to provide feedback rather than directives and allow workers to act on your company’s behalf (within well-defined boundaries, of course). You can also conduct surveys or have private conversations with employees to find out how they feel about their level of autonomy. These are all signs that autonomy is taking hold.

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

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Von Armansperg told us that in Leapsome’s State of People Enablement survey, more than 50% of the people who responded wanted a workplace that encouraged feedback, goal setting and learning. Gialleli’s idea for implementing a mentor/mentee program is a good and creative example for one such method. “The

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Members of Your Team Might Be Experiencing Middle Management Syndrome—Here’s How to Fix That

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A study by The Conference Board reported that only 19% of middle managers surveyed felt they received proper training in leadership and management after being promoted. In another survey , only 35% of managers are engaged, 51% are not engaged (defined as caring little about their job and company) and 14% are actively disengaged.