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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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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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How to Establish Professional Development Goals to Help Build Your Dream Career

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Formal education helps you to get a good job, but building your dream career requires commitment to ongoing learning and personal improvement. Career growth requires a solid strategic plan suited uniquely to you—that is where setting meaningful professional development goals, like the examples included below, can assist you most.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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On a sunny March day in his hometown of Chicago, Chance the Rapper makes his way to The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center for our interview and his SUCCESS photo shoot. He says an after-school program at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center gave him the education he needed. Photos by Nick Onken.

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A quarter of projects don’t meet their stated goals – but that’s not because of remote working

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A quarter of all projects do not meet the business goals that their organisations set for them, according to research published by the Project Management Institute (PMI) in the 15th edition of its Pulse of the Profession report – The Future of Project Work.

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

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Employee development programs are a great way to show your employees you care about their future by investing in their education and training. The best way to transfer your knowledge is to mentor your team. Being a mentor obviously involves listening. What is employee development? You’re managing people, not robots.

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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. Through her work, Arrington is breaking cycles of incarceration and creating pathways to college education and careers for historically underserved communities.

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