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

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The Mentorship Disparity: Favoring Interpersonal Skills Over Technical Competence Forced office attendance can lead to a mentorship imbalance. Hence, the leadership, senior staff, and junior employees all achieve their respective goals — a win-win-win situation. This was the case at a large professional services firm.

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The Ultimate Layoff Survival Guide: How To Rebound From A Job Loss

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Compare the jobs you want to the skills you have and see if there are any gaps List your current skills: Begin by making a list of all your current skills, including both hard skills (technical or job-specific skills) and soft skills (interpersonal or transferable skills).

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What’s Next to Be Your Best? 3 Personal and Professional Development Trends in 2024

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Not only do personal and professional development opportunities provide key benefits to employees—like learning new skills, boosting confidence and credibility, developing leadership skills and increasing earning potential—but employers greatly benefit too. Why are human skills important?

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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

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Mastering the components of emotional intelligence makes relationship-building easier, both personally and professionally, and is critical to developing effective leadership skills. Emotional intelligence is a skill. In fact, those with high EQ are more apt to use goal-setting strategies.

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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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Ep 269: Beth Portesi – Lead Executive Assistant at Fivetran

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Beth Portesi is a seasoned executive assistant and founder of Next Level VA, where Beth is passionate about mentoring EAs and VAs. Her initial goal was to support a remote lifestyle, a pursuit that rapidly evolved into a remarkable success story.