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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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Top 3 Leadership Strategies to Build a $10 Million Business

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Rapid growth means training others to be you when you can’t be in every place. Trying to do it all alone will make you frustrated, burnt out and stressed to the point where you’ll get tempted to give it all up. Mentors can come in the form of coaches, training programs, or leadership and business growth courses.

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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. However, due to time constraints, this should not be the only form of mentorship.

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Is Marc Benioff of Salesforce Right That You Can’t Integrate Junior Staff Remotely?

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A key component of a hybrid development and integration program involves on-the-job training, which can easily be done in a small-group style on selected in-office days, with one senior staff member helping train six to eight junior employees. Again, this helps the whole group learn how to do this task.

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The Mel Robbins Guide to Screwing Up

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In her book, The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success , Megan McArdle explains that we gain skills by practicing things because we’re strengthening the connection between the action and the reward. Strike up a conversation with a complete stranger. Baby steps: Don’t start with the big stuff, you are in training.

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

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In fact, 94% of employees have reported they would stay longer at a company that invested in training and development. The first involves the general quest for knowledge by employees and the support given by employers for training. Oftentimes, I’ll pair someone up with a mentor so they have guidance as they learn on the job.”

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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. In 2020, Beth founded Next Level VA, a platform born from her desire to mentor aspiring and current executive and virtual assistants.

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