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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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How to Recognize and Prevent Toxic Work Environments

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Just remember—if you’re going to use an engagement survey, which has a variety of potential flaws, make sure your employees trust you enough to answer honestly, and avoid betraying that trust by making sure to discuss and/or act on the complaints. Managers should be responsible for more than merely supervising work and productivity.

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

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Rather than a traditional hierarchical structure with their managers, employees with a deep sense of responsibility for their tasks and projects tend to forge almost mentor-mentee relationships with those who are “one rung up.” This makes for healthier relationships that buck the power struggles no one needs, wants or likes.

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Does Returning to the Office Help Diversity?

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A Future Forum survey on this topic among knowledge workers — who can work fully remotely — found that 21% of all white knowledge workers wanted a return to full-time in-office work. . What would be your guess as to how many Black knowledge workers wanted a return to full-time in-office work? How do you address such problems ?

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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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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.

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How To Strengthen Your Workforce: Cultivate Growth Opportunities For Women

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Christina Gialleli , director of people operations at Epignosis, identified the source of these issues and shared how to better cultivate lateral career movement for women. According to a TalentLMS survey , 76% of employees agree that they are more likely to stay with a company that offers continuous training.