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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

Success

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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A business is a system of systems that an efficient team must manage. Growing a business to $10 million will require different skills, systems, leadership and other growth strategies you’re unfamiliar with if you haven’t reached that revenue level. McNeil, founder of Lori McNeil International. Be sure to vet your mentors.

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Working together, they amplify their voices, ideas and initiatives, catalyzing systemic change and creating a more equitable world. Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. Mentorship is also crucial.

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3 Ways to Create a Better System for Information Management

All Things Admin

Whether it’s handling emails, documents, or projects, having a well-organized system can significantly improve productivity and streamline decision-making processes. Here are three simple yet effective strategies to help you enhance your information management system. This gives us three different ways to find the file in our system.

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7 Steps to Documenting Complex Office Procedures and Systems

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Procedures and systems go hand in hand. A system is a series of procedures that all work together to accomplish larger, more complex tasks and projects. This series of procedures, forms, templates, and checklists combines to create our system for producing new training webinars.

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Simplify Your Filing System and Retire Your To-File Pile

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Many times, we struggle with filing because it feels overwhelming, we’re not sure where to begin, or we don’t have an easy system in place. But there are ways to simplify your filing system. Now that you’ve set yourself up for filing efficiently, you need to fine tune your overall filing system. Last month? Last summer?

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Does Returning to the Office Help Diversity?

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Research shows that one of the primary reasons minorities fail to advance stems from the lack of connections to senior staff in the form of informal mentoring and sponsorship. To address this program requires creating a formal hybrid and remote mentoring program , with a special focus on underprivileged staff. .

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