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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

Sometimes that feedback comes from a mentor or in a formal coaching relationship, and other times it’s family, friends, or co-workers who can shine a light on a path forward if we make them feel safe to do so. I mentor many adults who didn’t have a role model in their youth and many who did.

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The Rewards of Mentoring :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Stimmler , contributing Women on Business writer A few days ago I received an out-of-the-blue email from a former intern at my firm thanking me and my business partner “for being such fantastic mentors.&# And that being a mentor, either formally or informally, really does make a difference and can touch people’s lives.

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Jennifer Miller: The Character-Based Leader Co-Author Interview

Lead Change Blog

Miller has been living a life of character-based leadership.She’s crafted a career abundant with leadership stories: manager for three different Fortune 500 companies, project team leader, mentor and board member.

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Help I Have a REALLY LAZY Coworker! How Do I Stay Motivated?

Let's Grow Leaders

” Start With You: What to Do When Your Coworker is Lazy Having spent many years in human resources, then leading large teams, and now working with leaders around the world, let me start here. DO build a network of support Seek out folks with similar ambition and work ethic to support and challenge you. Find a mentor.

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The Latest in Corporate Bail Outs – Women

In the CEO Afterlife

One can live with the ethic of the best person gets the job , but at the same time, corporations must make it their mission to bring greater diversity into the C-suite and around the boardroom table. These leaders become the direct and indirect mentors of their brothers and sisters in middle management.

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Be an Advocate for Yourself :: Women on Business

Women on Business

Mentoring is defined as career advice and guidance and sponsorship is advocacy. Usually sponsors have more senior positions than mentors, and it is their responsibility to advocate for an individual and pull them up the ranks to a top level position in the company. Your mentor might be able to help identify and facilitate this.

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Stop Managing Your Career

In the CEO Afterlife

More than ever, people are seeking mentors, “branding” themselves and carefully managing their careers in order to dash up that quintessential corporate ladder. Let’s be honest; at the heart of seeking out a mentor, personal branding and career management is one undeniable fact – IT IS ALL ABOUT YOU. You owe it to yourself.

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