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Creating a Learning Organization: Fostering Continuous Improvement and Innovation

N2Growth Blog

A learning organization fosters ongoing learning, innovation, and improvement among its members. Mentoring Programs: Pairing experienced employees with newcomers facilitates knowledge transfer and professional development. Hackathons and Innovation Labs: These opportunities allow employees to test new ideas.

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Mentoring Benefits Mentors As Well As Mentees

The Horizons Tracker

Typically when we think of mentoring, we see the process as one that sees benefits flow from the wise mentor to their less experienced mentee. Research from Columbia University suggests that mentoring can be just as beneficial to the mentor as it is for the mentee. This then makes the process more enjoyable too.

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Are You a Disruptive Mentor?

Lead Change Blog

It is a moniker that signals the pursuit of innovation and rapid change, not a cautious incremental improvement. But, the spirit that blows through the halls of innovative organizations is fanned by leaders with a thirst for learning coupled with a recognition that every great leader today must be a mentor.

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Female Entrepreneurs Benefit From Female Mentors

The Horizons Tracker

Some got regular help from volunteer mentors, and others didn’t. The mentors talked to the business owners over the internet and phone, helping them learn how to make their businesses better. When the researchers checked back two years later, they found that the women who had female mentors had much better results.

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Building a Mentoring Culture in Your Organization

Lead Change Blog

There are a ton of benefits to establishing a culture of mentoring within your organization. This post will share those benefits with you and explain how to cultivate the mentoring culture within your organization. You just need one really good mentor knowledgeable in an area, and everyone will benefit from that knowledge.

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Mentoring Helps Mentors As Well As Mentees

The Horizons Tracker

Mentoring is widely lauded for the benefits it can provide to mentees, but new research from Concordia University reminds us that it also brings significant benefits to mentors too. The authors highlight that whereas the traditional view of mentoring has meant that most attention has been given to the mentee rather than the mentor.

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3 Factors Inventors Share: How to Change the World

Leading Blog

When I looked back into history to track the origins of some of the everyday innovations we take for granted today, I found that every inventor tended to embody some or all of these same traits. Historically, successful inventions have always been about personal initiative combined with support — a backer, a mentor, a sponsor.

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