Insights on building better workplaces
Our latest articles on mentorships, learning and development, employee retention, DEIB, remote work, and building effective teams.
November 1, 2024
What is a Career Map? [+ 4 Career Mapping Template Examples]
Learn about career mapping and how it benefits employee engagement and retention, and discover 4 practical examples of career mapping templates.
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A guide to peer to peer learning
January 11, 2022
Where do your team members go when they need to learn something? HR would like to say they go to their learning management system and take a course. But most of the time, employees go to each other to solve problems and learn. This is the essence of peer-to-peer learning. To scale peer learning across your organization, here's your guide to starting a peer-to-peer learning program.
Tips and Tricks
Peer learning and knowledge sharing
Learning and Development
Mentor Matching: How to Make Career-Changing Pairings
January 11, 2022
Mentor matching is vital to mentorship program success. Learn how to create impactful matches manually or with tools like Together’s mentor match engine.
Examples
Why Mentorship
Tips and Tricks
Productive mentoring sessions: 5 tips
December 29, 2021
Too often, poor preparation for mentoring sessions leads to poor results. To have impactful and productive mentoring meetings, here are 5 tips.
Tips and Tricks
Moving from an informal to a formal mentoring program
December 29, 2021
Should you step back and let mentorship happen informally? Or should you establish a formal mentorship program for employees? Here's how to decide.
Why Mentorship
Tips and Tricks
Excelling in every stage of the employee life cycle
December 22, 2021
The employee life cycle is six stages that span the period from when an employee applies to when they eventually move on from the company. It's an expansive model for HR professionals to outline and optimize the employee experience. If used correctly, the employee life cycle can lead to greater retention, engagement, and development of individuals. This article will break down each stage and explain how you can apply it in your company.
Learning and Development
Why Mentorship
What is ‘knowledge sharing’ and why is it important?
December 22, 2021
Knowledge sharing is defined by organizations that have processes in place to exchange critical information across the workforce. Organizations that do it really well have a culture of knowledge where employees are encouraged to share what they know with others instead of hoarding it. Team leaders, here's everything you need to know about knowledge sharing, its benefits, and how to encourage it in your company.
Peer learning and knowledge sharing
Knowledge transfer: Keeping critical know-how within the organization
December 22, 2021
Knowledge transfer is how organizations get the critical skills, insights, and ways of doing things from employees who may be leaving the organization to those who are sticking around. In this article we break down what knowledge transfer is, why it's important, and how to work out a plan for it in your company.
Peer learning and knowledge sharing
The benefits of mentorship
December 17, 2021
There are many benefits associated with mentorship—for the mentee, mentor, and the company they work for. Here is a list of all of them for each.
Why Mentorship