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Our latest articles on mentorships, learning and development, employee retention, DEIB, remote work, and building effective teams.
November 11, 2024
What Does Attrition Rate Mean? Definition, Calculation & Tips to Improve
What is an attrition rate, and how do you calculate it? Read on to learn how to use attrition rate to make your company a better place to work.
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The Benefits of Flash Mentoring
March 9, 2021
Flash mentoring offers several benefits that traditional mentoring doesn't. Here's what they are.
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Why Mentorship
Diversity & Inclusion
Knowledge sharing through flash mentoring
March 8, 2021
With an abundance of information it can be difficult for managers and L&D leaders to identify the key knowledge for employees to have. Flash mentoring is an effective way for organizations to capture and share critical knowledge of senior employees with new hires or future leaders.
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Learning and Development
8 Types of mentors and their role in the workplace
February 15, 2021
Different mentoring programs can serve different objectives. Maybe the goal is to foster more collaboration between departments; maybe it's to connect executives with junior employees. Here are 5 different types of mentoring.
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Why Mentorship
Tips and Tricks
What is an ERG?
February 1, 2021
Employee resource groups are volunteer-run groups focused on advocating for a specific part of the workplace like gender equity or work/life balance.
Diversity & Inclusion
Tips and Tricks
Employee Resource Group Best Practices
January 25, 2021
ERGs can be an advantage for both employees and employers when it comes to improving diversity in a workplace. Here are a dozen best practices we've observed helping ERG's grow.
Diversity & Inclusion
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Workplace Wellbeing
How to build a successful women’s employee resource group
January 11, 2021
Employee resource groups are a great way to support DE&I initiatives. Here's how to build a successful women's ERG.
Diversity & Inclusion
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New Managers and the probationary period
December 14, 2020
The first six months are a crucial time for onboarding. Here's how to guarantee a new hire's success.
New Managers
Tips and Tricks
5 Ways Mentoring Helps Employee Engagement
June 1, 2020
Mentoring as a way of developing talent within the business may have a set design and desired outcome, but no two mentor relationships will be the same. This is a good thing as there is usually a lot to offer from individuals and their eagerness to contribute to success, so a mentoring program provides the necessary platform to help voices be heard and to help even the most experienced company veterans to learn to adapt to modern changes and methods. The benefit of providing atwo-way learning opportunity is that it keeps employees and managers engaged, feeling valued and willing to listen, especially when all parties have something to gain from it.
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Learning and Development
Employee Engagement