I believe that, now, more than ever, employees need the support of mentors to deal with the unique features of the COVID challenge.
We’re in the middle of a crisis, and managers have lots to deal with. In these times of challenge, mentoring for them and by them is more important than ever.
We are living in unprecedented times. With COVID-19 impacting countries around the world, people everywhere are shifting to work from home and sometimes stay in isolation. They have children at home too, family members to worry about, food to buy, and the need to feel healthy and connected. While I am optimistic that we will
It feels like we are already deep into 2020, but we always enjoy looking back and reviewing the popular blogs of previous years. Like 2018, last year was again focused on mentoring and career conversations, with just over half of the posts sitting in the top 10 year in, year out. We’re also delighted to
In my last blog post, I talked about the power of storytelling in mentoring and career conversations. So, today I thought I’d share some thoughts on how to craft compelling career stories. Some people are great natural storytellers. They mentally recall their experiences and have no trouble relaying them as interesting stories. For the rest
Do you want your employees to really engage with what you are saying? Do you want to grab their emotions rather than just their logical brain? The secret is to use stories. Storytelling is the oldest and most powerful way to engage, excite and educate people. When people are inspired, they take action. That’s not
The Best Business Women Awards have announced their winners for 2019. I am thrilled to say I won Best Coach! The Best Business Women Awards seek to find the very best female business talent from across the UK. The business world is full of talented and dedicated female entrepreneurs. The Best Business Women Awards are
You want your employees to be successful, don’t you? In fact, you and they have probably used that word. But do you know what success really means to them? Have they truly thought about it and discussed it with you? People talk about success all the time. But rarely do they define it in a
It’s that time of the year when everyone reviews what’s happened this year and all the “best of” lists surface. For us, 2018 was a year focussed on mentoring and career conversations. And it seems it was the same for our readers. Here are our most viewed blog posts and resources in 2018. Some of
This is the third post in our series about entrepreneurial leadership. In my last post, you discovered the 11 Characteristics of Entrepreneurial Leaders. In this post, you’ll discover how to develop them and specifically, the role that mentoring can play. Learning Through Doing The reality is that anyone can develop the skills and behaviours needed
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