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10 tips for successful virtual mentoring meetings
… By Pia Prip Hansen Virtual one2one mentoring sessions does not have to be the next best thing. However, they require new skills and insight into the virtual opportunities. We give you 10 tips on how to ensure that your mentor/mentee meetings are effective and impactful even though there is a screen between…
Posted in Mentor
Leadership of the future
By Kirsten M. Poulsen Leadership of the future – and of today – is based on the knowledge-based society and the job, career and labour market trends that we are currently witnessing. The focus is on competencies and on balancing work and private life. Individuals in the labour market possess extensive and unique knowledge,…
Posted in Leadership
Are you taking ownership of your career?
…Benefits of having a mentor through career transitions By Pia Prip Hansen The concept of careers has changed with the changing focus in the work place. The meaning of career has changed from being an objective, externally defined concept to a subjective, internally defined concept. In the knowledge-based economy we are now talking…
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The Value of Virtual Mentoring Conversations
By Linda Bølling & Merel Wolff Let’s look at some of the benefits of creating a culture of learning with purposeful and effective virtual mentoring conversations. Virtualise the organisational learning dialogues in a global working environment To uncover the unique opportunities of working in a volatile, uncertain, and complex time, it is important to…
Posted in Mentoring relationship
The Benefits of Virtual Mentoring Programmes
By Linda Bølling Let’s look at some of the benefits of virtual mentoring programmes and the key issues and success criteria that creates high learning outcome and ROI. How can you build a solid virtual mentoring programme where participants are able to build close relationships and have insightful conversations in spite of physical distance?…
Posted in Mentoring Programme
Group mentoring becomes more and more popular
By Kirsten M. Poulsen Director and Management Consultant Traditionally mentoring happens as a one-to-one relationship between a more experienced person as the mentor and a less experienced person as the mentee. However, we experience a growing interest in establishing group mentoring programmes based on the need to provide mentoring for more mentees while mentors…
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Mentor vs Mentee’s Direct Manager
… a question of confidentiality? By Kirsten M. Poulsen Director and Management Consultant, KMP+ House of Mentoring The three-way conversation between coach, client and the client’s direct manager, is commonplace in coaching. Sometimes also involving HR, it provides a valuable opportunity to clarify agendas, establish the support needed from the direct manager, and improve…
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Changing lives by transforming learning
By Pia Prip Hansen Together with two Kenyan universities (Kenyatta University and Moi University) researchers from University of Brighton have worked on strengthening the education systems in East Africa. The project title is Strengthening education systems in East Africa: mentoring for development in pre-primary and primary education (SEMESA) and was founded by the…
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Benefits of Modern Mentoring
By Kirsten M. Poulsen Director and Mangement Consultant, KMP+ House of Mentoring Leaders and executives are facing many challenges in their daily work. Living in an ambiguous and volatile world and often in a matrix organisation with many influencers and stakeholders, makes it difficult to make decisions and feel confident that the decisions are…
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The core traits of truly effective coaches, mentors and leaders
By Professor David Clutterbuck A vast amount has been written about the competencies of coaches and mentors, and even more about the qualities of great leaders. Much of this is contradictory and dependent on circumstance or context. Research into the desirable traits of both coaches and leaders, for example, shows significant differences of expectations…
Posted in Management styles
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