Stephanie Chung, Executive Coach, Sales Mentor and Business Advisor It takes a very talented, determined and experienced individual to successfully lead a business, complete numerous tasks and meet business goals. As you know, business leaders have many responsibilities and are expected to fulfill their roles to the best of their ability. However, being constantly pulled in […]
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Chip R. Bell, Author, Sprinkles: Creating Awesome Experiences Through Innovative Service We are in a peculiar business era. Customers demand personalized, tailor-made delight delivered by highly adaptive front line people. New products and services released today can be reverse engineered and duplicated by competitors before close of business tomorrow. Newly acquired skills are obsolete almost
Linda Drumright, General Manager, Clinical Trial Optimization Solutions, IMS Mentoring has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my career. Over the years, I have learned a tremendous amount about myself from my work with some of my most determined mentees. Regardless of whether we had similar industry affiliations or career disciplines along our unique paths
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Teachable moments abound, and the mentee’s level of vulnerability determines the mentee’s teachability. The mentee must be willing to learn through formal and informal lessons. You and the mentee should identify learning opportunities from which the mentee can glean meaningful insights and then implement the lessons learned in a way that produces tangible results. A
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To gain your respect and admiration, and to maximize the relationship and your time, the mentee must account for his or her actions (good or bad) to you because you are in a superior position to judge the mentee’s actions, provide encouragement or initiate correction. Flying solo without regard to others and the rules that
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Let the mentee know that the first step to establishing an effective mentoring relationship is for the mentee to slowly expose his or her weaknesses to enable you to focus your efforts on better equipping the mentee for independence and success. In other words, the mentee’s guard has to come down to enable the mentee
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