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As virtual learning becomes more ubiquitous, people may wonder whether traditional, high-touch training approaches like mentoring still have a role to play. But the past few…
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When most people think about mentoring, what comes to mind is career advice and counseling. But another powerful application of mentoring is as a knowledge transfer technique…
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6 Steps to Mentoring Success
APQC has conducted an in-depth Best Practices Study highlighting mentoring programs of seven featured organizations that help participants develop expertise in their fields,…
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Measuring the Health of a Mentoring Program
Measurement helps mentoring programs identify improvement opportunities and communicate the value of mentoring to potential participants and their managers, according to APQC…
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Find a Way to Gauge the Value of Mentoring
No matter what business purpose an organization pursues through mentoring, it must evaluate its program in order to determine whether it is achieving its goals. APQC’s…
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No matter what business purpose an organization pursues through mentoring, it must evaluate its program in order to determine whether it is achieving its goals. A common…
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When organizations consider ways to enable workplace mentorship, a common question is whether they need comprehensive software platforms to help mentors and mentees learn…
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Attracting qualified mentors in sufficient numbers to meet demand is a common challenge for mentoring programs. In studying the featured organizations in its Workplace…
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Ongoing organizational support is essential to productive, sustainable mentorships. For this reason, most of the organizations featured in APQC’s Workplace Mentoring research…
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The success of a mentorship is ultimately determined by the commitment of both the mentor and mentee. For this reason, many organizations featured in APQC’s recent Workplace…
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According to APQC’s research on workplace mentoring, mentoring pairs should have clear learning objectives and timelines for their interactions, including milestones at which…
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Once an organization identifies the business purpose it wants to achieve through mentoring and settles on the basic design of its mentoring program, the next step is to…
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Pairing Employees With the Right Mentors
Determining the right mentor for an employee can be a tricky task. For example, should mentors be subject matter experts in their respective fields? Do employees learn best…
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In its research on Workplace Mentoring practices, one question APQC wanted to answer was whether mentoring needs to be face-to-face, or whether it can work just as well in a…
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Usually, the term "mentoring" refers to a one-on-one relationship in which one person shares advice or expertise with another. This definition holds true for most of the…
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(1 - 5 of 669 Results)Selling, general, and administrative (SGA) costs per business entity employee
Cycle time in days from identification of need for repatriation to date of transfer
Cycle time in days from receipt of leave of absence request to confirmation of approval/non-approval issued to employee
Number of FTEs that perform the process group "manage employee information" per $1 billion revenue
Number of FTEs that perform the process group "redeploy and retire employees" per $1 billion revenue
