What are the best practices around Sponsorship and Mentoring?
“A coach talks to you, a mentor talks with you, and a sponsor talks about you.”
Sponsors, mentors, and coaches can all make a difference in how individuals advance through organizations but there are key differences between each. Coaches provide guidance on development and often help with soft skills, such as active listening. Mentors help their mentees navigate their careers choices through formal or informal mentoring relationships.

NEW YORK—For women especially, it takes more than meeting expectations to get noticed in today's workplace. Female employees who work hard and play by the rules are often overlooked when it comes to plum assignments and big promotions. According to Sponsoring Women to Success, the latest in Catalyst’s groundbreaking series of reports on women and sponsorship, ...

One of the unintended consequences of the #MeToo movement seems to be the alienation of male mentors.
A new set of findings from women’s empowerment non-profit LeanIn.Org and online survey platform SurveyMonkey reveal that, since the media reports of sexual harassment first emerged last fall, ...

Can mentoring reduce employee attrition?
I have recently been approached to act as a mentor to a few younger people at different stages in their professional lives. Apart from the fact that I started to feel really old, ...

There are plenty of mentoring programs out there these days for professional women, but they aren’t doing enough. Many are held up as examples of a company’s commitment to diversifying its leadership pipeline, but despite the resources and good intentions behind such programs, they rarely bring about real change.

Qu’est ce que le mentoring ? A quels types de situations et de besoins répond-il ? Comment le mettre en place ? Derrière la notion de “mentoring”, il y a une démarche d’accompagnement qui a fait ses preuves. En voici quelques exemples concrets, témoignages à l’appui.

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