Think you have a talent problem in your organization? Think again. Learn about a ridiculously easy way to cure the so-called problem (and receive bonus benefits while you're at it).

Yes, you've guessed right if you think the solution has something to do with mentoring. But it goes even deeper than that. In this free thought paper, you'll learn more about...

• The role your company's vision plays in nurturing your talented employees
• How to make your onboarding efforts even more effective
• How the skills your employees need RIGHT NOW are already available to them
• Plus more!

A company's greatest wealth is in the expertise and knowledge of its employees. This employee university, if you will, has answers and solutions to many of the issues a company faces but how do you access this? Social learning platforms are helping to open up this treasure trove to increase employee performance and customer satisfaction. Anytime Mentoring is an online mentoring system that provides the freedom for any employee to find a mentor in any area at anytime. This webinar will demonstrate this platform. 

Come check out my webinar Tuesday, November 13th, and learn all about Anytime Mentoring!

You can find the webinar details at www.trainhr.com or by clicking here.

For years, our valued customers have offered us feedback about the value of mentoring and ways that we could improve our mentoring program offerings. Here are some of the comments that have caught our attention and got our wheels churning:

• We would be interested in expanding mentoring within the organization without having to spend a large amount of time matching and managing pairs.
• My company only seems to care about mentoring the special few: new leaders, hi potentials etc.
• Although our company has a program in place, mentoring is not being offered to all employees.
• Although not everyone has the time for a full blown mentoring relationship, a less time consuming relationship where knowledge share between employees takes place would be welcomed.

At Management Mentors, we recognize that this is a component that is necessary for some companies either as a stand-alone mentoring program or as an add-in to an existing mentoring program like MentoringComplete. 

Management Mentors is proud to announce Anytime Mentoring as a solution to the challenge of knowledge sharing among co-workers.

Anytime Mentoring is mentoring that gives a company the ability to expand mentoring throughout the organization and gives the company the ability to tap into its rich employee talent so that it gets shared with everyone, breaks down silo mentalities and creates a level playing field for all employees to be able to develop into more productive and loyal employees.

Think of Anytime Mentoring as “short-term” mentoring that can happen anywhere, at any place, with anyone. You needn’t go through the typical matching prerequisites that a formal match requires. The only matching requirement needed is that someone has expertise in a certain area and is willing to share that expertise with someone who is willing to learn it.

Anytime Mentoring is:

• Designed around the concept of "knowledge share" and allows your employees to easily identify who has what skills and expertise so they can learn from one another.

• Social learning with an intuitive interface that's similar to other popular social networks.

• Entirely web-based -- all you need is Internet access and a browser. This makes it the perfect solution for virtual work environments or people spread out across different offices, branches, states, and even continents.

Our very own, Rene Petrin, will be hosting a webinar this Tuesday, September 18 at 10AM PST / 1:00 EST on How Technology Can Help or Hinder Your Mentoring Program. Come check it out!

Today's mentoring programs are increasingly being created using an online system and the latest technology to communicate. Having such a system allows a Mentoring Program Manager to be able to recruit participants more easily, gather important matching data, use an objective algorithm to match and more easily and quickly manage your pairs. 

This webinar will show you how these things are done using an online and how other technologies can help or hinder. 

Why should you attend: This webinar will demonstrate the capabilities of an online mentoring system and provide insight on what to look for when seeking to add technological capabilities to your mentoring program. Traditional paper and pencil systems take a lot of time on the part of the Mentoring Program Manager. Now you can have a more effective program with more participants and less labor intensity. 

Areas Covered in the Session:

• View 3 models of mentoring:
• Managed mentoring
• Self-directed mentoring
• Group mentoring
• How to recruit your participants
• Sample information that should be captured in a matching form
• How does technology do the matching
• You've matched, now how do you maintain ongoing contact with your participants to ensure success

Who Will Benefit:

• VPs and Heads of HR
• IT
• Training & Development
• Diversity

Our very own, Rene Petrin, will be hosting a webinar this Wednesday, August 15 at 10AM PST / 1:00 EST on group mentoring. Come check it out!

Overview : This webinar will focus on when group mentoring is best used, how the group model can be applied and some of the key challenges involved in group mentoring and techniques to minimize these issues. We will review some of the group dynamics that impact success or failure. 

Why should you attend: Group mentoring is not the most common form of mentoring but it has a place as a strategic tool in developing your talent. Whether you are focused on onboarding new employees or developing existing talent group mentoring may offer an approach that makes a difference.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Defining Group Mentoring
• Advantages and Disadvantages to Group Mentoring
• Roles in Group Mentoring
• Group Techniques to Ensure success
• Common Challenges and Strategies
• Q & A

Who Will Benefit:

• VPs and Heads of HR
• Diversity
• Knowledge Managers
• Training & Development Managers

Attention all bloggers!

(....and those who have dreamed of owning that title!)

Do YOU have some thoughts on mentoring that you would like to share? Management Mentors is interested in your experiences on all things mentoring. If you would like to share your stories about mentoring with other readers in our community, please submit your blog to ranae@management-mentors.com

Your blog must be educational, not promotional.

We would love to feature YOU as our next Guest Blogger!*

Blog ideas:

• Do you have a mentoring success story?
• How have you incorporated diversity into your corporate mentoring program?
• Benefits and challenges faced in a group mentoring program?
• How has your company tackled succession planning using a mentoring program?
• Does your company use a combination of mentoring models (one-on-one, group, self-directed, peer to peer, etc.)? How does that work for your company?
• Are you a mentoring program manager? What has worked for you in this role and what has not worked for you?
• Are you a mentor? Name 5 tips that you have for other mentors.
• Have you had a successful mentoring relationship? Why do you believe it was successful?

Be creative and have fun! We are really looking forward to reading what you come up with; and we are willing to work with you if you feel like you have the ideas but they are not translating to paper as easily as you had hoped.

OK.......it's time to get those creative juices flowing and start writing!

*Management Mentors reserves the right not to publish all blogs submitted to us.

Attention all bloggers!

(....and those who have dreamed of owning that title!)

Do YOU have some thoughts on mentoring that you would like to share? Management Mentors is interested in your experiences on all things mentoring. If you would like to share your stories about mentoring with other readers in our community, please submit your blog to ranae@management-mentors.com

Your blog must be educational, not promotional.

We would love to feature YOU as our next Guest Blogger!*

Blog ideas:

• Do you have a mentoring success story?
• How have you incorporated diversity into your corporate mentoring program?
• Benefits and challenges faced in a group mentoring program?
• How has your company tackled succession planning using a mentoring program?
• Does your company use a combination of mentoring models (one-on-one, group, self-directed, peer to peer, etc.)? How does that work for your company?
• Are you a mentoring program manager? What has worked for you in this role and what has not worked for you?
• Are you a mentor? Name 5 tips that you have for other mentors.
• Have you had a successful mentoring relationship? Why do you believe it was successful?

Be creative and have fun! We are really looking forward to reading what you come up with; and we are willing to work with you if you feel like you have the ideas but they are not translating to paper as easily as you had hoped.

OK.......it's time to get those creative juices flowing and start writing!

*Management Mentors reserves the right not to publish all blogs submitted to us.

Rene Petrin, President and Founder of Management Mentors, will be hosting a live webinar this Thursday, July 12, 2012  at 10:00AM PST / 1:00PM EST titled:

Best Practices for Creating a Professional Mentoring Program

Mentoring is becoming increasingly recognized as one of the most powerful strategies in helping new employees transition to a new company, in assisting existing employees to grow within the organization and is probably the most important strategy for diversity initiatives.  

Many people feel that mentoring is clearly understood, when it often isn't and, as a result, a bad mentoring program can lead to employees getting upset and, in some cases, deciding to leave the company.

If you're thinking about mentoring or have a mentoring program and want to make it better, this program will provide you with useful insights and ideas. 

Why you should attend: Have an expert outline the key components for creating a professional mentoring program. We will cover the basics based upon our 250 best practices standards. Attending this program will allow you to better understand what's involved in creating and implementing a professional mentoring program. If you are thinking of creating a program, this will give you a good foundation for how to do it. If you have an existing program and want to improve it, it will give you useful ideas. 

Areas Covered in the Session:

• What to consider in designing?
• What kind of mentoring model is best for you?
• What to consider in matching?
• What do you cover in training?
• What kind of follow-up do you do with pairs?
• How do you measure success?
• What is the role of the Mentoring Program Manager?
• What technology supports mentoring?

Who Will Benefit:

• VPs of HR
• Diversity
• Training and Development
• Organizational Development
• Knowledge managers

It's simple to register for the webinar, just click this link or visit TrainHR's* website.

*TrainHR is a comprehensive Human Resources training solutions provider. In offering trainings that are valuable, yet cost effective, TrainHR is the ideal medium for Human Resources professionals. HR professionals benefit in numerous ways from these trainings: they can earn continuing education credits from renowned authorities/associations/organizations; they can get expert advice, and get to have the flexibility of viewing recorded webinars at their convenience. Another of the bountiful advantages TrainHR offers is the online interactive participation feature, by which professionals from any part of the world have the opportunity to listen to and converse with some of the best-known experts in the HR Industry. 

Management Mentors announces our latest FREE white paper, Executive Mentoring 101: What It Is and Why It Matters. 

In this white paper, you'll learn:

• The definition of executive mentoring -- what it is and what it isn't 

• How executive mentoring not only benefits the mentoree, but also the mentor

• Tips for navigating an executive mentoring relationship

To download this white paper, simply click this link.

Rene Petrin, President and Founder of Management Mentors, will be hosting a live webinar this Thursday, June 21, 2012  at 10:00AM PST / 1:00PM EST titled:

Common Challenges Faced by Mentoring Program Managers and Strategies on

How to Minimize these Challenges

Monitoring mentoring pairs is a critical factor for a successful program. In this webinar, we'll discuss the most common challenges faced by Mentoring Program Managers and how best to address these. 

Some of the challenges we will deal with are: what to do with unsuccessful matches? How to ensure that pairs meet on a regular basis? How to handle powerful mentors who aren't doing what they should in the relationship? You may also submit your particular challenge in advance to ensure that it is addressed in the webinar.

Areas Covered in the Session:

• Dealing with unsuccessful pairs
• Managing powerful mentors who aren't being good mentors
• Motivating pairs to meet regularly
• Managing expectations of participants
• Getting support from your boss as a Mentoring Program Manager (MPM)

Who Will Benefit:

• VPs of HR
• Diversity
• Training and Development
• Organizational Development
• Knowledge managers

It's simple to register for the webinar, just click this link or visit TrainHR's* website.

*TrainHR is a comprehensive Human Resources training solutions provider. In offering trainings that are valuable, yet cost effective, TrainHR is the ideal medium for Human Resources professionals. HR professionals benefit in numerous ways from these trainings: they can earn continuing education credits from renowned authorities/associations/organizations; they can get expert advice, and get to have the flexibility of viewing recorded webinars at their convenience. Another of the bountiful advantages TrainHR offers is the online interactive participation feature, by which professionals from any part of the world have the opportunity to listen to and converse with some of the best-known experts in the HR Industry.