Business Mentoring Matters

Last month, we announced that Engagedly, Inc. had acquired Mentoring Complete and other related content assets from Management Mentors.

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Back in 1989 when Rene Petrin founded Management Mentors, Inc., the first George Bush was president. A gallon of gas cost roughly 97 cents. The founder of Facebook was getting ready to enter kindergarten. And Taylor Swift was getting ready to enter the world. While much has changed on the planet since Petrin hung his virtual shingle, one thing has remained true: people still crave mentoring—and they always will.

Last month, we invited Sri Chellappa, president of Engagedly, to talk about mentoring's role in employee engagement and the mistakes companies make when trying to boost engagement.

Last week, we talked with Sri Chellappa, the president of Engagedly, about how mentoring can help boost employee engagement .

Here's a "glass is half full/half empty" conundrum. Last fall, Gallup reported that the number of engaged employees in the U.S. rose to 34% "tying its highest level since Gallup began reporting the national figure in 2000."

It's not unusual for organizations to seriously consider launching a mentoring program during Q1.

In 1989, a gallon of gas in the U.S. averaged 97 cents, and a U.S. postage stamp was a quarter. Microsoft Office was released for the first time, and Batman (the version with Michael Keaton) was a huge hit. The late George H. W. Bush became the 41st U.S. president, and the Berlin Wall came down.

In 2019, Management Mentors will be turning 30. By then, we'll have been blogging pretty regularly for a full decade.

Mindfulness has become a popular buzzword, and for good reason: it promotes stress reduction and the calming of racing thoughts by encouraging us to come back to the present moment.