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From buzzwords to benefits: The real impact of employee mentoring

Insperity

Employee mentoring programs aren’t just buzzwords to add to job descriptions and career pages. This is where having a strong employee mentoring program can make the difference between someone who may be quiet quitting at their desk and someone who’s feeling more plugged in to their team and the company’s mission than ever before.

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A Look at How Brad D. Smith Motivated and Inspired Intuit Employees

Success

Smith’s unconventional motivation fostered success In 2006, when he was senior vice president of Intuit’s Small Business Division, he told his team he would put on a 1920s bathing suit and jump in a pond if they met the launch deadline for the latest version of QuickBooks. Mentoring served him as well.

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9 creative and cost-effective employee training and development ideas

Insperity

Unfortunately, many small business owners don’t have the budget for big-ticket seminars or workshops, so they assume all company-sponsored professional development is simply out of reach. Sadly, this is often to the detriment of their business, and their bottom line. Establish a mentoring program. Uncover hidden talent.

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Discover the Formula for Happy Employees

Success

Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, the North Carolina-based business analytics software company, follows a seemingly simple philosophy: Treat employees like they’re making a difference, and they will. Achor was a teaching assistant for Harvard’s positive psychology course, taught by his mentor, Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D.

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Episode 250: 5 Days with John Poelstra

Productivityist

John, in addition to over 25 years of professional experience working with people and organizations, he is an experienced coach, consultant, and mentor–backed by credentials as a Certified Professional Co-active Coach (CPCC) with the Coaches Training Institute and an Associate Certified Coach (ACC) through the International Coach Federation.

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10 Rules for Employee Retention Your Competition Will Hate

Insperity

Find or become a mentor who is a trusted source for employees to ask questions and receive knowledge. Are there any tools, equipment, software or resources that could make their job easier? A new report says that 61 percent of small businesses worry about sourcing enough candidates for key positions. Avoid new job titles.

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How to Break Up with Your Business Partner

Success

I worked with my partner since the 1980s at both a big bank and a small business. He is 25 years older, and he was my mentor early in my career. I made the mistake of assuming that within the next few years he’d be in his early 70s and ready to retire, which was part of my vision of eventually running the business alone.