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Date and Time Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 12PM Pacific / 3PM Eastern
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Description

There is a revolution going on today: Learners only want to learn those subjects that matter to them. Learners yearn for freedom and control to create useful results based on their learning efforts. Unfortunately, our solutions continue to cram learners like sardines in tin cans, specifically during exhausting webinars and boring eLearning. On the other hand, enlightened organizations show respect for the learners’ needs. They strive to retain employees and reduce turnover. Enter mentoring, as a growth opportunity to help learners. 

Many learning professionals complain, “I can’t spend all my time on one-on-one mentoring!” But so do the learners.  “My expert mentor is not available.” The problem does not stem from time, but the lack of clear vision and expertise on how to modernize mentoring in today’s learning environment.  We need to recognize that innovative mentoring is about deep learning. It is personalized.  It actually costs less, and involves even less time on the mentors’ end. 

Join us in the webinar! Ray will share with you case studies on bullet-proof mentoring methods. 

Topics to cover:
Why is our concept of mentoring so antiquated? 
What are major shifts in mentoring caused by the pandemic, technology, culture of organizations, and learners’ needs?
Why is mass training no longer the proven technique for learning? 
What are the pivot points of the 6 bullet-proof mentoring methods? 
Apply the proven and tested mentoring methods in virtual training: 
Mentoring by everyone
Peer-to-peer mentoring
Mentoring by projects
Mentoring by the problem-solution discovery
Mentoring through digital tools
Hybrid mentoring for hands-on training
From newbie to expert mentoring
Self-mentoring tools and techniques
Disruptive mentoring platforms

Meet the inspirational young leaders who are helping reduce Africa’s youth unemployment as part of the African Development Bank’s Presidential Youth Advisory Group

Mentoring has been a best practice in business for decades, as soon as researchers proved that employees with mentors were more successful at work than those without. Their findings were: A mentor helps their mentee gain clarity on career goals, develop leadership skills, clarify values and leverage their talents.

The Metaverse is a powerful new virtual medium with the potential to enhance the mentor/mentee relationship. Recent innovations like augmented reality, virtual reality and digital identities, along with best practices from social media, create spaces for rich user interactions that mimic the real world. With the right application, the Metaverse can have a transformative effect on the mentor and mentee. 

The mentorship strategies guide provides employers with step-by-step best-practices to help create positive mentorship relationships in WIL placements

Mentorship is considered a gold standard approach for onboarding new hires. Several Top Fleet Employers have embraced mentorship programs into their onboarding process, helping to cultivate and support a resilient workforce.

A transformational mentorship is a relationship that offers something powerful to both the mentee and the mentor. As a mentee, the trick to fully engaging your mentor lies in finding the right person: someone with whom you can build a relaxed, inspiring camaraderie, driven by curiosity as opposed to the binary instructor-student exchange we normally teach. How do you find this person? Try following these steps:

Look beyond the obvious places. It can be challenging to avoid the traditional teacher-student approach to mentorship when your mentor is a leader within your own organization. Instead, try looking for potential mentors in ecosystems tangential to your work and your interests.
Ask to meet before you ask for mentoring. While someone may seem perfect on paper, they could easily end up being a bad fit once you engage directly. You need to make sure there is a genuine connection, so start small with (virtual) coffee or lunch.
Test the waters. Your ideal mentor should be someone who resists providing you with quick answers, and prefers engaging you in conversation through which you can both learn and grow.
Don’t limit yourself. Just as you can teach and influence your mentor as the mentee, you can mentor others. By teaching someone else, you will also learn to clearly express and communicate your ideas, which is essential to your professional growth.

In the drive to get more women into senior management roles in business, mentoring programs have proliferated both within organisations and across sectors. But the question remains – why haven’t these mentoring relationships had a significant impact on the statistics?