Great leaders need great mentors to support them through their complex journey and provide reliable counsel and advice.

Bad mentors can go absent, sap your energy or embroil you in their paranoia. Here are five tips for tackling a toxic relationship.

Effective mentoring is a valuable but often overlooked method.

In the initial stages of your career, one of the most important things you can do is build relationships that will have a significant impact on your life over time. These five relationships can accelerate your path to a promotion, increase your visibility within an organization, and stretch you beyond your comfort zone into to the leader you aspire to be. Mentor: A mentor can help you broaden your functional expertise, grow your emotional intelligence, and learn your company’s unwritten rules. Sponsor: While mentors give you advice and perspective, sponsors advocate on your behalf and in some cases, directly present you with career advancement opportunities. Partner: A partner is an ally or peer who can serve as a sounding board to broaden your perspective. This relationship is fueled by trust, a shared drive to succeed, and the recognition that you can do better together. Competitor: Competition between peers is inevitable. And, when used correctly, it leads to improved performance, breakthrough ideas, and greater drive to get things done. Mentee: Becoming a mentor will teach you how to bring out the best in others, recognize their strength, give feedback, and coach. In turn, it will push you to be better and to strive for more.

Research has shown time and time again that employees who have mentors tend to succeed with job promotions, salary growth, and decreased burnout. But in a time of social distancing, it’s become harder to meet new people and form mentor-mentee relationships. Despite the challenges to socializing in person, there are still ways to connect with potential mentors.

A study shows that a fundamental flaw of optional mentorship programs is that the wrong people sign up.

It doesn’t have to feel draining.

The numbers of women in C-suite positions hasn’t budged since 2019, here are some ways to get things back on track.

From local nonprofits to international trade negotiations at Insight, Laura Schiesl Vega enables others to achieve their goals

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Talent development is an informal, day-to-day process.

Are you open about the areas where you want help? Respectful of your mentor’s time and advice? Here are the characteristics that can make you someone whom other people would like to guide, from men…

As we progress in our careers our passion has a tendency to wane. We often forget why we started down the path in the first place. The young remind us why we started …

Micky Onvural turns to close friends and fellow CEOs for guidance, but she also uses whimsical exercises to shift perspectives.

Currently, 60% of male managers in the workplace say they're uncomfortable with mentoring, working one-on-one or socializing with a woman, according to a survey released by LeanIn.org and SurveyMonkey. That's a 33% increase from last year.

Taking a better-safe-than-sorry approach is unfair to your employees.

Julia Taylor Kennedy and Pooja Jain-Link

A new report from the Center for Talent Innovation highlights the importance of sponsorship, as distinct from mentorship—an essential business relationship that is frequently misunderstood and unrecognized but crucial for talent development and diversity and inclusion efforts.

We need to change how we think about mentorship. Too many people still think of a mentor like Yoda -- an older sage, descending from his lofty perch to deliver timeless wisdom that will guide them along the trajectory of their careers.

It takes a concentrated effort, but it’s good for the organization.

Bill Dogterom shares about mentoring and the shared journey on episode #129 of Teaching in Higher Ed. If they know that you really do have their best interests at heart, they’ll teach you how to teach…

Great episode on mentoring with Beth Buelow and Geoff Woods

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Research shows that mentors are an important and valuable asset for career planning. Everyone from Martha Stewart to Kid President to your high school...