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What Mentoring Can Do to Help High Achievers—and You

Any Discussion of How to Boost the performance of staff must include mentoring. You can mentor your own employees, participate in a formal program within your organization to help talented staff members advance, or mentor in both work and career particular individuals outside your organization, including relatives and friends. There are numerous candidates as mentees out there.

Ambitious managers and employees are looking for executives and other higher-level managers who will agree to help them up a career ladder that has fewer rungs than it had in the past, owing to today’s flatter organizations. These individuals are searching for managers and executives who will cheer them on ...

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