Webinars

 

Mentoring, Sponsoring, and Coaching – Increasing your R.O.M. by Leveraging Every Relationship

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Thursday. April 19 2012
9am PST / 10am MST / 11am CST / 12 EST

Within every group of people various relationships form that contribute to the growth and development of those people. From “mentoring” and “sponsoring” to “coaching” and “training,” there are a myriad of ways that people can and do develop each other. You could ignore them or you could leverage them. Join us to explore the differences of the relationships, learn how and when to promote each one, and discover how to ensure their effectiveness. Don’t let these relationships be a missed opportunity when they can be your strategic advantage.

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Mentoring Advisory Boards – Gathering Thought Leaders to Power Your Vision

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Thursday, July 19 2012
9am PST / 10am MST / 11am CST / 12 EST

You might be the leader of your mentoring program, but if you are single-handedly administering and strategizing it, you are crippling your program. There is power in champions to help you think, strategize, and plan for effectiveness and success. Join us to discover the muscle of the Advisory Board. We’ll explore tactics and strategies for forming the board and leveraging their wisdom and commitment to your vision.

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From Idle to Innovative – Leveraging Mentoring to Evolve Your Workforce

Register NowThursday, October 25 2012
9am PST / 10am MST / 11am CST / 12 EST

When red tape, politics, and policy have paralyzed your workforce, it’s time to shake things up! Mentoring is just your solution - a structured way for people to discover new and innovative ways to approach work, challenges, and projects. Join us to explore best practices for leveraging a mentoring program to drive a cultural mindset shift. When people are idling and you need them to innovate, look to mentoring to turbo-charge your success!

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Past Webinars

 

Metrics, Trends, and Benchmarks – Measuring the Success of your Mentoring Initiative

Tuesday, January 31, 2012
9am PST / 10am MST / 11am CST / 12 EST

Your mentoring program needs to be significant, not only to your participants but to your organization. To justify its existence and laud its achievements, we must measure its impact. From surveys to feedback to testimonials to case studies, we’ll explore the various ways you can measure that impact. Join us to discover how best-in-class programs are demonstrating the success of their mentoring programs year after year.

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Smart Mentoring – Architecting a Business-Impacting Program that Ensures a High R.O.M.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012
9am PST / 10am MST / 11am CST / 12 EST

When your priorities include people and profits, don’t ignore the power of mentoring programs. Architected correctly it can be your strategic advantage instead of your missed opportunity. Join us to explore the proven 7-step process for designing smart mentoring programs that contribute to the success of your bottom line and your talent. We’ll look at best (and worst) practices discovered by top-of-the-class mentoring programs. Make 2012 the year to benefit from a Return on Mentoring (R.O.M.)

 

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Train to Sustain: Raising your Return on Mentoring by Effectively Training Mentors and Protégés

Thursday, December 8, 2011
9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00pm EST

If mentoring is full of potential, how does it become a missed opportunity? Mentoring Leaders assume that people know how to mentor and be mentored.

If you need your mentoring program to effectively drive an organizational strategy, then you better be sure your participants are winning at mentoring. And if you want your people to win, you need to show them how.

Join us to explore the impact of training mentoring participants and discover the strategies to just that and to do it unobtrusively.

In this webinar you will discover:

• The critical times to train mentors and protégés
• The types of training that work best
• The 5 essential mentoring conversations that all participants should be having
• The resources and tools your participants will need to experience a mentoring win

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Moxie for Managers: Evolve From Manager into Middle Leader

Thursday, November 17, 2011
9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00n EST

Isn’t it time to stop managing and start leading?

Why just settle for a title when you can make a difference?

Join us to discover how to find the moxie in the middle (your own and your people’s) and tap into this strategic
advantage for your organization.

We’ll explore how to evolve into a middle leader that instigates, influences, and effects change in any organization by understanding the behavioral economics and cognitive biases that are driving every human being’s actions.

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Making Mentoring Matter in Diversity – How to Use Smart Mentoring to Drive the Inclusion Conversation

Wednesday, August 24, 2011
9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00n EST

When organizations like PG&E and Southern California Edison are serious about driving diversity and inclusion initiatives, they use smart mentoring to ensure success at all levels of their organization.
With smart mentoring, participants are effective at mentoring, which makes mentoring effective at driving an inclusion initiative. We'll explore how to establish the strategy, structure, and relevance your program requires to be the effective tool you need it to be.

We’ll cover:

• 9 strategies that mentoring can drive forward
• The 7 vital steps for architecting a smart mentoring initiative like PG&E and SCE
• 5 critical elements for successful mentoring programs
• Resources participants need to drive effective mentoring
• Best and worst practices for mentoring success
• How to elevate the importance of mentoring in any organization

5 Learning Objectives:

1. To learn the 7-step formula for architecting and implementing an effective, scalable, and sustainable mentoring initiative

2. To understand how to use mentoring to impact people’s work effectiveness, job readiness, leader-readiness, and network-strength

3. To discover how to use mentoring to drive key organizational strategies

4. To learn how to elevate the importance of mentoring to all levels of the organization

5. To discover proven ways for empowering others in driving the sustainability of any mentoring initiative in any size organization

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Making Mentoring Matter - How Southern California Edison is Using Smart Mentoring to Address a Changing Workforce

Thursday, August 11, 2011
9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00n EST

The workforce is changing. Over 76 million baby-boomers will soon be retiring – an estimated 30% of working employees today – potentially crippling the workforce. Are you proactively using a smart mentoring program to get ahead of the change? Or are you just hoping it won’t impact you at all?

Join us to learn how cutting-edge organizations like Southern California Edison are using smart mentoring to address the impending workforce change. We’ll talk with Ed Robinson, the Director of Community Partnerships at Southern California Edison to understand why he launched a smart mentoring program, how they are leveraging it, and why it is already effective.

We’ll also explore how you can architect a smart mentoring program that allows you to proactively address the inevitable and looming workforce changes.

We’ll cover:

• 9 strategies that mentoring can drive forward, including the ones SCE is driving
• The 7 vital steps for architecting a smart mentoring initiative like SCE
• 5 critical elements for successful mentoring programs
• Resources participants need to drive effective mentoring
• Best and worst practices

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Designing and Leading a Smart Mentoring Program that Uncovers the Superheroes in your Organization

Tuesday, April 19, 2011
7:00am PST / 8:00am MST / 9:00am CST / 10:00am EST

Mentoring without strategy is like a fish without water – it’s destined for demise.

And a people strategy without mentoring is like a goldfish in a bowl – its ability to impact is limited by glass walls.

Join us to learn the art and science behind designing and leading an effective, scalable, sustainable, and resilient mentoring program that drives your most important strategies and uncovers the superheroes in your organization.

Mentoring is the most cost-effective development tool available. When you set it up to be strategic and resilient, you can catapult its impact. With the right formula you can impact your organizational strategies and successfully encourage people to (1) own their own success, (2) gain cross-functional visibility and exposure, (3) improve work-effectiveness and job-readiness, and (4) contribute to the growth and development of their peers.

We'll explore how to establish the strategy, the foundation, the structure, the incentives, the expectations, and the relevance that your program needs to scale, sustain, and prosper.

In this webinar you will discover:

• The 9 people strategies that mentoring can drive forward
• The 7 vital steps for architecting a resilient mentoring program
• Various solutions available to ensure scalability and sustainability
• How to design + structure an effective experience for an unlimited number of participants
• The resources and tools your participants will need to drive their mentoring relationships
• The worst practices and the best practices for mentoring initiative success

Smart Mentoring for Smart Strategies:
Designing a Resilient and Brilliant Mentoring Program to Drive Your Organizational Strategies

Tuesday, January 25, 2011
9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00pm EST

Mentoring without strategy is like a fish without water – it’s destined for demise.

And a people strategy without mentoring is like a goldfish in a bowl – its ability to impact is limited by glass walls.
Join us to learn the art and science behind launching an effective, scalable, sustainable, and resilient mentoring program that drives your most important strategies and significantly impacts people and your organization.

Mentoring is the most cost-effective development tool available. When you set it up to be strategic and resilient, you can catapult its impact. With the right formula you can impact your organizational strategies and successfully encourage people to (1) own their own success, (2) gain cross-functional visibility and exposure, (3) improve work-effectiveness and job-readiness, and (4) contribute to the growth and development of their peers.

We'll explore how to establish the strategy, the foundation, the structure, the incentives, the expectations, and the relevance that your program needs to scale, sustain, and prosper.

In this webinar you will discover:

• The 9 people strategies that mentoring can drive forward
• The 7 vital steps for architecting a resilient mentoring program
• Various solutions available to ensure scalability and sustainability
• How to design + structure an effective experience for an unlimited number of participants
• The resources and tools your participants will need to drive their mentoring relationships
• The worst practices and the best practices for mentoring initiative success

 

Making Mentoring Matter: Enhancing and Improving An Existing Program While Elevating the Importance of Mentoring

Wednesday, January 26, 2011
9:00am PST / 10:00am MST / 11:00am CST / 12:00pm EST

Mentoring programs can easily lose their steam. They start off with great intentions, but sustaining the excitement for mentoring and for your program remains the ongoing challenge.

Get ready to discover what it takes to make your mentoring program matter – all the time!

The ongoing success of your mentoring program depends on how well Mentors, Mentees, and Managers play well together. Join us to discover the dynamics behind these relationships and how to influence their motivation to support their success and yours. We’ll explore the foundation for sabotage and strategies for success.

When you get these people to play well together, your program will no longer be just good; it will be great!

Join us to learn:

• The 5 ways we mess up mentoring program sustainability and scalability
• How people sabotage their success (and others’ success) in mentoring
• Why people are so quick to blame your program for their mediocre experience
• How to rescue any program from a state of blah
• How to refresh, and reignite participants' commitment for generating effective mentoring
• How to make your program resourceful, resilient, and brilliant

 

Capturing the Tribal Knowledge at Utility Companies!

REPLAY...COMING SOONHow PG&E and Southern California Edison are using Mentoring to Create
a Knowledge-Sharing Culture Before 40% of their Workforce Retires

With 40% of the workforce about to walk out the door, what are you doing to capture the intellectual property and tribal knowledge that will inevitably walk out with them?

Join us to learn how two of the country’s leading utilities are capturing that knowledge using high and low-touch mentoring solutions.

Mentoring is the most cost-effective and powerful tool available and will drive at least 8 employee initiatives simultaneously while boosting strategic business goals. Mentoring has the power to bring a culture together to enhance people’s effectiveness, productivity, diversity, recruiting, on-boarding, succession planning, leadership development, and cross-functional improvement.

But having a mentoring program does not mean that you have a mentoring culture. Without strategy, scalability, and sustainability, you are missing out on the business-impacting opportunities that mentoring offers.