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From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Talked About Leadership

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A lot of water cooler conversation at work is around the topic of bosses. There is something wrong with all of them… at least in the eyes of most. Complaining is part of sharpening our filtering skills to sort out right from wrong and reaches its highest form when we are confident enough to bitch about things to our colleagues. There are differences in that conversation depending on which floor of the building it happens… Read More »From the Archives of Make HR Happen – Those Times We Talked About Leadership

Your Background Check Is Completed – What Does It Say?

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You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. ~ Abraham Lincoln There is a lot of hype about personal branding and what it can do for your career. There seems to be a prevailing belief that marketing hyperbole can right all wrongs, polish all rough edges, and hide embarrassing events. After all, this technique is… Read More »Your Background Check Is Completed – What Does It Say?

Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Stories About Minotaurs and Manatees (Not Really!)

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    The blogger’s nightmare is when his muse is instructing him to be creative in a serious and positive sense, but something keeps whispering to his brain that there is something really funny about all this. It was a tough job, but Monday through Friday was published with a certain amount of decorum. Today it is time to play with the words a bit. Technically, Mentor and Minotaur are heterographs different in spelling and… Read More »Reviewing This Week on Make HR Happen – Stories About Minotaurs and Manatees (Not Really!)

Part III – Formal Mentoring Programs

There is a similarity between all mentoring programs whether they are in academia, non-profit, service organizations or industry. It all begins with a cadre of individuals that have the know-how and patience to serve as a mentor and willing participants that understand that they don’t know it all and have a lust for knowledge. To establish a formal program for mentorship in a business, there are threads of conflict that must be resolved before a… Read More »Part III – Formal Mentoring Programs

Part II – The Art of Being a Mentee

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In addition to the duties of a mentor, the protégé, disciple, apprentice or student being instructed has responsibilities to make mentoring systems work. It may seem to most people as a top-down arrangement at first glance, but one thing is true in all mentorship programs: The mentee is responsible for making the system work. This is not typically a supervisory/subordinate relationship, but one of partnering to impart wisdom and knowledge to the mentee. Often when… Read More »Part II – The Art of Being a Mentee