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Six minutes. That’s the time managers spend training their employees every six months in companies with 100 to 500 employees, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And the percentage of professionals with a mentor? Just 37%, according to a 2019 survey. Although these numbers have been getting worse over the years, the pandemic offers corporate America an enormous opportunity to rethink the way employees are trained, mentored, and generally taken care of. [Atlantic] |
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‘Mentor in chief.’ The Black American fashion stylist, creative director, and journalist André Leon Talley was an editor at Vogue magazine and a pioneer in the global fashion industry. Throughout his fascinating, often complicated life, he also generously supported emerging designers, mentoring a select few with tough love and creative inspiration. “There was no limit to the amount of support or guidance he gave,” said one fashion designer Talley befriended at New York Fashion Week in 2010. [NYT] |
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‘Be you. Be true.’ Ever been bombarded by so much conflicting input that you don’t know which way to turn? That’s what happened to one of our senior partners when he was just starting out. “I was really, really nervous” about an important meeting, he told us, “because I got so much different advice from different colleagues.” He also got incredibly helpful counsel from a close mentor, who told him: “You will do it, and you will be great. Be you. Be true. Be authentic.” Ultimately, he did—and he was. |
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Mentorship that matters. In our new series My Rookie Moment, we ask senior colleagues to share their most inspiring and formative early-career experiences. Watch episode five for stories about the mentors who helped boost the confidence and bring out the best in their mentees, as well as the various bumps they experienced along the way—like when another senior partner was told that he had not only slouched his way through one of the first meetings he’d ever led but also failed to connect and engage with his audience.
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