For organisations it’s also very difficult to decide whether that should make mentoring mandatory or not. Employees, especially younger folks are averse to being imposed anything. So if you mandate it, there’s that natural resistance that builds on. On the other hand if you leave it too loose, you don’t get the immense benefits of mentoring. Summi…[Read more]

When it comes to mentoring, there is no culture better than that among businesses in Germany. The way they mentor their younger employees by attaching them to seasoned seniors, it doesn’t happen anywhere else. Over the centuries they’ve developed an apprenticeship culture. an expert takes a protégé under his/her aegis and nurtures the young one i…[Read more]

Testing times call for cool heads.

They can be depended on to make decisions calmly, manage teams deftly and be emotionally mature.

They deserve promotion ahead of co-workers with “flash and vision, and bold displays of confidence”.

Many managers are too busy to patiently unearth genuine talent. After all, they have other important things on their plates—like impressing their own bosses.