Helping Line Managers become successful Talent Managers...

If you are keen to develop talent in your team and your organisation, then thinking about how you will develop people is a priority. How can you create a fertile learning environment in your team?

On one level, mentoring is instinctive. You can learn tools and techniques to become a better mentor, and there is definitely a blend of skills that makes mentoring easier to do and which will help you to run the session. But what you might not be prepared for

Agreeing to become a mentor is the easy part. Believe it or not, when HR professionals try to get mentoring programmes off the ground, one of the most vexing problems is the “matching” process.

Many of our readers are taking leave across the Summer, so we decided to revisit mentoring. A topic that has struck a chord with many of you over the last couple of years. I hope that you are enjoying your time off work or are about to! This blog is part one of three and it makes sense that the best and most insightful place to begin is defining what we mean by a mentor.

Over the last 10 years or so we’ve grown used to stories of unethical corporate behaviours, from Enron’s accounting tricks to Oxfam turning a blind eye to the behaviour of its leaders in stricken countries.