Mentoring Resources & Articles

The latest on mentoring guidelines, news and mentoring software updates from PushFar.

How to Start a Mentoring Program in 6 Steps

 Planning a Mentoring Program
Organisations are now acknowledging the value mentoring brings to the table, and it’s no surprise that the increase in demand is due to the outcomes mentoring has on both employees and organisations. With many organisations directly looking to improve the wellness of their employees whilst ensuring increased satisfaction, implementing a mentoring program is becoming more and more compelling.
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Giving & Receiving Feedback: Top Tips for People Managers, Mentors and Mentees

 Mentoring Feedback
As a people manager or mentor do encourage your team, each employee or your mentee to seek feedback regularly and demonstrate this habit yourself. Feedback is one way of helping another person to consider changing a behaviour. All behaviour conveys a message and is therefore a form of communication
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6 Easy Networking Tips You Need to Know About in 2022

 3 Women Sitting Down with Laptops
Knowing how to network is an essential skill that's becoming increasingly necessary for professionals across the globe. In regards to networking, the circumstances are unique to each individual, however, throughout this article, we explore ways in which you can become more successful at networking and create true connections with others.
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PushFar Board Appointments & Advisory Board

 Appointment of PushFar's Board
PushFar, announces its new board of directors and advisory board, with the appointment of Martin Sherwood as a Chairman of Board of Directors, Robin Wilkinson as Financial Director, and Martin Kirke as Chairman of the Advisory Board, effective of 1 July 2019
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5 Reasons Why Students on Technology-Focused Courses Should Have a Mentor

 Technology Students
We live in a fast-paced, quickly adapting and progressing world, and this is particularly true of the technology industry. Few industries move at such speeds and drive fundamental changes impacting all industries, as that of technology. Keeping up with technological advances, improvements and ultimately positioning yourself
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Why Mentoring is Key in Global Mobility

 Finding a Mentor
In a recent survey from BGRS, the third most challenging factor for the Globally Mobility industry in managing Assignments, after compliance and cost containment, was ‘Assignee and Family Adjustment’. I can understand why. For employees travelling to new locations, there are often steep learning curves and vast adjustments
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The Importance of Mentoring for Disability Inclusion

 Finding a Mentor
Mentoring is an extremely powerful and effective resource for people of all backgrounds, walks of life and indeed during a wide-range of circumstances in life. Mentors can be a vital support both personally and professionally. At PushFar, we focus on professional mentoring across a number of different categories
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5 Ways to Find a Mentor

 Finding a Mentor
Finding a mentor can be a difficult and time-consuming task – it’s part of the reason why we setup PushFar. However, we thought we would take a step back and write an article about how to really find a mentor who will help you to develop your career and guide you through workplace challenges. The first thing to understand about mentoring
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5 Ways to Keep on Top of Your Goals and Aims in 2019

 Meet Your Goals
The new year is here, and you have likely either set yourself some new year’s resolutions or at the very least thought about the things you would like to achieve in 2019. And that’s fantastic! Setting goals, targets and aims is a brilliant first step to improving yourself, your career and the world you surround yourself with. The challenge now
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5 Ways to Get Your Mentoring Programmes Working Effectively in 2019

 Make Mentoring Programmes Work
In the recent past, employee engagement, staff retention and productivity have become more challenging. With a flourishing jobs market, it’s increasingly tricky to keep employees engaged, working effectively and ultimately happy. And yet, more and more individuals are now looking for mentoring to help them to get ahead in their career, industry and job
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Mentor Matching: 5 Important Factors & Considerations

 Manage Mentor Matching
Mentor matching is a tricky task and there are a huge number of factors and considerations that come into play. Ultimately, matches are not always right. For whatever reason, it’s important to recognise that mentor matches won’t be 100% right all the time and that it is okay to end a mentoring relationship ahead of when you had
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Diversity and Inclusion – How Mentoring Can Help Your Organisation

 Diversity & Inclusion Mentoring
Diversity and inclusion, D&I, LGBT+ Groups, BAME, equality, disability, the list goes on and on. It is all extremely important to consider if you want your employees to feel engaged, empowered and ultimately succeed within your organisation
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8 Tips to Hire Faster and Find the Perfect Candidate

 Hire Candidates Faster
Hiring faster and finding that perfect candidate, the holy grail of recruitment! More and more business are looking to take their hiring in-house and away from expensive recruitment agencies, here are 8 tips that can help you hire faster and still find the perfect candidate
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