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

The 9 Most Common Soft Skills Employers Want

 Employee Soft Skills
Candidates who maintain strong soft skills are currently in high demand by employers. Although every job specification declares the hard skills required, there are still particular soft skills companies look for when bringing people into the organisation
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Leadership Skills to Look for in a Mentor

 Learning on Laptop
Your mentor needs to be able to teach and lead in a way that will be most productive for you. In this article, we take a look at qualities to look for in a mentor.
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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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PushFar provides a wealth of mentoring, coaching and learning resources, alongside our software, to help both participants and program managers to make the most of mentoring and coaching programs. On our mentoring platform we also include training videos and regularly host mentoring training webinars.
Guidelines for Mentees

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Guidelines for Mentors

Mentor Guidelines

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The ultimate guide to mentoring

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The benefits of mentoring

Benefits of Mentoring

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Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion

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Most Recent Articles

LGBT+ Mentoring – Why Diversity Mentoring Matters and Its Impact

 LGBT+ Mentoring
Mentoring is often cited as an extremely effective way to support diversity and inclusion initiatives and agendas within organisations, and with good reason. Mentoring is the act of one individual helping another to develop, progress and grow in their career
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Introducing PushFar Video Calling

 PushFar Video Calling - Mentoring Platform
Since PushFar’s platform was first developed and launched, we have continually strived to push our technology further (no ‘PushFar’ pun intended) and evolve to help facilitate more meaningful mentoring connections, engagements and goal-supporting functionality
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10 Tips for People Managers To Attract Good People into your Organisation

 Hiring Talent - Job Interview
In over 20 years working in the areas of people development and talent management, I have noticed several constant and reliable themes about the important role of managers which run true and consistent across industries, functions, sectors, geographies, culture, and fashionable trends
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4 Ways to be More Effective at Work

 Productive People - Computer
Finding ways to be more productive and efficient at work is a skill that is highly desired by professionals all over the world. At times, particularly with the rise in remote working, it’s easy to feel that the number of tasks and the complexity of them is increasing exponentially each day
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Mentoring vs Coaching: The Key Differences and Benefits

 Coaching versus Mentoring - The Differences
In March 2021, PushFar and our partners at Sheridan Resolutions jointly hosted a webinar entitled ‘Mentoring vs Coaching: What, Why & When’, aimed at looking at the key differences between mentoring and coaching, when to use both learning practices and what the key benefits are
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6 Habits of Highly Effective and Productive People

 Habits of Effective People
Being productive, or “effective” consists of, primarily, achieving planned results and developing tasks in a competent and productive way. This sounds simple enough and in some regards it is. It is easy to conclude that this skill is desired by most organisations
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Improve Diversity and Inclusion with Mentoring

 Diversity and Inclusion Mentoring
Mentoring is often considered as a vital and integral part to the success of diversity and inclusion employee resource groups, initiatives and focuses. In some respects, it’s obvious that it would be. By providing employees with mentors who they can relate to
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The Six W’s: What are they and How Can You Use them in Coaching?

 Coaching Virtually
You may have heard of the Six W’s but then again, maybe you haven’t. Either way, don’t worry, we’ve got you covered in this article. The Six W’s are six words, unsurprisingly, beginning with the letter W, to help coaches and the individuals they are coaching
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PushFar and Sheridan Resolutions Announce Strategic Partnership

 PushFar and Sheridan Resolutions
PushFar and Sheridan Resolutions Ltd are delighted to announce a strategic partnership to further mentoring and coaching impact through a digital platform.
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Reverse Mentoring - What is Reverse Mentoring, How Does it Work and What are the Benefits?

 Reverse Mentoring
Reverse mentoring is one type of mentoring that has seen a huge increase lately. But what really is reverse mentoring, how can it help individuals and organisations, and why might you consider reverse mentoring?
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