Mentoring Resources & Articles

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

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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12 Essential Tips All New University Students Should Follow

 Students Lecture
The shift from school to university can often feel daunting and overwhelming, it’s impossible not to feel a rollercoaster of emotions. It’s not only a change in education but a dramatic transformation for your independence away from your parents. Preparing for your new life at university is an exciting time and shouldn’t be spoiled by worrying thoughts.
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The Importance of Generating a Positive Personal Experience

 Customer Experience
Whether entering a new mentoring relationship, signing contracts, closing a deal, networking at a professional event or as an organisation providing customer service, if you can create and generate a positive experience, it will help everyone, significantly. Thinking about a customer's experience means paying attention
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Most Recent Articles

What makes an Effective Leader?

 Effective Leadership
Leaders often run large-scale teams with several direct reports. All of you in those teams are, of course, interested in personal development opportunities, including a visible and realistic career path with the possibility of upward progression, or to other parallel roles within the organisation. So, leaders have an important role to play in enabling growth and development for their team, whilst recognising that it is the individual employee who owns the responsibility for their career.
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What is Executive Mentoring?

 Executive Mentoring
With mentoring becoming a more popular choice to help support and aid employees with career development and studies showcasing the true value mentoring can bring to an organisation. Many organisations are now implementing executive mentoring into their learning and development processes.
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12 Tips to Create a Positive Work Culture

 Happy Working Culture
The culture of an organization can determine the success or failure of a business. This is why it is so important to create a positive work environment. How people feel about their job often affects their productivity, and if they are not happy in their workplace, they might end up quitting.
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How PushFar’s Mentoring Platform is Removing Unconscious Bias

 Unconscious Bias Mentor Matching
At PushFar, we’re fortunate enough to support hundreds of organisations and tens of thousands of mentors and mentees along the way in their mentoring journey. With more and more mentoring programs shifting towards matching and automation, we explore how our algorithms and matching processes are removing unconscious bias and opening mentoring to more and more participants, every day.
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How to Structure a Productive Mentoring Meeting

 Mentoring Meeting
Within any mentoring relationship, the primary purpose is to help the mentee progress and grow, both personally and professionally. A mentoring meeting or session can be described as a mentor and mentee coming collectively to share expertise, knowledge and solve problems.
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What is Group Mentoring? - Everything You Need to Know

 Group Mentoring
Mentoring is becoming more prevalent for organisations across the globe, with many now using it as their primary strategy for professional development. When we think of mentoring, we typically think of it in the traditional 1-to-1 context where a mentor and mentee come together.
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25 Diversity, Equality and Inclusion Statistics You Should Know About

 Diverse Workforce
Over the last few years promoting diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) within the workforce has been a priority for organisations across the globe. Organisations are now recognising the significance of building a diverse workforce, it's no longer something organisations say is necessary but something that affects everything they do.
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5 Smart Tips That Immediately Improve Your Hiring Process

 A Job Interview
Hiring new talent is important for the growth of your business. As your team grows, you want to attract good people to your company. Even then, improving your hiring process is more than simply sitting there and looking at resumes and doing quick interviews. Your business can’t afford to make a bad hire.
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5 Future Skills Every HR Department Should Have to Prepare for 2022

 HR Future Technology
The future of HR is not what it used to be. New technologies are constantly being developed, and while this has its benefits, some challenges come with them. For example, the HR department will be responsible for finding employees who are good at what they do and fit into the company's culture.
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What is Mentoring? – Definitions, History and Guides

 Two People Mentoring
Mentoring, Reverse Mentoring, Mentor, Mentee, or even Mentoree – all these words are often thrown around and can, understandably cause confusion. We’ve already covered one of the most asked questions – the difference between mentoring and coaching.
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