84% of these companies have workplace mentoring programs today.
What are Fortune 500 companies?
This type of mentoring happens when one person provides personalized attention and tailored advice to a mentee.
What is One-on-One Mentoring?
This famous author was a mentor to television superstar Oprah Winfrey.
Who is Maya Angelou?
This term defines an individual who receives dedicated support, mentorship, and guidance from a more experienced person, known as a mentor, to advance their skills, knowledge, and career.
What is Protégé?
This Employee Inclusion Group offers mentorships to assist in supporting and bringing necessary awareness to employees with disabilities and caregivers to help create a safe space where all can thrive.
What is the ABILITY People with Disabilities and Caregivers Network?
This classic poem may have originated the name “Mentor”.
What is Homer’s The Odyssey?
This occurs when one or more mentors work with several mentees at one time.
What is Group Mentoring?
This multi-millionaire mentored Facebook startup Mark Zuckerberg.
Who is Steve Jobs?
An individual with expertise who can help develop the career of another person is known as this.
What is a mentor?
Mentors from this Employee Inclusion Group offer advice and provide support and resources to veterans and military families.
What is the CENVET Veterans and Military Families Network?
Created in 2002 by the Harvard School of Public health, this month is dedicated to raising awareness of mentoring, recruiting mentors for young people and promoting mentorship within organizations.
What is National Mentoring Month?
This type of mentoring involves the interaction of individuals who are at a similar level or stage in their careers.
What is Peer Mentoring?
According to his autobiography, this U.S. founder and inventor was mentored by Philadelphia merchant Thomas Denham.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
In this stage of mentoring, two individuals enter into a mentoring relationship where both parties seek a positive and enjoyable relationship that would justify the extra time and effort required for mentoring.
What is the Initiation Stage?
A mentorship with this Employee Inclusion Group encourages LGBTQIA+ community members and allies to bring their most authentic selves to work, and helps to create an environment where employees feel encouraged to be fully engaged in their careers.
What is the cPRIDE LGBTQIA+ Network?
This is the #1 eLearning platform for creating workplace training, building engaging courses, allows for collaborations and content sharing.
What is Articulate 360?
This type of mentoring connects a mentor and mentee electronically.
What is Virtual Mentoring?
This music executive turned airline owner credits Sir Freddie Laker of Laker Airways for much of his success in developing Virgin Atlantic Airways.
Who is Richard Branson?
This type of relationship develops simultaneously and is not managed or specifically recognized as a mentoring relationship within a larger organization.
What is Informal Mentoring?
This Employee Inclusion Group offers a mentorship focused on developing women as leaders and preparing them to take on leadership opportunities at all levels of the company.
What is the I.N.S.P.I.R.E. Women’s Network?
This was the year that a book by Ann Murry, titled Mentoria: The Young Ladies' Instructor, introduced the word “mentor” for the first time in print in the United States.
What is 1778?
Mentoring that often involves a “Junior” person mentoring a “Senior” Person.
What is Reverse Mentoring?
This 19th Century philosopher has been quoted to count Henry David Thoreau as his mentor despite being more than 14 years his senior.
Who is Ralph Waldo Emerson?
This type of mentor can be a rich source of information about people in procedures to newer, more senior members of an organization.
What is a Subordinate Mentor?
This Employee Inclusion Group provides mentors to give peer support for employees of all racial and ethnic backgrounds through networking, mentoring and coaching.
What is the MOSAIC Multicultural Network?