Mentors and sponsors can play a pivotal role in your career. Here’s how to find the best champion for your success!
Do You Need a Sponsor or a Mentor?
Search Results for: social media mentor
5 Ways to Make the Most of Your Mentorships
In GovLoop’s recent webinar, “Making the Most of Your Mentorships,” we explored tips and tricks for nurturing mutually-beneficial mentor relationships.
The Altruistic Way to Advance Your Career: Peer Mentoring
Learn how helping someone out can boost your career.
New Quiz! Do You Need a Mentor, Coach or Champion?
It’s no secret that professional relationships are a career asset. Just look at the success of LinkedIn. The social media platform is so successful because it helps facilitate relationships that are critical for moving millions of careers forward. But sometimes it can be tricky to identify which kind of relationship is most helpful at particular stages inRead… Read more »
How to Develop a Workplace Mentoring Program
We explored the many benefits of building and implementing a successful workplace mentoring program for government employees in our first article. Now we will explain the steps involved in developing an effective workplace mentoring program. There are different types of mentoring, such as one-on-one mentoring; group mentoring in which one individual mentors several people atRead… Read more »
Homophily (That Means Love of Same) OK for Dating, But Not for Mentoring
I’m white, Jewish and male. If I behaved like sociologists expect, most of my mentors would be “like” me. But I don’t. The lion’s share of my mentors are black, female and of a different faith than I. Though I’ve never personally been the subject of research on homophily —the tendency of individuals to associateRead… Read more »
4 Tips for Building A Strong Mentor Relationship
You’ve found an informal mentor and set up your first meeting with him or her. These four strategies can help you effectively communicate and build a strong relationship with your mentor.
Mentoring in Government Agencies: 5 Ways to Empower Employees
Mentoring has long been an effective informal career development tactic in many government agencies. In a testimony to Congress, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Associate Director and Chief Human Capital Officer Nancy H. Kichak described the use of mentoring by federal agencies: “Mentoring is critical and can happen in many ways – through formalRead… Read more »
Resources for OPM Mentoring Hub
Looking for Mentoring Resources? GovLoop can help! GovLoop Mentors Program: Click here to apply for our government-wide program that gives your mentees access to mentors from dozens of agencies! This program is competitive, receiving hundreds of applications for just 50-70 finalist slots. Ask us how you can reserve spots in our Mentors Program for your agency! Email JuliaRead… Read more »
Transforming Talent Management: The Impact of Social and Digital Tech
Transforming talent management requires digitization and leveraging social and digital technologies to promote and enhance communication, collaboration, and engagement. This post presents some of the ways in which social and digital technologies are transforming talent management throughout the employee life cycle. All of the practices are currently possible based on available technology; however, none ofRead… Read more »