Flash Mentoring ezine
Moxie at Work
The Care and Feeding of Employees
When 75% of the people are chanting "I-hate-my-job", we have to acknowledge that there are two common denominators: employees and employers. Let’s look at the latter and see how we can impact the former.
Missing the Passion in Your Work? Create Moxie!
76% of all Americans are not happy in their jobs. Does it lack passion or does it just lack moxie? Margo similarly felt a lack of passion in her marketing job . Then one day something changed.
8 Ways to Feed a Need and Stifle a Fear to Innovate from the Middle
When you look to the middle of your organization for ideas, everyone prospers. You get fresh ideas and
perspectives, and the people in the middle – your managers – are influenced to contribute those ideas.
Rousing the Remarkable: 9 Ways to Influence Extraordinary Actions (Even in Your Absence)
How can we fuel initiative in all of our people?
9 Ways to Drive Initiative and Rouse the Remarkable
Why Middle Managers Are Ready to Demote Themselves (and what you can do about it)
Isn’t it vital that we set managers up for success instead of failure, that we stop ignoring them, and that we
quench their thirst to contribute and make a difference? 5 ways to help middle leaders win
From Idle to Innovative: 8 Ways to Ignite Managers in the Middle
We empower the need to matter when we recognize that our efforts will make a difference. And the fastest route to making a difference is to innovate.
How Mentoring Can Save Even the Most Downtrodden Managers
Mentoring is ripe with opportunity. When we need our people in middle management to become middle leaders, we need to mentor them forward, backwards, and upside down.
Would You Want to Work for You? (and 7 Things You Can do to Change a “No” Answer)
Think of your people as your strategic advantage. They can partner with you in success. They can innovate for you. They can be your spokespeople to others in the company and to customers in the community.
7 Ideas for Generating Buy‐In by Leveraging Human Influences
Knowing that we are all influenced by behavioral phenomena, we cannot ignore their impact. Instead we must leverage these influences, while taking some lessons from Whole Foods and Pret a Manger.
Mentoring
Forget Succession Planning! Focus on Legacy.
Succession planning entails assessing current bench strength and developing employees’ competencies in anticipation of future transitions. In other worlds, people are groomed today to be ready to take on their peers’ positions tomorrow.
Structured Mentoring Program: Preparing People to Effectively Tap the Power of Mentoring
An organization that creates a structured Mentoring Program is committed to the success of its people. And when people engage in that program, they are committing to their own success.
Making Mentoring Matter for You
A mentor may offer a passing bit of advice based on their own change or they may hold your hand through your change. Both are effective, just with different levels of commitment.
7 Ways to Put Mentoring to Work at Your Organization
Mentoring is a powerful tool because its foundational purpose is to help people triumph. There are seven ways that any organization can employ mentoring to drive its own goals while contributing to its people.
Catapult the Employees in Your Company with Mentors
Give an employee a mentor, guide them for a day; teach them how to find one and guide them for a career. Young professionals are always given the advice, “If you want to succeed, you need a mentor.”
5 Ways to Mess up Mentoring
Whether you are creating a mentoring program, launching a mentoring initiative, or working on a mentoring culture, mentoring requires three components to be successful: strategy, scalability, and sustainability.
9 Best Practices for Creating Powerful Mentoring Programs
Implementing a corporate mentoring program can be your wildly successful legacy or your administrative nightmare. The difference lies in creating a powerful, employee-inspired, effective program.
Moxie in Life
Learn the Art of Bouncing
In spite of past failures and criticisms, Hilary Clinton is aspiring to be the first woman President. After beating the cancer, Lance Armstrong raced in the Tour de France. That’s moxie. What is Moxie and how can you bounce back to be the next Hilary or Lance?
The Freedom of the "Do Over!"
What’s the secret to getting unstuck and finally making the first move on your new business, career change, product or service launch, closing of a sale, move to a new city? The freedom of a “Do Over!
8 Ways to Make 2008 Your Benchmark Year
Discover 8 ways to bolster your moxie, to make this year your most memorable ever.
Turn up the Volume of Your Life - Create Your Own Moxie!
Have you ever had a friend quit their job to start a business, change careers or sail around> the world and wonder how they got the guts to do that? What do they have that you need?
How to Find the Moxie In You!
Why is it that so many of us know so little about life or our ability to make it on our own or the importance of having economic power?
Women in Corporations
Why Women Are Good for Corporations
Fortune 500 companies with the highest representation of women in senior positions yield 35% higher return on equity and 34% higher total return to shareholders.
A Look at the Impact on Your Economic Power
Summer 2005 was a summer that saw many important changes in the United States and abroad that affect women’s economic power. What do these mean for women’s economic power?
Purchasing Power vs. Economic Power
Women need to understand that buying the groceries or balancing the household checkbook does not equal the power in investing their money for future gain.
Professional Development
Achieving Work/Life Balance
For some, being successful means having a challenging and rewarding career. For others it means having a family and raising children. Many women want to do both, and success means merging of the two.
10 Tips to Negotiate Anything
Being a good negotiator is a great skill both in business and at home. Women especially need to be good negotiators in order to create their own economic power.
Catapult Your Career or Business – Hire a Professional Mentor!
Mentors do not just magically appear.. What if instead people hired a professional mentor, a Maven, to guide them in any area of their career, business or life?