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This High School is Doing Whatever it Takes to Mentor First-Generation Students

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In Homer’s ancient story The Odyssey , the goddess Athena, disguised as old man Mentor, reveals to the hero’s son the right path to take. Skip forward several millennia and across the Atlantic to an urban high school preparing teens for life after graduation, and the image of mentor-as-lone-sage doesn’t quite paint the picture.

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Diplomas and Dilemmas: How 2023 Graduates Can Navigate Job Market Chaos

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2023 grads are entering a job market that is not so quick to employ new grads. This is a shift from the past two years where companies were fiercely competing to recruit interns and recent graduates. Although the U.S. Although the U.S. have now had to lay off thousands of employees in recent months.

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JPMorgan Demands Hybrid Workers Return Full-Time by March

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bank JPMorgan Chase on Friday asked its employees who are on hybrid work schedules to return to the office five days a week starting in March, an internal memo seen by Reuters showed, prompting hundreds of staff comments, including complaints. “Being together greatly enhances mentoring, learning, brainstorming and getting things done.”

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The Rise of Women Entrepreneurs: Growth, Innovation and Challenges

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from 2021 to 2023. Wells Fargo’s 2024 Impact of Women-Owned Businesses report indicates that the number of women-owned businesses increased at almost double the rate of their male counterparts between 2019 and 2023. between 2001 and 2005 to 10.4% The impact of female founders goes beyond statistics.

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Eliza VanCort Is Teaching Women How to Claim Space Shamelessly

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I surround myself with women who are just extraordinary… And I’ve also gotten very good at getting anti-mentors out of my life. Originally published in 2021, and republished in 2023 by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, A Woman’s Guide to Claiming Space: Stand Tall. She also delves into the tactics for chasing “anti-mentors” (i.e.,

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SUCCESS’ 2024 Women of Influence

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Female entrepreneurs , CEOs and community leaders who mentor and support young women provide invaluable guidance, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their ambitions. She is a 2023 CNN Hero, a 2022 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2019 JustLeadershipUSA Leading with Conviction Fellow Alumna.

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Embracing the “Hire Slow, Fire Fast” Mentality Can Help Leaders Build Strong Teams

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Errors come with the territory and can be excellent learning and development opportunities , as well as chances for managers to coach and mentor up-and-comers. Overcoming internal obstacles to hire slow, fire fast You may come up against some resistance to hire slow, fire fast at first. Some of that resistance may be personal.

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