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Want to Become a Mentor? Follow These 5 Steps

Success

Most likely, these individuals consist of family members, teachers, a work supervisor and friends who served as mentors. A mentor is someone who offers support , gives advice and helps guide others through a personal or professional journey. Eventually, you may become one yourself and carry on the meaningful legacy of mentoring.

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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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How to Establish Professional Development Goals to Help Build Your Dream Career

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Formal education helps you to get a good job, but building your dream career requires commitment to ongoing learning and personal improvement. Career growth requires a solid strategic plan suited uniquely to you—that is where setting meaningful professional development goals, like the examples included below, can assist you most.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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On a sunny March day in his hometown of Chicago, Chance the Rapper makes his way to The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center for our interview and his SUCCESS photo shoot. He says an after-school program at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center gave him the education he needed. Photos by Nick Onken.

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This Company Implemented A Hyper-Flexible Work Model (And It’s Actually Working)

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The Institute addresses challenges of this model with in-office days for collaboration, various social and educational activities, and comprehensive onboarding programs. Moreover, “our six affinity groups host a growing number of social, educational and cultural events that provide opportunities for learning and connection.

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10 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get Things Done

Success

Experience has shown that when people go after a big goal at once, they invariably fail. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. Proactive goal achievement means taking every project and cutting it up into bite-sized pieces. Using this method, the goal becomes manageable.

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5 Habits Guaranteed to Boost Your EA Career in 2021

Executive Leadership Support Blog

You can enhance your professional development through ELS to build a long and lasting career where you are able to accomplish your goals, whether that includes gaining more responsibility or stepping into official leadership yourself. Set SMART Work Goals. SMART goals are Smart, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Time-Based.

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