97 Articles match "generation","mentoring"

• The Best from Informal Learning Flow

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• Are You Ready to Manage Five Generations of Workers?
  
  This translates into a social phenomenon not yet witnessed: five generations are about to be working side by side. Due to their smaller size, Gen X will never have the majority spot in the workplace — and so in essence, we will have skipped an entire generation by 2015.) When you consider the changes in the amount of knowledge available at our fingertips, the advent of social technologies, and the expansion of the global economy over those two generations, Does retirement look a little further off now than it did just a few years ago? If you are over 62, odds are you're
  HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, October 16, 2009
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• The Secret of Great Mentors
  
  After decades of time and millions of dollars spent on leadership development and mentoring programs, why are we still facing a leadership crisis at many levels of the business world? By now, most business leaders have learned that our job is to expand and develop our own capacity , while simultaneously preparing the next generation of leaders to take the reins. Mentor someone . Develop talent, we've been taught. Be helpful.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, April 20, 2009
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• Let Gen Y Teach You Tech
  
  Just look at a single photo of a rally on www.youtube.com/citzentube to see hundreds of hands raised in the air and holding a cell-phone camera to get a sense of how tech-savvy this generation is," says Steve Grove, head of news and politics for YouTube (now owned by Google). "Now Until recently, it was a conversation mostly confined to the raised-on-the-Net younger generation and a few older outliers. This post was co-authored by Laura Sherbin and Karen Sumberg. You You say you want a revolution?
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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• Observations from a Student Leadership Summit
  
  The members of the crucible generation, as Warren Bennis calls them , really do have a more collaborative and less competitive orientation then we ever did. The older generation has a significant contribution to make--in mentoring. Jim Collins , the dinner speaker on the final day of the summit, talked about how each of us needs a personal board of directors. That is particularly true for the crucible generation, Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Student Leadership Summit , the inaugural event of the Frances Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement , at the University of Pittsburgh.
  HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, August 17, 2009
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• Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind
  
  Collaborative learning environments and strategies such as virtual classrooms, discussion forums, mentoring and coaching need to be enabled and mandated as part of the learning experience. I ran across an article by Bob Mosher in CLO entitled: Moving from One to Many that discusses the disconnect of what LMS products are focusing on "competency mapping and effective resource management" vs. what Bob sees as the overall industry trend - "industry shifting its overall training focus away from skills acquisition to an overall strategy of project-based and outcome-driven learning."
  eLearning Technology - Thursday, July 6, 2006
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• You Can't Launch the Next Generation of Startups Without Women
  
  For this reason, certain elements of the current startup support system, like accelerators , or events like Startup Weekend , are not necessarily realistic or appropriate options for women founders in need of mentoring and funding. So perhaps women could benefit from mentoring that would teach them to conceptualize and present their concepts in technology terms and money terms. A serious geek I know asked me how many people with gray hair were at Internet conference I had just attended. I
  ReadWriteWeb - Saturday, February 20, 2010
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• Generation Integration
  
  Roberta Matuson, president of Human Resources Solutions, recently gave a speech to the Boston CEO Club that highlighted five things companies can do to engage employees across the generations . Encourage collaboration-Think mentor programs and reverse mentor programs. It important to note that all talk about the generations is not about the conflicts between them. (GW) Here they are: Provide opportunities to do interesting work.
  Workplace Learning Today - Thursday, January 8, 2009
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• The Eggs Teaching the Chickens: Reverse Mentoring
  
  Mentoring apprentices and protégés has been a part of business as long as we’ve had crafts and professions. Sometimes what managers really need is a mentor from a younger generation to inform and inspire.’ As a ‘young’ professional reading this from the much-loved ‘silence car’ on the train from Zurich early this morning, I smile. It comes from a wonderful book – The Ten Faces of Innovation: Strategies for Heightening Creativity – by Tom Kelly with ‘The old adage “Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” may be true, but what do you do when your “acorn” days are far behind you?
  You Learn Something New Every Day - Thursday, September 13, 2007
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• Alternatives to the CKO
  
  There is a also a tendency for such groups to develop specialist language and become alienated from the wider workforce. Paradoxically, there is a need for senior management commitment to knowledge management and this often leads to the appointment of a CKO. Knowledge management needs to be seen as a distributed function, the responsibility of the whole workforce. Central support is needed, but it needs to be focused on supporting rather than directing the network. Overall knowledge management requires top down direction of broad goals, but then bottom up generation
  Cognitive Edge - Friday, September 18, 2009
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• Seven e-Learning and Teaching Resources
  
  The tool consists of a 220 article content library (often cited from members of the Nature Publishing group , more than 200 virtual classrooms set up by teachers across the globe, and an mentor network of experts poised to answer student questions. One of the great features of this site is that the site's report generator allows teachers to track users' progress. While the down economy continues to hurt funding to our schools, more and more teachers are looking to web-based services to help educate their students. Whether its through open resource projects like CK-12 , virtual
  ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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