Mentoring Resources & Articles

The latest on mentoring guidelines, news and mentoring software updates from PushFar.

7 Fun Mentoring Activities You Need to Try During Your Next Meeting

 Mentoring Meetings
Mentoring is more than an informal conversation every time you meet, it's about creating a trustful connection that blossoms over time. That's why having a distinguished relationship with your mentee is a must if you want them to truly succeed. Mentoring is beneficial for mentors and mentees, with both learning and developing together on a journey. At the beginning of a relationship, including mentoring, we frequently struggle with what to say and how to spend our time together. This is particularly relatable to learning and development relationships, where it's vital to keep an engaging environment going.
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5 Traits of Highly Effective Coaches: What Makes Them Successful?

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In this article, we will explore the five traits of highly effective coaches and what makes them successful.
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How to Structure a Productive Mentoring Meeting in a Structured Mentoring Program

 Mentoring Meeting
Within any mentoring relationship, the primary purpose is to help the mentee progress and grow, both personally and professionally. A mentoring meeting or session can be described as a mentor and mentee coming collectively to share expertise, knowledge and solve problems.
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PushFar provides a wealth of mentoring, coaching and learning resources, alongside our software, to help both participants and program managers to make the most of mentoring and coaching programs. On our mentoring platform we also include training videos and regularly host mentoring training webinars.
Guidelines for Mentees

Mentee Guidelines

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Guidelines for Mentors

Mentor Guidelines

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The ultimate guide to mentoring

The Ultimate Guide

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The benefits of mentoring

Benefits of Mentoring

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Diversity and Inclusion

Diversity and inclusion

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Most Recent Articles

The 4 Most Common Mistakes People Make with Career Progression

 Career Progression Professional
Career progression simply put is the path you take to progress within your career journey, whether you want to progress within your current role or start fresh in a completely new industry, the process can often be challenging to navigate.
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Reverse Mentoring and the Importance of Gen Z Engagement with Senior Leaders

 Gen Z Reverse Mentoring
COVID-19 highlighted to many large corporates, the importance of organisational planning and consumer adaption. The swift move online from working-from-home to bolstering e-commerce capabilities for firms showed the importance and need for companies
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Mirroring Techniques in Mentoring: Role Models and The Role They Play

 Mirroring in Mentoring
People have always imitated each other. Be they anonymous or famous individuals. Imitation, after all, is said to be the biggest form of flattery. Yes, mimicry plays an important part in our development. Being aware and wary of it is important
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LGBT+ Mentoring – Why Diversity Mentoring Matters and Its Impact

 LGBT+ Mentoring
Mentoring is often cited as an extremely effective way to support diversity and inclusion initiatives and agendas within organisations, and with good reason. Mentoring is the act of one individual helping another to develop, progress and grow in their career
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Introducing PushFar Video Calling

 PushFar Video Calling - Mentoring Platform
Since PushFar’s platform was first developed and launched, we have continually strived to push our technology further (no ‘PushFar’ pun intended) and evolve to help facilitate more meaningful mentoring connections, engagements and goal-supporting functionality
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10 Tips for People Managers To Attract Good People into your Organisation

 Hiring Talent - Job Interview
In over 20 years working in the areas of people development and talent management, I have noticed several constant and reliable themes about the important role of managers which run true and consistent across industries, functions, sectors, geographies, culture, and fashionable trends
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4 Ways to be More Effective at Work

 Productive People - Computer
Finding ways to be more productive and efficient at work is a skill that is highly desired by professionals all over the world. At times, particularly with the rise in remote working, it’s easy to feel that the number of tasks and the complexity of them is increasing exponentially each day
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Mentoring vs Coaching: The Key Differences and Benefits

 Coaching versus Mentoring - The Differences
In March 2021, PushFar and our partners at Sheridan Resolutions jointly hosted a webinar entitled ‘Mentoring vs Coaching: What, Why & When’, aimed at looking at the key differences between mentoring and coaching, when to use both learning practices and what the key benefits are
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6 Habits of Highly Effective and Productive People

 Habits of Effective People
Being productive, or “effective” consists of, primarily, achieving planned results and developing tasks in a competent and productive way. This sounds simple enough and in some regards it is. It is easy to conclude that this skill is desired by most organisations
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Improve Diversity and Inclusion with Mentoring

 Diversity and Inclusion Mentoring
Mentoring is often considered as a vital and integral part to the success of diversity and inclusion employee resource groups, initiatives and focuses. In some respects, it’s obvious that it would be. By providing employees with mentors who they can relate to
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