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Welcome to Walmart!!

The December issue of the Financial Post Magazine ("FPM") included a great article about the four women who comprise one half of the management team at Walmart Canada. This entity has 85,000 employees and 183 Walmart stores and 146 Supercenters which means by any measure, it's a major Canadian business enterprise.   The women are Shelley Broader CEO, Gale Blank, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Trudy Fahie, CEO and President of Walmart Canada Bank, and Emma Fox, Senior Vice-President of Marketing.  The FPM article tells a little of the story of their lives and how they ended up in their current roles and offers  some comments on leadership, mentorship and sponsorship and includes some great advice from each of them. It is well written ...

Establishing a Mentorship Program. Part 3

Critical Success Factors   I asked Nancy to describe the critical success factors for establishing a formal mentoring program. She said: “You have to have a commitment on the part of both parties to take the relationship seriously enough that you ensure that you both meet for your appointed lunches or coffees or whatever it is. We get feedback every year from mentors and mentees to see how the program worked for them and the overwhelming majority of matches work really well.  However, there have been a few mentorship relationships that have not worked well. In one case, one of the mentees clearly was only interested in job finding and once she realized her mentor could not help her do that she ...