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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 ...

Pattie Dunn – An Obituary

Pattie Dunn died on December 4, at her home in California. I did not know her. However, when she died her death was covered in many papers and I found her obituary fascinating reading. It tells the story of a woman who had many of the qualities we all aspire to have, achieved much in a very short life, faced challenges greater in number and severity than many of us will ever know and dealt with each of them in ways which demonstrate character and class and so much more.  Her board room struggles as the Non-Executive Chairman of Hewlett-Packard are instructive for any one of us who is sitting on a board or aspires to do so.  And without ...