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		<title>Good Mentors are Precious Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 14:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Barney’s (1991) classic article, a company’s competitive advantage comes from how it uses its distinctive resources. To be be valuable to a company, a resource needs to be valuable, rare, inimitable, and not easily substituted. These precious resources may take different forms. A consumer products company invests in building and maintaining its brand image [...]]]></description>
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		<title>June Seminar : Getting the Most from Leadership Coaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working with an executive coach is a powerful way to help leaders be more effective. A coach can help accelerate the development of a leader who shows great potential, nor help turn around a leader who has been derailed. This seminar will help leaders and HR professionals select the right coach, prepare leaders for coaching, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on Mentoring as Baby Boomers Near Retirement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rik Nemanick, Ph.D. We are facing a new reality as the economy improves: acceleration in the retirement of the baby boom generation. The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants published a study in 2011 that found that the average baby boomer was postponing retirement for four to six years. Starting this year, it is estimated that 10,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accelerated Mentoring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 21:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mentoring is one of the most powerful ways to advance your career. Most successful people can point to a mentor who helped them at a critical point in their careers. But, getting started with a mentor can be a slow process. Join Rik Nemanick for this webinar on Accelerated Mentoring that will help you maximize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making The Role of IT in Your Organization More Strategic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 10:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rik Nemanick, Ph.D. I was recently having lunch with a friend who works for XIOLINK who was telling me about how companies like hers (that provides managed hosting, cloud computing solutions, etc.) were enabling their customers to transform the role of internal IT in their companies. By moving a lot of their data and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting List Sign Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online Form &#8211; Leadership Effect &#8211; Waiting list forBest Practices for Mentoring Programs]]></description>
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		<title>The Mentor’s Way Rule #2: Stay Out of the Driver’s Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nemanick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old aphorism, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink,” is the foundation of the second rule of mentoring. Many a mentor has fallen into the subtle trap of driving the mentoring process, only to reach a point of disappointment and frustration when the protégé’s energy and enthusiasm begins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using a Coach to Bring Out Your Leadership Best</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Bob Grace, Ph.D., and Rik Nemanick, Ph.D. Look at your calendar. When during the last few months did you take time to think about the following: What can I do to better motivate my team? How can I challenge them to keep them at their peak? How can I recognize and develop my top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Developing Talent Through Mundane Assignments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Harvard Business Review blog post offered the idea of developing your talent by having them work on your most boring processes. The thinking behind this proposition is that these mundane processes never get much scrutiny because they are boring, and that there are significant efficiencies to be gained by improving them. While the ideas are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mentoring Shrinks the Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:16:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>nemanick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The St. Louis Post-Dispatch had a nice article on mentoring in a recent issue (click here to read it). In it, I&#8217;m quoted at saying that mentoring &#8220;shrinks the big organizations.&#8221; This quote means that a mentoring program has the power to cross boundaries within organizations, creating connections across silos and building the organization&#8217;s social [...]]]></description>
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