by Lisa Z. Fain | Mar 7, 2025 | Advice for Leaders, Facilitating Learning, Goal Setting Conversation, Growth and Development, Mentoring Communication, Mentoring Questions, Mentoring Relationships, Supporting Mentors and Mentees
Civility is disappearing. Public meetings turn into shouting matches. Social media feeds overflow with personal attacks. Customers berate service workers. Even in workplaces, people talk past each other instead of to each other. And it’s not just about rudeness. It’s...
by Lisa Z. Fain | May 30, 2024 | Advice for Leaders, Facilitating Learning, Goal Setting Conversation, Growth and Development, Making Mentoring Work For You, Mentoring Communication, Mentoring Questions, Mentoring Relationships, Supporting Mentors and Mentees
The best mentor-mentee relationships thrive on curiosity and powerful questions. Mentors should resist the urge to “fix” problems and avoid prescribing specific actions. Mentees should focus less on being who they think their mentor wants and more on...
by Center for Mentoring Excellence | Feb 9, 2023
PODCAST Mentoring As Part of Your Diversity & Inclusion Strategy (What’s the Difference? | March 2020) What you’ll learn in this episode: Lisa shares how she found her passion for diversity and inclusion work when she brought her mother Lois to her...
by Center for Mentoring Excellence | Dec 14, 2022
PODCAST Cultural Competency: Enhancing Organizational Ownership of Diversity and Inclusion David Worley: Groler Podcast | February 2019 Diversity, equity, and inclusion are important initiatives in organizations today. In this episode, we explore the concept of...
by Lisa Z. Fain | Jul 10, 2020 | Mentoring Communication, Mentoring Questions, Mentoring Relationships, Mentoring Training
It has been 20 years since Robert Putnam wrote Bowling Alone, the groundbreaking book that described the phenomenon of disconnectedness that Putnam believes indicated the collapse of community in America. Since then, all signs point to an increase in...
