With back-to-back conferences in Albuquerque and Sydney, the last two weeks have been a whirlwind! That’s why today’s article is Slow Down – Take a Mentoring Moment!
There were over 300 session to choose from over 4 days at the Mentoring Institute 7th Annual Conference. As well as two plenary sessions each day (I presented one) there were 14 concurrent sessions each hour!
Here’s my pre-conference planning to work out which session to go to. The “At a Glance” timetable ran to 3 double-sided pages!
You can bet I came back with heaps more knowledge. The Conference Proceedings is over 600 pages, as each presenter supplied a paper for peer-review and inclusion. Fortunately, it was supplied to each delegate on a disk. I’m yet to work my way through it all. I also enjoyed the poster session and I’ve put together some photos of them in an album on the Mentoring Works Facebook page.
A big thank you to Nora Dominguez, Yvonne Gandert and Emily Ardella Wright, and all at the Mentoring Institute, University of New Mexico who looked after me during my brief visit.
Lucky I got some sleep on the plane back to Sydney because after arriving early Sunday, I spent Monday and Tuesday at the Learning@Work and HR Tech conference exhibition.
I got to meet and chat with some wonderful people and joined the buzz on social media to emphasize the importance of mentoring in:
The 20% in the 70:20:10 model (McCall, Eichinger & Lombardo) – only 10% of learning comes from formal training and education, 20% from coaching and mentoring and 70% is a result of informal, workplace learning.
Increasing the ROI on training by reducing the 80% of learning lost without on-the-job coaching and mentoring.
Leadership development – 75% of senior managers say that mentoring was significant in their development.
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