Mentoring is an important part of grooming and developing people within the workplace. As we continue to develop our human talent to create innovation that encourages our nation to adapt we might also consider some of the benefits of workplace mentoring. Mentoring provides opportunities for executives to take promising candidates and develop them to higher states of performance. Mentoring moves beyond "feel good" practices and helps connect a new generation of leaders to the values and wisdom of senior scholars, civil leaders, military masters, and business gurus. The Value of Mentoring: I came across this really great article that has an overview of some mentoring statistics by Nicola Cronin entitled, ' The Importance of Mentoring in the Workplace '. It discusses how mentoring is an important part of many Fortune 500 companies and leads to increased retention, more opportunities, and value to organizations ( 55% feel that mentoring is profitable. Its not a big number
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