The Growing Power of Mentoring.
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THE GROWING POWER OF MENTORING Suddenly, the word mentoring is on everyone's lips. In the United States, organisations in all sectors are breathing new life into a concept that had been seen as a management fad of the 80s. In the UK, the Government has called a working party to co-ordinate mentoring in a wide variety of community schemes, including a new venture to provide thousands of schoolchildren with personal mentors. In Eire, thousands of difficult to employ young people are being coaxed into the working environment through an ambitious mentoring scheme. In Scandinavia and Western Europe, companies are experimenting with mentoring for the benefit of a wide variety of employees, from new recruits to people approaching retirement. At the World Bank in Washington, mentoring is addressing the intercultural tensions inherent in an organisation of highly talented, culturally diverse people. Wherever you look around the world, mentoring is becoming part of the solution...

