Mentoring Resources & Articles

The latest on mentoring guidelines, news and mentoring software updates from PushFar.

5 Ways to Tackle Demotivation and Re-Motivate Yourself

 Tackle Staff Demotivation
Feeling demotivated is horrible. As a start-up entrepreneur, it is something I often face. Here are my five top tips to help you get motivated again. These should work regardless of your situation – whether a student, a working professional, someone on the job-hunt, an entrepreneur or even if you are finding motivation difficult in your personal life! Follow these five steps to re-booting your motivation levels
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7 Fun Mentoring Activities You Need to Try During Your Next Meeting

 Mentoring Meetings
Mentoring is more than an informal conversation every time you meet, it's about creating a trustful connection that blossoms over time. That's why having a distinguished relationship with your mentee is a must if you want them to truly succeed. Mentoring is beneficial for mentors and mentees, with both learning and developing together on a journey. At the beginning of a relationship, including mentoring, we frequently struggle with what to say and how to spend our time together. This is particularly relatable to learning and development relationships, where it's vital to keep an engaging environment going.
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How Prioritising Employee Welfare Improves Your Business

 Team Wellbeing Meeting
In this unique time where health has been a center of conversations in every industry, business leaders are prompted to seriously look into the welfare of their employees who serve as the main drivers of success. The need to nurture good health has been amplified, challenging everyone to explore ways on how to manage anxiety, deal with stress, and still sleep adequately alongside having proper meals.
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The Key Principles of Building High-Performance Teams

 A High-Performance Team
Teams. Whether a sports team, working team or group of entrepreneurs founding their next enterprise; all teams work in different ways. Every team has their own dynamic and, primarily, these dynamics are based on the inherent objectives and motivations, combined with aspects internal to a group and their environment
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8 Top Tips to Preparing for your Next Job Interview and the ‘Weakness’ Questions

 A Virtual Video Call Job Interview
Anyone looking for a job knows how difficult it can be to expose strengths and weaknesses to a recruiter or employer. Leadership skills, ease of communication, perfectionism and anxiety all tend to appear frequently in responses, but they are by no means the key to opening a door in the increasingly disputed and competitive jobs market.
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Mentoring Software: The Ultimate Guide - What, Why & How it Works

 PushFar's Mentoring Software
Mentoring. It has grown significantly in the last few years as a popular tool for individuals and organisations to develop and progress effectively, both professionally and personally. But what is it, what does mentoring software do and how does it all work?
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Discovering Your Talents – How and Why It’s Important

 A Clean Desk with Drawing Pencils
At some point in life it is highly likely that you’ll be asked by someone (you might even be the one asking yourself), what you’re good at. This is a relatively common question, but for some, it can cause distress.
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The Benefits of Motivational Talks for Organisations

 A Motivational Talk
Motivational talks can be incredibly powerful and resonate extremely well with individuals. That is probably a given. Yet, the art of communication in public speaking, as a tool for organisations to resolve emotional and organisational conflict is one
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How to Set Achievable Goals and Objectives

 Goal Setting
Goal setting is an important process in life. It affects and impacts everything; from thinking about your ideal future and motivating yourself, to turning your vision of the future into reality. The goal-setting process can help you to get to where you want to go.
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Logical Reasoning, Professional Performance and How You Can Improve It

 The Rubik's Cube for Logical Reasoning
Ahh, logic. Seems logical, right? Okay, we might have already lost you. Bear with us, this article contains a bit of history, some context, and a few ways in which you can improve your professional performance, with the power of logical reasoning
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Mentoring for Organisational Success: 4 Top Tips to Setting up Your Scheme

 Mentoring in an Organisation
Mentoring is one of the single most effective ways to improve employee retention, engagement, cross-organisational knowledge sharing and assist with inclusion and diversity objectives too. So, simply put, mentoring is incredible! To find out more about what mentoring is and how you can get involved, check out our previous article
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What is mentoring and why should you get involved?

 Two People Mentoring
Mentoring has been around for a long time. The word Mentor derives from Greek Mythology. Ulysses, before setting out on his epic voyage, entrusted his son Telemachus to the care and direction of his old and trusted friend, Mentor. In modern development terms, mentoring is a 1-2-1 two-way development relationship
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The Importance of Reading – 5 Key Benefits and 5 Recommended Books

 A woman reading a book on her bed
Books, ebooks, newspapers or magazines, no matter which ones you decide to immerse yourself in, the simple act of reading is one of the most effective and accessible opportunities for both personal and professional development. It is through reading that one can disconnect from the real world, breaks the boundaries of the imagination, and discovers new universes, without having to go anywhere
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