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Mentoring Employees to Improve Business Performance

While mentoring may seem at first to be a one-way street, benefiting the recipient of the mentoring, it invigorates everyone involved. Mentors are stimulated by the active need for their skills, while they can learn from the junior employee, who brings a fresh outlook and new ideas to what might feel like old hat for the senior staffer. Mentoring can boost communication, inject new ideas into old formulas, and promote a satisfying, more open work environment — all of which benefits your bottom line.


Management: How to Teach, Preach, Coach, and Counsel
Host Hattie Bryant of Small Business School interviews Albert Black of On Target Supplies and Logistics, an office-supply company in Dallas, Texas.