Is Mentorship Dead?
In this episode, ThinkLab interviews Dost Bardouille, Director of Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility of Swinerton; and Nina Johnson, Senior Commercial Insights Manager at Armstrong Craven. They discuss the pitfalls of traditional mentorship and explore three additional solutions for career development and upskilling your talent in a modern era. After listening, you will be able to: Identify a key shift impacting career development today Compare three new methods used for engagement Assess the D.E.I. benefits of champions Summarize the 7 considerations needed in designing a shadow board. In part one, we sit down with Dost Bardouille of Swinerton to evaluate the pitfalls of traditional career development and compare two new methods of connection: sponsorship and champions. And in part two, we sit down with Nina Johnson of Armstrong Craven to identify how implementing a shadow board, a tactic that major fashion house Gucci used, can provide employees with high level engagement and in turn prove long-term success for a company's growth. EPISODE EXTRA: Want CEU credit for listening? Take the quiz and earn your certificate of completion. How it works: Step 1: Listen to the episode. Step 2: Visit this link to take a short, 5-question quiz. *Scoring an 80% or above on the quiz will earn you 0.5 CEU Step 3: Upon passing the quiz, receive your certificate of completion from CEU provider Teknion. Accredited for: IDCEC| 0.5 CEU Connect with our expert guests on LinkedIn: Nina Johnson Dost Bardouille Tune in to our trailer for more, and subscribe so you don’t miss our upcoming episodes. Thank you to our sponsors Mannington Commercial, THEMART and NeoCon.