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Mentoring and

Coaching Programs

If he didn’t push you, he didn’t like you (referring to his
mentor, Charles Tandy).
—Bernard Appel
President, Radio Shack
When the best leader’s work is done, the people say, “We
did it ourselves.”
—Lao-Tzu, philosopher and
founder of Taoism, Tao Te Ching

any organizations start mentoring, coaching, and/or buddy
Mprograms as an important tool to combat excessive or
debilitating retention rates among top employees. If you man-
age top performers, mentoring and coaching are not optional.
Whether or not your organization has such a formal mentoring
or coaching program, your key employees will expect that you
provide them with mentoring and coaching when appropriate.

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