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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Most CEOs are lucky enough to have a mentor or two in their past.

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Africa Mentoring Project

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Via Joitske , Nancy White , and Britt Bravo , I read about The African Mentoring Project , run by Ore Somolu from Nigeria and who I know from the Global s projects. I saw this while I was busy mentoring for the Young Caucasus Women Blogging Project. So, I immediately emailed Ore to volunteer as a mentor.

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Opportunity to Mentor Nigerian Women - The Networking for Success Project

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If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you might want to consider participating in this online mentoring program for women in Nigeria. Over the past three years, I have a couple of opportunities to be a virtual technology mentor to other women in remote parts of the world. This can be a really rewarding experience.

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E-Mediat: A Simple Design Process for an Online Learning Community Site

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This second post shares some insights from the planning sessions for E-Mediat project, a networked approach to capacity building for NGOs in Social Media in the Middle East. (For One of the personal highlights of this project was finally meeting Chris Blow in face-to-face. Watching Chris model visual facilitation was inspiring.

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Flat, Tall, or In Between—Is It Time to Evaluate Your Organizational Structure?

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Upper-level managers don’t have the bandwidth to vet or supervise new projects. Collaboration among business units is facilitated and encouraged. Initiatives are undermined by silos, turf wars, and poor collaboration. The executive team is stretched too thin. New hires don’t engage. Teams are engaged and proud of their work.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

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I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Girls for a Change: Call for Mentors

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Girls for a Change , a nonprofit that pairs women with middle and high school girls to help them create social change in their communities, is looking for mentors in the Bay Area and Phoenix. They even got a grant to fund their project! girl social change mentor They have narrowed down the three points they will cover.