Chapter 8 Step 5: Create your success story

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Change before you have to. (Jack Welch in Belasen et al. 2016, 292)

Learning is not compulsory… Neither is survival. (Edwards Deming in Voehl 1995, 125)

Introduction

The final step to creating an effective mentoring program is to share the successes and make incremental improvements. Your mentoring program is more likely to thrive and be sustainable if others know of its success. Sharing about the program’s success will help you to recruit future participants, rally others to be an ambassador for your program, and secure future funding for the program.

You worked hard to collect the right data (see Chapter 7). Now you can put that data to work for you to decide which ...

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