“Knowledge workers in today's workforce are individuals who are valued for their ability to act and communicate with knowledge within a specific subject area.”[i]  Most of you reading this entry probably consider yourselves to be knowledge workers.  You probably also work with a bunch of other knowledge workers.  There is a good chance that the organization you work for employs...

Who is in the best position to determine what an individual needs to learn?  I’ll give you a moment to think about it…………….  The correct answer is……………. the individual him or herself.  It’s not the organization or some other type of external entity.  The individual may lean on advice and feedback ...

If your mentoring program does not have an enterprise component to it, you’re doing it wrong.  To be fair, I should probably take a little time to explain what I mean.  It does not necessarily mean that the things that you are doing with mentoring are wrong, only that they are wrong in the larger context of what mentoring could potentially be because a tremendous opportunity is goi...

1.   Pilot the solution within the HR Function – All too often, when piloting a solution with HR, you end up encountering two types of participants (I realize this is a generalization, but it is fairly accurate): the true believers and the skeptics.  True believers are those who are already sold on the value of the solution.  You need to ensure that they are included...

Here at the Creek, a good amount of recent conversation within the Business Development department has been focused on what makes a good prospect.  In other words, who are the buyers of enterprise mentoring systems?   At the end of the day, here are the criteria: they are large organizations (multiple thousands of knowledge workers) that have an ultimate enterprise-level vision for ...

Let’s begin with some context: in this case, we are referring to the “camel humps” that are the relative sizes of the Baby Boomer and Millennial generations when compared to Generation X that falls between them.  In other words, Generation X is roughly half the size of each of the Baby Boomer and Millennial generations.  Now that we’re clear on that, what is this ...