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Mission
Our purpose is to
create learning partnerships that help adults and youth enhance their lives and
communities.
Mentoring
For more than two decades, businesses and organizations have been utilizing
mentoring programs with their employees. In his article, "Mentoring as
Partnership," Chip R. Bell stated that "a mentor is simply someone who helps
someone else learn something that he or she would have learned less well, more
slowly, or not at all if left alone." According to Janet Fox in "News and
Views," formal mentoring has been found to reduce high turnover in early career
stages; prepare talented people to replace those retiring, moving, or being
promoted; and to assist people trapped in the wrong job.
By utilizing the Extension mentoring program, new employees will grow as professionals
and rapidly become an integral part of the NDSU
Extension Service.
"Caring about others works because it is a paradigm focused on people, not things; it is focused on relationships, not schedules; it is focused on effectiveness, not efficiency; it is focused on personal leadership, not resource management." --Steven R. Covey
For more
information, click the links below:
County Mentoring Program Information
Area Specialist Mentoring Program Information
State Specialist Mentoring Program Information
Developed
by Meghan J. Phillippi, NDSU
Master's Student in Agricultural Education.
Bell, C. R. (2000). Mentoring as partnership. Training & Development, 54 (2), 52-57.
Fox, J. (2001). The role of mentoring in career development. News & Views, 54(1), 4-5. April 2006,
Revisions made October 2006 and January 2009 by Deb Gebeke |
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