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January Is National Mentoring Month…

For employment specialists and other workforce professionals involved in business development, January may require extra creativity to get companies’ attention. One way to do this may be to learn about how they mentor employees, and to draw their attention to some tools available through EARN, the Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion. EARN points out benefits of mentoring to both employer and employee, and includes a Workplace Mentoring Playbook that defines 17 different mentoring models and how they work, including mentor and mentee led mentorships as well as virtual and hybrid models