…ly we don’t know the exact numbers but I think this is a great sign that the programme was a success. Top 5 Areas to Mentor We asked our mentors to tell us which areas they mentored their mentee on and these were the results: 1.)   Communication and style was the most popular area this year. Some mentors looked at how their mentee communicates with his/her team and how inclusive their behaviour is. We had quite a few mentors sit in their exec’s t…

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Tags: business, Cisco, collaboration, communication, culture, employees, Inclusion and Diversity, Reverse Mentoring

…o create a plan to strengthen diversity awareness and inclusive practices.   It is the mentor’s responsibility to drive these one-on-one interactions for the remainder of their mutual agreement. Typically they will meet for 1 hour/month and the advice is to have a 6 months program, unless both parties wish to expand their agreement.     So how does the Reverse Mentoring programme drive Inclusion and Diversity? Ultimately the programme aims to…

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Tags: Ambassador Network, diversity, Early in Career Network, Employee Resource Group, Executive, Inclusion and Diversity, Individual Contributor, Reverse Mentoring, TelePresence

In Laura’s previous post, How we plan to use Cisco’s Reverse Mentoring programme to encourage Inclusion and Diversity, she talks about several aspects of the Reverse Mentoring programme, such as having an internal and external focus, the importance of being people -centric, and that the real benefit lies in the programme being win-win. For these very reasons, and many more, Cisco Belgium caught the eye of A Great Place to Work and won a Sp…

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Tags: Development, diversity, Female, I&D, inclusion, Recognition, Recruitment, Technology Industry, women, Women in Technology

…engage”. Of course, I’m speaking generally here. In the book “The Living Company” (1997), Arie DeGeus states that the average life span of a Fortune 500 company is about 40 years and 98% of American companies disappear within 11 years. This means that if a corporation wants to live longer, it will have no choice but to adapt and adopt. Change is constant so the question becomes “do you want to make change happen or do you want it to happen to you…

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Tags: adoption, social media

As the Cisco conference room became quiet for the start of day 2 of Social Media Week – San Francisco, attendees were typing rapidly. What may otherwise be construed as rude was actually a room full of attentive people eager to post in-the-moment thoughts about the days’ presentations. Here are 5 things I liked, and 5 things I loved: “Likes” 1. Rebecca Brown, Director of Social Media at Intel, shared her guidelines for social media:  disclose wh…

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