This is what we talked about on The Invisible Mentor Blog this week: In the Midnight Rain by Barbara Samuel & Ruth Wind,Mentorship and Millennials: Is the Tide Changing? and 4 Web Resources to Help You. Adventures in Learning When most professionals think about mentorship, they picture the traditional one-to-one relationship where a more senior person guides and advises a more junior one. However, there are many mentorship models and the smart professional can also include invisible mentoring and self-mentoring into the mix. Mentorship and Millennials: Is The Tide Changing? Here are four web resources to help you save … [Read more...]
Book Review: How the Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie Can Help You Improve Your Problem Solving Skills
A well-written murder mystery is the perfect way to learn problem solving skills and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie delivers. First published in 1926, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a part of the Hercule Poirot mystery series. I love murder mysteries, thrillers and dramas and am pretty good at foreshadowing, but I didn’t see the end of this story coming. After I finished reading the book, I realized that the end made perfect sense and the clues were right there, but I didn’t a sk enough questions and I let my feelings get in the way of good judgement. The private detective Hercule Poirot’s personality drove me … [Read more...]