Manage Up and Across with Your Mentor

HBR IdeaCast

Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 31 January 2013

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Jeanne Meister, partner at Future Workplace and contributor to the "HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across."

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
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0:08.4	Young Professional's Guide to Building a Meaningful Career on your own terms.
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0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBRIDIA Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.2	I'm Susan Francis and I'm on the phone today with Gene Meister,
0:36.3	a partner at Future Workplace, which helps organizations redefine
0:40.0	their corporate learning and talent management strategies.
0:43.2	She is the co-author of the 2020 workplace, how innovative companies attract, develop,
0:48.2	and keep tomorrow's employees today.
0:50.4	Gene, thanks so much for talking with us. Thank you for inviting me, Susan.
0:54.0	It's a pleasure to be here.
0:56.0	So tell us, what's the greatest benefit a mentor can offer to someone looking to manage
1:01.0	up and across their organization?
1:04.1	I think one of the greatest benefits is increasing that employees engagement.
1:10.8	Future Workplace just finished a very large study called the Second Annual
1:16.3	Generations at Work Study where we interviewed online a sample of roughly 1,100 working professionals across the generations.
1:29.0	And what we found was that employee engagement, not surprised, is at an all-time low the older you
1:37.3	get in an organization so the boomers ages between 46 and 64, are the ones with the highest levels of disengagement.
1:48.6	And these are the individuals that are in many cases leaders in organizations and they're feeling a lot of
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