Global Leadership Adventures Accepting Applications for Summer Volunteer Programs
Global Leadership Adventures Accepting Applications for Summer Volunteer Programs
San Diego, CA (PRWEB) March 23, 2011
Global Leadership Adventures has the opportunity for high school students to go on life-changing summer programs abroad, offering meaningful teen community service, hands-on learning and cultural immersion in ways that you just can’t get in a classroom.
Global Leadership Adventures’ summer volunteer programs focus on community service and grassroots social movements. Participants learn about working with children, protecting wildlife and the environment, international relations, healthcare, poverty alleviation, and political-economic issues. On weekends, students will go on exciting excursions to places of cultural or historical significance.
Parents of Global Learning Adventures student volunteers discover the rewards their child receives from teen volunteer abroad experiences – confidence, stronger self-esteem, and a global understanding – are immeasurable. Each student grows differently, but they all gain from the service-learning that international volunteering provides. Comments from Global Learning Adventures parents praise
Click here to continue readingSurvey Reveals How Existing Mentoring Programs Can be Improved and Specific Challenges to Overcome
Survey Reveals How Existing Mentoring Programs Can be Improved and Specific Challenges to Overcome
Euless, TX (PRWEB) February 8, 2011
Insala, the global leader in assisting organizations with career development and corporate mentoring programs, has released a new white paper containing compelling data from its recent mentoring survey.
The survey data gives HR and business professionals valuable insight into the biggest challenges and priorities of mentoring program implementation and management.
Of 288 HR and business professionals surveyed, a total of 86 percent indicated significant interest and involvement in mentoring (i.e. – either that mentoring programs existed within their organizations, or that their organizations were interested in implementing a program in the future).
53 percent of respondents had mentoring programs and indicated that the following were the biggest challenges:
Measuring program success and tying success to business objectives,
Determining proper metrics to gauge mentoring program success,
Matching compatible mentors and mentees, and
Recruiting qualified mentors.
