Mar
21
Written by:
Raquel Velez
3/21/2011 1:01 PM
by Scott Stone - President, On-Ramp Associates
Cornelius-based EQmentor is one of only 7 organizations worldwide – and 3 companies in the US – to receive a Talent Innovation Award from the New Talent Management Network (NTMN). The TIA recognition program was created to highlight organizations delivering truly innovative solutions that increase the impact of talent management.
"We are very excited that EQmentor has been acknowledged as an Innovator in the Talent Management space amongst a global peer group and from the largest network of Talent Managers in the world," said Dr. Izzy Justice, founder and CEO of EQmentor.
EQmentor is a subscription-based Web 2.0 service that combines mentoring, peer collaboration and knowledge repositories to support the talent management initiatives of HR organizations. By carefully matching client executives and senior managers to the world’s largest network of professional mentors, EQmentor leverages world-class technology to literally redefine the term mentoring.
“The desired outcome of mentoring is to get knowledge to those who need it so they can make better decisions. EQmentor accelerates this ‘Mobility of Knowledge’, substantially shortening the delay between when knowledge is acquired and when it is applied. The end result is a rapid, measureable increase in Emotional Intelligence (EQ), the core competency that drives all other competencies. In fact, EQmentor users see their EQ scores increase an average of 17 points and the service has delivered as much as six times the annual rate of development vs. other traditional approaches.”
The seeds for EQmentor’s solution were sown years ago when Izzy graduated from Davidson College.
“As a student from South Africa, I had assumed that business people in the US all operated at an optimum level of productivity and effectiveness. My initial experiences after college changed that impression and left me disillusioned. I was fascinated with how people acquire and leverage knowledge in order to improve business performance and during my career as a business consultant with Deloitte, Arthur Anderson, and Cerner I continued to develop the concepts that became EQmentor.”
This passion for understanding professional performance also led Izzy to write four books on the subject over the past 15 years.
“This is absolutely the best time to be alive. Technology has enabled so much access to information and knowledge, making us more productive at work and delivering a quality of life that all the billions of people who lived before us would envy!”
About the New Talent Management Network
Is the world’s largest network of talent management professionals with more than 1,800 members. The group has 3 primary objectives:
- Improve talent management effectiveness by conducting primary research to benefit the TM community
- Increase capabilities of TM professionals and effectiveness of the profession
- Coordinate opportunities for local networking among TM professionals