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Woman Leadership Empowerment Through Mentoring

As of January, IBM began empowering employees to reach across its global empire with the click of a button for advice on everything from preparing for a promotion to learning how to innovate.

The changes reflect the company's effort to become a truly global enterprise that relies on cross-border information--sharing and collaboration. "It became obvious that we had to make mentoring a tool for transferring knowledge globally," says Sheila Forte-Trammell, an IBM human resources consultant who helped launch the initiative.

Any IBM employee can now sign up to give or receive advice by filling out a profile in a Web-based directory called BluePages. Think of it as Match.com for mentoring. In less than two months, 3,000 people have joined.

Emerging women leaders outside IBM are also using the Internet to develop global mentoring relationships at www.WomanLeadership.com

Source: BUSINESSWEEK, March 23, 2009