International Mentoring Conference will be held on September 28 in Luxembourg. The agenda of the event can be found in the attachment.
 
Starting from 2010, a new Cross-Mentoring Program for Women and Men in Leading Positions will be set up in Kazakhstan, too.
 
While training is a partial solution for hard skills transfer, it is less effective for soft skills development such as leadership, team decision making and managerial development.  This is where structured mentoring programs come into their own as these programs help key employees to develop over time changing their way of thinking, making decisions and implementation behavior in the process.  This is life-long learning at its best.

Although Luxembourg is a tiny but very rich fully developed country and Kazahkstan is a very large, developing country, both have the similar problems of managing significant expat populations vital to economic success and knowledge transfer to local employees. 

The Luxembourg experience demonstrates that Structured Mentoring is a proven tool that works and could be a valuable tool for Kazakhstan companies to help them develop the full potential of their employees. 

For additional information and registration for the international Mentoring Conference or the Cross-Mentoring Program set-up in Almaty, please contact: Rita Knott at info@ritaknott.com or visit www.cross-mentoring.net