He and 40 of his IT managers worked with an outside vendor to create a teamwork and team-building annual training session that all IT staff must attend. Jaffe sends his management staff to Bordeaux, France, for an annual team-building program that's run by Equitable's parent company, AXA Group. Jaffe also uses mentoring to help grow managers from the programming staff. While The CIT Group and Equitable Distributors assign mentors to newer employees, most IT leaders say they primarily use informal mentoring, offering advice when it seems needed and always providing it on request. They're too contrived.
People develop natural affinities to other people.
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