Saturday, November 22, 2008

Books on Mentoring

cover Mentoring in Australia
by Ann Rolfe-Flett

The tremendous popularity of mentoring as a way of achieving strategic objectives means many people in organisations are being asked to implement effective mentoring programs. But how? Mentoring in Australia provides everything you need to understand mentoring and establish a beneficial mentoring program within your organisation.

cover Mentoring Heroes : 52 Fabulous Women's Paths to Success and the Mentors Who Empowered Them
by Mary K. Doyle

MENTORING HEROES honors the important role mentoring played in the climb to success of 52 women. Those who were mentored unanimously acknowledged the tremendous impact it had in their personal and professional lives claiming they reached higher levels faster because of their mentors. The women represent a diverse range of professions and lifestyles. Their stories are honest, insightful and inspiring.

cover The Mentee's Guide to Mentoring
by Dr. Norman H. Cohen

This useful book offers practical guidance in the art of establishing productive interpersonal communication with mentors. The Guide is divided into fifteen sections. Each section contains concise information about an important facet of the mentoring experience.

cover Making the Most of Being Mentored: How to Grow from a Mentoring Partnership (Fifty-Minute Series.)
by Gordon F. Shea

Focuses on mastering the knowledge, skills, and practices of successful mentors. Offers exercises, information, and self-study activities for those who would like to be mentored.

cover Because You Believed In Me: Mentors and Proteges Who Shaped Our World
by Marcia A. McMullen, Patricia M. Miller

Because You Believed in Me uses stories of real people---Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Claude Monet and Eugene Boudin, Ulysses S.Grant and Abraham Lincoln---to demonstrate the powerful benefits of mentoring. The relationships of these and other historical pairs are explored...

cover Mentoring and Diversity
by David Clutterbuck, Belle Rose Ragins

"Mentoring and Diversity explores two critical topics relevant to organizations of today and tomorrow. The additional focus on developing diverse mentoring relationships within a global perspective makes this book unique and its contribution significant. The individual case studies add a practical...

cover Mentor Manager/Mentor Parent: How to Develop Responsible People and Build Successful Relationships at Work and at Home
by Linda Dowling, Cecile Culp Mielenz

Authors Dowling and Mielenz provide their readers with a step-by-step practical approach to mentoring that combines successful management methods with down-to-earth parenting practices. This thoughtful and insightful guide teaches how to build respectful, collaborative relationships at work and at home.

cover Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success
by Betty Spence

All of us, from birth onward, learn by emulating others. Yet when it comes to our professional lives, we often forget that what we see, we imitate, and what we imitate, we become. This is obviously a positive thing for those who have found successful, encouraging mentors in their fields, but finding...

cover Mentoring: How to Develop Successful Mentor Behaviors (Crisp 50-Minute Book)
by Gordon F. Shea

A recent bestseller with more than 50,000 copies sold, this revised edition of Mentoring brings the reader up to date on the mentoring process and tells how to use it effectively. Shea explains both what it means to be a mentor and examines the methods and styles of mentoring.

cover The Art of Mentoring: Lead, Follow and Get Out of the Way
by Shirley Peddy

Peddy uses storytelling as a tool to illuminate the key elements of a mentoring culture and to examine how mentoring works in practical situations. Peddy's frame story is the temporary assignment of her narrator, Rachel Hanson, a corporate training specialist for Perry Winkle Enterprises, to...