The Mentoring Advantage: Creating the Next Generation of Leaders

by Stone, Florence

• ISBN13: 9780793186921
• ISBN10: 0793186927
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Kaplan

Summary

Lower employee turnover, grow and develop careers, and significantly increase your company's bottom line.Mentoring is sweeping through companies both large and small. Increasingly, companies are running formal mentoring programs as a means to speed employee growth, build corporate cohesiveness, shorten learning tracks, support diversity initiatives, and address succession issues. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of informal mentoring relationships exist as ambitious young managers and would-be entrepreneurs look for ways to achieve their career goals faster.Regardless of the scenario, mentoring demands a variety of skills, according to award-winning business author Florence Stone. InThe Mentoring Advantage, she outlines how executives, managers, and employees can get the very most out the mentoring relationship. She details specific behaviors that mentors require, as well as others they should avoid. In the process, readers will learn how to:* Use corporate mentoring for developmental purposes.* Design mentoring programs for strategic purposes, from succession planning to diversity training to lifelong learning.* Avoid the pitfalls, get through crises and morale issues, clarify misconceptions, and realize the full benefits of a mentorship.* Spot raw talent and mold others toward achieving growth and excellence, so they come away from the experience feeling better about themselves and what they do.* Get out of a nonproductive mentoring relationship.

Author Biography

Florence Stone is an award-winning author penning more than 15 business books

Table of Contents

Foreword	v
Frances Hesselbein
Introduction What Mentoring Is All About---and What It Isn't About	ix
PART ONE BUILDING MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS
Who is to be a Mentor, Whom is to be Mentored?	1	(16)
The Three Stages of Mentoring	17	(12)
PART TWO THE EFFECTIVE MENTOR: ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Being a Role Model, Broker, and Advocate	29	(12)
Mentor as Career Counselor	41	(16)
Straight Talk	57	(18)
The E-Dimension	75	(16)
Mentoring Through Difficult Situations	91	(14)
Supervisor as Mentor	105	(14)
Traps to Avoid	119	(12)
PART THREE TEAM MENTORING
Team Mentorship and its Challenges	131	(16)
PART FOUR THE HOW-TO OF FACILITATED PROGRAMS
What Makes a Successful Formal System?	147	(14)
Selection of a Program Coordinator or Coordinating Committee---and Their Responsibilities	161	(18)
Negotiating Sound Mentoring Agreements and Evaluating Results	179	(14)
Special Situations	193	(14)
Index	207