Description
Mentoring is the most cost-efficient and sustainable method of fostering and developing talent within your organisation.
Mentoring can be used to:
- stretch talented employees to perform even better by exposure to high performing colleagues
- ensure that experience is passed and kept within your organisation, and
- power your diversity programme by supporting employees from groups that are under-represented in your organisation by having them talk with others who have overcome similar barriers.
It is the ultimate win-win business tool. The employer gets a helping hand to fast-track their career and the mentor gets the satisfaction of helping others develop, while the organisation gets improved performance and employee retention.
This text explains what mentoring is and how it differs from coaching. It shows you how to make the business case for mentoring and then how to set up, run and maintain your own mentoring programme. Everything from selecting and matching mentors and mentees to measuring the results. Contents
PART 1: INTRODUCTION
The What and Why of Mentoring
PART 2: MODELS AND METHODS OF MENTORING
Models and Methods of Mentoring
How Formal Should the Mentoring Programme be?
Making the Case for Mentoring
What Makes an Effective Mentor, an Effective Mentee?
Matching Mentors and Mentees
Setting up the Mentoring Programme
PART 3: MANAGING MENTORING PROGRAMMES AND RELATIONSHIPS
Beginning the Mentoring Relationship
Standards for Mentoring Programmes
Peer and Reverse Mentoring
Phases of the Mentoring Relationship
Problems of Mentoring Programmes and Relationships
PART 4: SPECIFIC MENTORING ISSUES
Graduate Mentoring
Diversity Mentoring
Executive Mentoring
E-Mentoring
PART 5: CONCLUSION
Final IssuesAuthors
David Clutterbuck
David Clutterbuck is one of Europe's most prolific and well-known management writers and thinkers. He has written more than 40 books, including Managing Work-Life Balance and Learning Alliances. Everyone Needs a Mentor is now the classic book on the subject and he is recognised as the UK's leading expert on mentoring and co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council. He is Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam University.Reviews
'This book was invaluable to us when we were setting up our mentoring programme. The practical advice on "how to do it right", and equally "what not to do", really helped us to shape the programme. Now that it is up and running, when someone volunteers to become a mentor I ask them to read David's book as part of their preparation.'
Colleen Harding
Staff Development Officer
Bournemouth University