Product Description

A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting an Effective Mentoring Program is a comprehensive and practical reference for coordinators who are introducing or revising programs based on the mentoring model of adult learning in the workplace. The expert guidance in the Guide will enable administrators to approach the development of one-to-one programs as:

Confident and factually informed advocates for genuine and productive workplace mentoring programs

Realistic and knowledgeable planners who provide both mentors and mentees with the opportunity to fully participate in the dynamic experience of collaborative learning.

The book has been designed to serve as a well-organized and readily accessible handbook. With careful attention to the realities of the contemporary work environment, A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting an Effective Mentoring Program logically details the four major steps required to start and manage a meaningful mentoring program. The full range and depth of topics that is covered by the material is demonstrated by the following list of selected contents:

Titles by Dr. Norman Cohen
The Mentoring Program
Becoming a Mentor: A Video-Based Workshop
Becoming a Mentor: A Video-Based Workshop - Additional Workbook
A Step-by-Step Guide to Starting An Effective Mentoring Program
Assessment of Organizational Readiness for Mentoring
Principles of Adult Mentoring Inventory - Assessment
Manager's Pocket Guide to Effective Mentoring

Mentor Critique Form
Mentee's Guide to Mentoring
Guide to Mentee Planning
Leader's Guide for the Principles of Adult Mentoring Inventory

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #652146 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 73 pages

About the Author
Norman Cohen holds a Doctorate in Adult Education and Psychology from Temple University and is a professor at the Community College of Philadelphia. He has conducted research, presented numerous articles, and authored Mentoring Adult Learners: A Guide for Educators and Trainers and Mentoring: New Strategies and Challenges.

He has worked extensively as a consultant with a wide range of business, government, health care, and academic organizations.

Customer Reviews

Nice concepts, weak on details
This book asks lots of great questions and makes a lot of great statements. However, it lacks any depth as far as providing practical information about implementing a mentoring program. (eg. no examples, case studies, etc...)

The content is a good introduction to mentoring - but probably comprable to what you'd find in a chapter in most any "Managing 101" type of book.

I would not recommend this book.