Product Description

This book will provide you with the tools to understand the unique role of mentors in today’s workplace, determine the most effective mentoring style for your situation, establish agreements to ensure a successful and rewarding relationship, and avoid behaviors that may interfere with mentee growth and development. Mentoring is a rewarding relationship that benefits both participants and the organization. The relationship is now seen as a process of two people working together for mutual gain and enrichment based on their shared experience. Today’s mentoring has evolved from simply training the employee to a productive relationship that offers guidance and counsel to develop another’s abilities to the fullest.

Learning Objectives: Explain how anyone can assist in the development of other people through mentoring. Suggest mentoring behaviors to adopt or avoid. Show how mentoring works in today's workplace.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #278306 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Customer Reviews

sorry, but these other reviews are cheats for sure
Hi,

I have no axe to grind, I'm not a writer of competing books or anything like that. I happen to have browsed this book at a store and sure - it's completely OK, but surely not an empirical 'four' as these reviews ("reviewers") seem to think.

Just have a look at the range of dates for the reviewers: an extremely tight band of dates, no? Somewhat suspiciously like the same person logged in several times in quick succession and consistiently gave his own book similar sized 4-star ratings back-to-back... March 21st (and the days directly around) was a slow day in your Diary, eh Gordon?

Good for him though, he didn't fall into the same trap as other self-reviewers - he went for all 'fours' instead of customary 'fives' that many other self-reviewers do.

Like I say I've browsed this book, it's fine, it is - but there's better out there, plenty of it in this popular category. Consider something else unless the scanned pages really shake up your soul.

PS - I tried to change my star rating: I think this book, from my store-scan, is a three star. It looks OK, is well-origanised and contains a good dose of useful (if not particularly inspiring) reading on the subject.

A good "basic" skills book
As we bridge the gap from the 20th on the eve of the new millimun, the face of the workplace is also changing. This has been brought on by technology taking on a bigger role in all areas of the job market, not just here but around the world where the role of the boss, teacher and manager is as well changing. The result is a shift away from the typical company man who had worked at one job for an entire career, to an environment of more female and less American male and the changing of jobs every few years do to mergers and down sizing of employees. Now the boss must be sensitive to the role they must play in working with everyone today.

Gordon Shea's easy to read book about mentoring is an excellent and easy to read "how to" book on today's workplace, and overcoming the obstacles associated with this "new" work environment.

The book is easy reading because of the layout of each seven sections, and the associated lessons, charts, reviews and assessments found at the end of each chapter. The strongest point in my opinion can is found in chapter 7, which covers those special areas, which we read about into today's news; Cross-Gender, Cross-Cultural and Special Needs mentoring.

Shea has woven humorous comments as well as lively graphical illustration to make points when certain mentoring situation arrive, overall this book is an excellent example of the basic "how to" and can provide the basic steps in becoming a productive mentor in any employment environment.

The kernal of mentoring in a nutshell
"...mentoring is part intuition, part feelings and part hunch - made up as you go along, and composed of whatever ingredients you have available at the moment..."(13) The quote sums up mentoring in a nutshell. This resource is in workbook format, providing readers with time and space to respond to thoughts and ideas presented in the book. It develops scenarios and questions preparing a first time mentor and helping an experienced mentor look into the practice of mentoring. It provides a graph describing the different types of mentoring and tips for intervention and counseling of mentees. This book seems most valuable for new mentors, although it could be a refresher for others. However, it does not go very in-depth and provides little research background. It also lacks a bibliography for references.