The manager's pocket guide to effective mentoring - Cohen, Norman (HRD Press, 1999)
Title from title screen. - Includes index
Cover -- TOC36;Table of Contents -- General Introduction -- Purpose -- Mentoring Today -- Organization of Work -- Additional Information about Mentoring -- CH36;The Mentor Role58; An Introduction -- The Six Mentoring Dimensions -- Planned Sessions -- Holistic Experience -- Active Participation -- Ideal vs46; Realistic -- CH36;The Complete Mentor Role58; Actions and Purpose -- Introduction -- Relationship Dimension -- Informative Dimension -- Facilitative Dimension -- Confrontive Dimension -- Mentor Model Dimension -- Employee Vision Dimension -- CH36;Phases of the Mentoring Relationship -- Introduction -- Concept of Phases -- Outline of Phases -- CH36;Applying the Six Mentor Dimensions -- Introduction -- Relationship Dimension8212;Trust -- Informative Dimension8212;Advice -- Facilitative Dimension8212;Alternatives -- Confrontive Dimension8212;Challenge -- Employee Vision Dimension8212;Initiative -- CH36;Maintaining Records of Mentoring Sessions -- Purpose of Notes -- Suggested Form for Records -- CH36;Mentee Learning Activities -- Introduction -- List -- CH36;A Practitioners Reference8212;Utilizing the Principles of Adult Mentoring Inventory -- Purpose of Practitioners Reference -- Organization of Material -- 146; Relationship Dimension -- Summary of Relationship Statements -- 246; Informative Dimension -- Summary of Informative Statements -- 346; Facilitative Dimension -- Summary of Facilitative Statements -- 446; Confrontive Dimension -- Summary of Confrontive Statements -- 546; Mentor Model Dimension -- Summary of Mentor Model Statements -- 646; Employee Vision Dimension -- Summary of Employee Vision Statements -- CH36;A Concise View of the Six Mentoring Dimensions -- Introduction -- Relationship Dimension -- Informative Dimension -- Facilitative Dimension -- Confrontive Dimension -- Mentor Model Dimension -- Employee Vision Dimension -- IDX36;INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- Last Page
This book is a practical reference to effective mentoring in a format that provides quick access to the important concepts and techniques of this unique, powerful, one-to-one learning model. The Manager's Pocket Guide to Mentoring is a convenient and comprehensive reference, offering valuable, pragmatic guidance that mentors can use in assisting mentees to: Participate in constructive interpersonal dialogues during the mentoring experience; Map out attainable personal and professional goals; Analyze problems, formulate realistic solutions, and make constructive decisions; Plan workable strategies for promoting career, training, and educational development; Initiate positive actions to achieve stated objectives. This guide presents an expanded view of the behavioral expertise required of today's mentors who are faced with the challenge of establishing and sustaining mentoring relationships within more complex workplace, academic, and social environments
Keywords: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Training; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Mentoring & Coaching; Employees / Counseling of; Mentoring in business; Personnel management; Wirtschaft; Mentoring in business -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Employees -- Counseling of; Personnel management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc