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Mentoring Resources

Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success
Author:Sheila Wellington

Surprising secrets of success from some of America's women leaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed in this mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president of Catalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how to tell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the real world of work today and how to get ahead.

Catalyst studies reveal that having a mentor is the crucial key to success at work, and it's the single advantage men usually have, and women usually don't. Even at the best organizations for women, there is still a shortage of mentors. Be Your Own Mentor becomes that mentor for you, providing through stories and eye-opening advice a step-by-step guide to advancement.

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The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships
Author:Lois J. Zachary

Thoughtful and rich with advice, The Mentor's Guide explores the critical process of mentoring and presents practical tools for facilitating the experience from beginning to end. Now managers, teachers, and leaders from any career, professional, or educational setting can successfully navigate the learning journey by using the hands-on worksheets and exercises in this unique resource.

Readers will learn how to:

  • Assess their readiness to become a mentor
  • Establish the relationship
  • Set appropriate goals
  • Monitor progress and achievement
  • Avoid common pitfalls
  • Bring the relationship to a natural conclusion
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The Mentee's Guide to Mentoring
Author:Norman H. Cohen

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The Mentee's Guide to Mentoring offers practical guidance in the art of establishing and maintaining productive interpersonal communication with mentors. Mentees who are knowledgeable about the dynamics of the one-to-one mentoring relationship - especially from the perspective of the trained mentor - will be in a stronger position to directly contribute to a more effective utilization of time and energy during their own participation in a mentoring program.

The Guide is divided into 15 sections. Each section contains concise information about an important facet of the mentoring experience. As a unified approach to mentoring, the total work will provide mentees with a comprehensive overview of the one-to-one model of learning. In addition, a detailed subject index offers more precise assistance in locating specific topics.

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Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization's Guide
Author:Lois J. Zachary

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In order to succeed in today’s competitive environment, corporate and nonprofit institutions must create a workplace climate that encourages employees to continue to learn and grow. From the author of the best-selling The Mentor’s Guide comes the next-step mentoring resource to ensure personnel at all levels of an organization will teach and learn from each other. Written for anyone who wants to embed mentoring within their organization, Creating a Mentoring Culture is filled with step-by-step guidance, practical advice, engaging stories, and includes a wealth of reproducible forms and tools.

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US $40.50

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Guide to Mentee Planning
Author:Norman Cohen

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The Guide to Mentee Planning includes nine forms specifically designed to assist mentees in organizing and recording their plans for learning during their involvement in the mentoring program:

  • Mentee Profile Form
  • Mentoring Session Record
  • Activities and Action Plan Checklist
  • Review of Resources
  • Learning Plans
  • Guide to Mentee Networking
  • One Year Mentoring Calendar
  • One Year Networking Calendar
  • Self-Assessment of Mentee Readiness
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US $14.95

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The Elements of Mentoring
Author:W. Brad Johnson, Charles R. Ridley

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Patterned after Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style, this reference concisely summarizes the substantial existing research on the art and science of mentoring. The Elements of Mentoring reduces this wealth of published material on the topic to the fifty most important and pithy truths for supervisors in all fields. These explore what excellent mentors do, what makes an excellent mentor, how to set up a successful mentor-protégé relationship, how to work through problems that develop between mentor and protégé, what it means to mentor with integrity, and how to end the relationship when it has run its course. Succinct and comprehensive, this is a must-have for any mentor or mentor-to-be.

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The Heart of Mentoring: Ten Proven Principles for Developing People to Their Fullest Potential
Author:Robert Tamasy, David A. Stoddard

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With this book, you will see that sharing your life with others is the most rewarding gift you can give--and the most satisfying gift you can receive.

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Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance
Author:Harvard Business School Press

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Effective managers know that timely coaching can dramatically enhance their teams’ performance

Coaching and Mentoring offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals.

This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching.Managers will learn how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees.

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Career Resources

What Color Is Your Parachute? for Retirement: Planning Now for the Life You Want
Author:Richard Nelson Bolles, John E. Nelson

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For more than 35 years, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? has guided millions of job-hunters to find satisfying careers. Now, PARACHUTE FOR RETIREMENT will help them plan for the next stage of life. Going beyond financial planning, Richard N. Bolles and retirement expert John E. Nelson tackle readiness in terms of money, health, and happiness, using the latest research from economics, medicine, and psychology. PARACHUTE FOR RETIREMENT will inspire readers to take the helm of their retirement destinies, while fulfilling their lifelong goals, passions, and dreams.

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What Color Is Your Parachute Workbook: How to Create a Picture of Your Ideal Job or Next Career
Author:Richard Nelson Bolles

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Richard Nelson Bolles presents an updated version of one of the most widely acclaimed exercises from PARACHUTE, the Flower. This highly effective tool, reproduced here in handy workbook form, helps readers target their ideal work situation. Simple step-by-step worksheets focus on translating personal interests into marketable job skills as well as often-ignored issues such as spiritual or emotional fulfillment in the workplace. These exercises are easy to do yet thought provoking. When completed, the workbook will present you with a full picture of your ideal job.

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2008: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career-Changers
Author:Richard Nelson Bolles

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WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world. A favorite of job hunters and career changers for more than three decades, it continues to be a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and has been translated into 12 languages. The 2008 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."

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US$ 12.70

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What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009: A Practical Manual for Job-hunters and Career Changers
Author:Richard Nelson Bolles

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Still the best-selling job-hunting book in the world, WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PARACHUTE? is the most complete guide for first-time job seekers as well as second and encore careers changers. For more than three decades, it remains a mainstay on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week to the New York Times, where it has spent more than six years, and it has been translated into 20 languages. The 2009 edition is an even more useful book, with its updated, inspiring, and detailed plan for changing readers' lives. With new examples, instructions, and cautionary advice, PARACHUTE is, to quote Fortune magazine, "the gold standard of career guides."

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Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You'll Love to Do
Author:Shoya Zichy, Ann Bidou

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For some, a job is just a way to pay the bills. For others -- those whose careers fit their passions and personalities -- it is a source of great satisfaction and success. Career Match is designed to help people discover their ideal work. Using the author's revealing ten-minute self-assessment, the book helps readers determine their personality style, then walks them through the range of career choices best for them. This indispensable guide will enable anyone to:

  • identify the type of work that will inspire and exhilarate them
  • recognize the type of boss and work environment they need to thrive
  • confirm the rightness of the path they are on -- or help them find a better one
  • speed up their job search
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Love 'em or Lose 'em
Author:Beverly Kaye

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LOVE 'EM or LOSE `EM contains 26 steps for improving employee retention organized in an A-Z fashion. Although written during the recent boom times when retention was a challenge, information presented is quite valuable now for managers who wish to stay employed. The suggestions will promote a happier and more productive workforce. Many of the concepts can be applied to all interpersonal relationships - between co-workers, family and friends.

The book's presentation is visually appealing - section headings and key passages are in a complimentary blue font. There are various other eye-catching features that make the book interesting and exciting. Each chapter starts with a short statement from a fictitious employee referred to as A.J some key excerpts follow

Introduction:
I quit.
I'm giving you my notice.
I found another opportunity.
I've accepted another offer.
Can we talk

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Love It, Don't Leave It
Author:Beverly Kaye

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Love It, Don't Leave It encourages employees to assume responsibility for the way their work lives work. This is not difficult, say authors Beverly Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans, who take a witty and practical approach to finding job satisfaction. Presented in an appealing, accessible A to Z format, the book includes strategies for communication, career growth, balancing work with family, and more. Chapters include "Ask: And You May Receive," "Jerk: Work with One?" "Passion: It's Not Just a Fruit," and "Zenith: Are We There Yet?" The same breezy, results-minded style that made the authors' Love 'Em or Lose 'Em a bestseller makes this follow-up a fun and inspiring read.

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The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring: A Multiple Perspectives Approach
Author: Tammy D. Allen (Editor), Lillian T. Eby

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Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring.

  • Provides a complete, multi-disciplinary look at the practice and theory of mentoring and demonstrates its advantages
  • Brings together, for the first time, expert researchers from the three primary areas of mentoring: workplace, academy, and community
  • Leading scholars provide critical analysis on important literature concerning theoretical approaches and methodological issues in the field
  • Final section presents an integrated perspective on mentoring relationships and projects a future agenda for the field
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The Handbook of Mentoring at Work: Theory, Research, and Practice (Hardcover)
Author: by Belle Rose Ragins (Editor), Kathy E. Kram (Editor)

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"This handbook is poised to become a classic in career and mentoring literature with its potential long-term heuristic usefulness in generating new intersections among theory,research, and practice...it is encouraging that so much of the handbook establishes grounds for future communication research and relates directly to current trends in organizational and managerial communication."
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Mentoring: The Tao of Giving and Receiving Wisdom (Hardcover)
Author:by Chungliang A. Huang

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The new model for business and personal relationships based on the simple yet profound principle of mentoring -- both giving and receiving knowledge in a creative mutual exchange.
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