Mentoring programs can help businesses reduce staff turnover, train new employees successfully, fast-track stellar workers, motivate senior staff, and improve company performance, morale, and diversity. This guide to setting up and implementing successful mentoring programs shows how to reap their benefits without hiring expensive consultants or spending excess time and energy to get a program up and running. Full of proven strategies and practical ideas, this book offers a straightforward explanation of what mentoring is and why it has become so important in many successful organizations. The characteristics of a good program are analyzed and explained to allow programs to be tailored to specific companies. Easy-to-follow training activities, advice on building mentoring relationships, and potential problems to avoid are included.
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Kathy Lacey is the owner of Right Angles Consulting, a company that specializes in mentoring programs. She is the author of Performance Appraisal and Career Planning.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Mentor to Teach, Equip and Impart,
By Ashish Bhatnagar (New York) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Making Mentoring Happen: A simple and effective guide to implementing a successful mentoring program (Paperback)
An excellent book that describes distinctly the importance of effective mentoring. This book teaches expressly how to be the transformational mentor, who understand the inner needs of the person and teaches how to reach out to that person and build their lives effectively.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great for education, short on systems perspective,
By
This review is from: Making Mentoring Happen: A simple and effective guide to implementing a successful mentoring program (Paperback)
The author, Kathy Lacey, is an educator and does an excellent job of defining the mentoring roles, process, and necessary training. Lacey is clear how important it is that organizational members are interested in mentoring and have the skills to build supportive relationships. What is missing is the systemic organizational perspective. I recommend that this book be used as a supplement to Kathy Kram's book, Mentoring at Work, because Kram very skillfully argues that even a perfect mentoring program will flounder unless the organization's reward system, culture, and norms value and encourage relationship-building activities; and opportunities exist for frequent and open interaction between managers at different career stages and hierarchical levels. To be successful, mentoring must be viewed as a valued expectation instead of a distraction from task-related activities, and the norms must support conversations about employees' jobs and personal dilemmas instead of only focusing on the bottom line.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
As an author on mentoring,
By Shirley Peddy "Author of The Art of Mentoring" (Corpus Christi, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Making Mentoring Happen: A simple and effective guide to implementing a successful mentoring program (Paperback)
Kathy Lacey's book is a practical guide that should be read by any organization considering a mentoring initiative. I highly recommend it to any organization considering a mentoring initiative. The orientation program she presents is user-friendly and right on the mark. There are no vague concepts in this book. Lacey provides practical checklists and worksheets that can be adopted with few changes. From one author to another--bravo!
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tag this product(What's this?)Think of a tag as a keyword or label you consider is strongly related to this product.
Tags will help all customers organize and find favorite items. |
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
