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Making Mentoring Happen: A simple and effective guide to implementing a successful mentoring program

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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.

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.

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!

Mentoring relationships in the adult business world makes good "business" sense! Not to mention the benefits that are derived by the employee through the mentoring relationship. Mentoring is not a new concept when adults look at the need for youth to have adult role models, so this next step in mentoring makes adults in business sit-up and take notice. Recently I became aware of adult business mentors charging enormous fees as life mentors for other adults. Giving other adults "permission" so to speak to take those risks in life that lead to life changes and increased satisfaction. As an author myself in the area of mentoring young adults, I find this a great read and one that offers a private or public agency a new road to travel. Why spend those enormous amounts of money on consultants when the information and talent is right there in your own pool of employees! This book shows you how to set up your own In-house mentoring program. Use your dollars wisely folks and get this book! Start making use of your in-house talents.

Must be some 'quality control' issues at the publisher. Make sure you have all pages. I was missing multiple pages.

Content if book is good.....just need all of it!