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

by Kathy Lacey (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
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.

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

• Paperback: 123 pages
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin Pty., Limited (Australia) (March 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1875680683
• ISBN-13: 978-1875680689
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #881,323 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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, March 29, 2000

By	Ashish Bhatnagar (New York) - See all my reviews

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.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great for education, short on systems perspective, May 10, 2002

By	Mary R. Bast (Gainesville, Florida United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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, September 19, 2001

By	Shirley R Peddy (Corpus Christi, TX United States) - See all my reviews

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!