The Complete Guide to Mentoring: How to Design, Implement and Evaluate Effective Mentoring Programmes

by Hilarie Owen

Overview

Mentoring is a powerful tool in the development of talent within any organization. Experienced colleagues develop the skills, capabilities and confidence of more junior staff, who will go on to contribute to, and drive the success of, the organization. The Complete Guide to Mentoring is your step-by-step guide to implementing a successful mentoring programme in your organization. Packed with high-profile interviews, case studies and questionnaires, it includes a wealth of practical advice on every aspect of the design, fulfilment and assessment of a mentoring scheme. Learn how to set up an effective mentoring programme, develop the knowledge and skills you and your team need to run a programme, assess the time and cost implications and evaluate the impact of your programme.

The Complete Guide to Mentoring is the essential toolkit for anyone who wants to create and run mentoring programmes, whether for a large or small organization, with confidence and success.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749461140
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	10/25/2011
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Hilarie Owen has been a successful director, author, strategist, founder and Chief Executive of the Institute of Leadership. She was Head of Leadership Services for the Police Service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland after a successful corporate career and has worked for a variety of global companies in the United States, Europe, Middle East and South Africa. She has lectured at Cranfield, Manchester Business School and Madrid Universityand was invited to speak at Harvard Kennedy School of Government in a debate on how people learn leadership.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 01: Introduction to mentoring; ** Chapter - 02: Mentoring in organizations; ** Chapter - 03: Finding the right people; ** Chapter - 04: The nuts and bolts of a mentoring scheme; ** Chapter - 05: The role of mentoring in diversity and culture; ** Chapter - 06: Evaluating mentoring; ** Chapter - 07: The wisdom of mentoring; ** Chapter - 08: Mentoring for small and medium enterprises; ** Chapter - 09: Mentoring for leadership; ** Chapter - 10: Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Hilarie Owen has produced a well researched and highly practical guide to one of the most pressing topics of the day. Both large corporations and ambitious SME companies will find this guide an invaluable tool to accessing the cost effective solution mentoring gives to the issue of identifying and unlocking the potential talent that exists within their organisations in the face of increasingly tight internal resources". — Tony Stubbs, Regional Director, Executives Online 

"Owen...outlines the steps to implementing a mentoring program at an organization, for those seeking mentors, who want to be one, or who are interested in setting up a program to create increased progress in an organization. She explains its differences from coaching, planning and structure aspects, understanding how adults learn, identifying mentors and mentees, its role in diversity and culture, evaluation, the element of sharing wisdom, and mentoring for small and medium enterprises and for leadership." — Book News, Inc.

"I commend this book for its pragmatic approach to many of the core issues and applications of mentoring - and for its store of wisdom." — Dr. David Clutterbuck

Editorial Reviews

"Hilarie Owen has produced a well researched and highly practical guide to one of the most pressing topics of the day. Both large corporations and ambitious SME companies will find this guide an invaluable tool to accessing the cost effective solution mentoring gives to the issue of identifying and unlocking the potential talent that exists within their organisations in the face of increasingly tight internal resources."

Tony Stubbs

"Hilarie Owen has produced a well-researched and highly practical guide to one of the most pressing topics of the day. Both large corporations and ambitious SME companies will find this guide an invaluable tool to accessing the cost effective solution mentoring gives to the issue of identifying and unlocking the potential talent that exists within their organisations in the face of increasingly tight internal resources". —Tony Stubbs, Regional Director, Executives Online 

"Owen...outlines the steps to implementing a mentoring program at an organization, for those seeking mentors, who want to be one, or who are interested in setting up a program to create increased progress in an organization. She explains its differences from coaching, planning and structure aspects, understanding how adults learn, identifying mentors and mentees, its role in diversity and culture, evaluation, the element of sharing wisdom, and mentoring for small and medium enterprises and for leadership." —Book News, Inc.

"I commend this book for its pragmatic approach to many of the core issues and applications of mentoring - and for its store of wisdom." —Dr. David Clutterbuck

"Business strategist Hilarie Owen aims to close the gap between "power and wisdom" with a comprehensive toolkit designed to help your company create, implement and evaluate a mentoring program. She draws upon research into how individuals can change the way they think about and learn from their experiences to make better decisions. …getAbstract finds plenty of value in this pragmatic, informative guide." —getAbstract

From the Publisher