Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Mentoring & Coaching

One of the most valuable roles a manager can perform in today's rapidly changing environment is to mentor and inspire the people around them to learn. By nurturing talent, motivating individual development, and encouraging excellence, a manager's mentoring can enhance individual performance and the organization's prospects for success. Mentoring is not an easy skill to develop, and many managers, who may excel at leading or coaching, may be disasters as mentors when it comes to creating a bond and bringing out untapped qualities in others. "The Manager as Mentor" goes beyond traditional...

"The Successful Coach is terrific-practical, friendly, and very helpful. Instead of fearfully wondering, 'Can I make it as a coach?' aspiring...

Through powerful...

In Personal Coaching for Results, Lou Tice walks you through the process to coach yourself to effectiveness and success, step by step. Using what he wrote here builds your personal effectiveness and then guides you on your way to becoming the credible, influential mentor you have it in you to be.

The foundation for this work is the Kybalion, the...

"Some people just can't take criticism. And some people just can't give it--not in a positive, motivating, mutually beneficial manner, anyway. That's too bad, because criticism is essential to many aspects of business, such as performance appraisals, quality control, and team functioning, to name a few.

This empowering book helps readers take the sting out of criticism--and transform it from a destructive, demoralizing disaster into an energizing, educating experience that builds relationships and increases individual and organizational success.

Using real-life scenarios and the...

Ask the best leaders in any organization how they learned to be successful, and you often hear the same answer: they had a good mentor.

Now international leadership expert John Maxwell gives the bottom line on mentoring in one short, easy-to-read volume. In Mentoring 101, he gives the steps needed to effectively reproduce your success in someone else. He explains how to choose the right person to mentor, how to create the right environment for leaders to thrive and grow, and how to get started.

What if you spent your entire life achieving but never shared your wisdom...

PRAISE FOR THE MENTEE'S GUIDE

"The Mentee's Guide inspires and guides the potential mentee, provides new insights for the adventure in learning that lies ahead, and underscores my personal belief and experience that mentoring is circular. The mentor gains as much as the mentee in this evocative relationship. Lois Zachary's new book is a great gift."
--Frances Hesselbein, chairman and founding president, Leader to Leader Institute

"Whether you are the mentee or mentor, born or made for the role, you will gain much more from the relationship by practicing the fun and easy...

"Definitive, with extensive references and a commitment to connecting theory to practice in every chapter, this important contribution is a delicious and wide-ranging exploration of the lineages that have shaped the modern practice of coaching."
--Doug Silsbee, author, Presence-Based Coaching and The Mindful Coach

"The translation of theories from multiple disciplines to the practice of coaching makes this book a must-read "
--Terrence E. Maltbia, senior lecturer, Adult Learning and...

Written for coaches, consultants, leadership development directors, and anyone working in or with teams, The Hedgehog Effect begins with an in-depth analysis of what teams and groups...

The Mentoring in Higher Education: Best Practices Workbook consists of suggested exercises for all mentoring participants and includes protege vignettes, faculty vignettes, and basic questions for starting and implementing a mentoring program. Each suggested exercise or question begins with a list of skills or proposed mentoring activities that program administrators, mentors and proteges can use as additional sources of training and professional development activities. In all cases, the exercises and...