The Art of Mentoring: Lead, Follow and Get Out of the Way

by Shirley Peddy

A universal guide to developing the talents of others, The Art of Mentoring is a universal guide to developing the talents of others. It teaches how to create partnerships of trust and learning in today's challenging organizations. Brand new in the second edition are new chapters on "the art of being mentored" as well as a discussion of the four key purposes of mentoring. This is the captivating story of an internal consultant sent to a small subsidiary. Her rekindle motivation in the five marketers or recommend their termination. Her create a culture in which each person has the opportunity and help to succeed. Mentors learn to build a trusting relation; to teach a new employee the "unspoken rules"; to help the mentee transform a mundane job into a satisfying role; to prevent an employee from derailing his career with straight talk; to coach on interpersonal skills; and much more. It illustrates the mentoring process, "lead, follow AND get out of the way," answers the question of who should mentor and who shouldn't, and includes in this new edition ten principles that every mentor should follow and ten principles that every "mentee" should learn.

Genres: Leadership

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Jaime]

This book was a gift from work for joining a "Mentoring Ring" as a "mentee." I read it in two big gulps, so it was clearly easy to read and relatively enjoyable. I like how it made me think about the people I turn to for advice and how I can make those relationships most effective. However, I was surprised to find the examples somewhat, well, sexist. Of the two mentees with family, the man asked for a raise to support his family and the woman eventually quit to stay home with her children. The mentor, a woman, intertwined her relationship with her grown son throughout, and there was a brief paragraph spoken by a respected peer of the mentor about how the lack of two-parent families and working mothers are responsible for some general undefined societal decline.

[Larry]

This book on a mentoring culture is written as a story narrative providing different types of examples of how and when mentoring is done. Each chapter ended with bullet points on mentoring from the chapter. These are helpful for revisiting or priming the chapter before you read.

[Katym521]

Love this book! Very helpful to those that want to be a mentor and to those that are being mentored. Thank you Shirley Peddy Eads. Wonderful book!

[Evan]

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