Product Description

Mentoring is the most cost-efficient and sustainable method of fostering and developing talent within your organisation.

You can use mentoring to: stretch talented employees to perform even better by exposure to high performing colleagues; ensure that experience is passed and kept within your organisation; power your diversity programme by supporting employees from groups that are under-represented in your organisation by having them talk with others who have overcome similar barriers.

David Clutterbuck shows you what mentoring is and how it differs from coaching. It shows you how to make the business case for mentoring and then how set up, run and maintain your own mentoring programme. Everything from selecting and matching mentors and mentees to measuring the results.

Mentoring is the ultimate win-win-win business tool. The employee gets a helping hand to fast-track their career and the mentor gets the satisfaction of helping others develop and benefits form the reflection the process requires, while the organisation gets improved performance, and employee retention.

In short: mentoring works. Here's how.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59487 in Books
• Published on: 2004-04-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 200 pages

Synopsis
Mentoring is the most cost efficient and sustainable method of fostering and developing talent within your organisation. Talented employees can be stretched to perform even better by exposure to high performing colleagues. Experience can be passed on more effectively one-to-one. Employees from groups that are under-represented in the organisation can be supported and developed by talking to others who have overcome similar barriers. This book shows you what mentoring is and how it differs from coaching. It shows you how to make the business case for mentoring and then how set up, run and maintain your mentoring program. It covers everything from selecting and matching mentors with mentees to how you measure the results. In short: mentoring works. This book tells you how.

About the Author
David Clutterbuck is one of Europe''s most prolific and well-known
management writers and thinkers. He has written more than 40 books,
including Managing Work-Life Balance, Learning Alliances. Everyone Needs a
Mentor is now the classic book on the subject and he is recognised as the
UK''''s leading expert on mentoring and co-founder of the European
Mentoring and Coaching Council. He is Visiting Professor at Sheffield
Hallam University.