Online Courses
Being a Good Mentor (1 hour)
Becoming a mentor gives you a way to share your wisdom and knowledge with someone less experienced. People who mentor also benefit; studies have shown they often earn more money and promotions than nonmentors. But there are some important guidelines to consider before you start this mutually beneficial relationship. In the course, professor Ellen Ensher, author of Power Mentoring, explains how to get to know your protégé, shares the dos and don'ts for appropriate self-disclosure, and helps you develop a structure and agenda for each mentoring meeting.
How to Be a Good Mentee and Mentor (27 minutes)
Mentorship can make a difference to anyone's career—mentees and mentors alike. While they're often thought of as being one-sided, these relationships can create value for both parties. Join speaker and author Emilie Aries as she answers your biggest questions around mentorship, so you can excel as a mentee or mentor. Explore the roles, expectations, and ways you can nurture and add value to the relationship, from establishing mutual goals to keeping in regular contact.
Becoming an Inspiring Mentor (47 minutes)
Learning from a mentor is an invaluable professional experience. Your mentor guides you, shares perspective, and serves as an important member of your network. But how do you become the type of mentor who can do all of these things? A mentor who’s always there for others often seems like an impossible ideal. In this course, Dr. Ruth Gotian explores what it means to truly become a mentor who inspires others. Ruth leverages her many years as a tenured executive and professional coach to highlight the important role that mentors can play in success.
Books
Mentoring 101: What Every Leader Needs to Know
Author: John C Maxwell
Summary: Through this essential and easy-to-read reference book, international leadership expert John C. Maxwell gives you the bottom line on mentoring--what it is, why you should do it, and how you can do it most effectively. In Mentoring 101, Maxwell guides you in the art of mentoring by explaining:
how to choose the right person to mentor,
how to create the right environment for leaders to thrive and grow,
how to help people become better,
and how to overcome the most intimidating hurdle of all: getting started.
What if you spent your entire life achieving but never shared your wisdom with anyone else?
Author: Ann Rolfe
Summary: Mentoring Mindset, Skills and Tools is written for both for mentors and mentees, so you can literally be on the same page. It is based on decades of experience and explains the essential ingredients of mentoring conversations and relationships that work.
In this book you’ll discover:
What mentoring is and isn’t and the differences between mentoring and coaching
Mentor and mentee roles and responsibilities
A framework for the mentoring process
How to start, maintain and end an effective mentoring relationship
What to do to build trust and rapport
Ways to lead learning and strengths-based development
Practical tips, guides, activities, and templates
10 Steps to Successful Mentoring
Author: Wendy Axelrod
Summary: While mentoring resources typically center on the mentee or the program, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is devoted explicitly to helping you excel in the role of mentor. In this book, Wendy Axelrod helps you stretch your mentoring abilities to yield substantial rewards for you and your mentee. Drawing on more than 20 years of work with mentors, she delves into proven approaches to use in your ongoing meetings, such as elevating the power of questions, leveraging experience for learning, and expanding growth using everyday psychology. Come away inspired to take on a fresh challenge. Whether mentoring is a calling or a choice, you’re new to it or a seasoned veteran, or you’re in a formal program or on your own, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is the resource you’ll return to again and again. It’s filled with real-life examples and 40 tools to help you master the nuances that drive deliberate development. Woven throughout are Wendy’s seven guiding principles that distinguish the most successful mentors (hint: “Start where your mentee is, not where you think they should be”).
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