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Power Mentoring
How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships
"A wonderfully useful and readable book about the underacknowledged significance of mentoring." "There are few career relationships as pivotal as the one with a mentor. This wonderful book takes readers deep into the chemistry of the best of these. Full of compelling stories to illustrate its lessons, it is a treasure trove of insights. "All successful people have someone in their life who helps them at various stages in their development. In Power Mentoring, one finds close-up examples of how mentoring has played an important part leading to individual success. This is one of the most important books on the subject of mentoring to be written in years." "Power Mentoring adeptly bridges the academic-practitioner divide by providing practical advice that is firmly grounded in academic research and the authors’ own interviews with an amazing array of power mentors and their protégés. The result is a compelling, accessible, and engaging account of how to create, nourish, and flourish effective mentoring relationships. The book brings mentoring to life, and the reader quickly becomes captivated by the stories, accounts, and narratives of Power Mentoring. From Oprah to Spielberg to Welch--who can resist reading this book?" "Mentoring is so important for any leader, small business owner or entrepreneur—this book is a must-read!"
--Warren Bennis, author, On Becoming a Leader, and coauthor, Geeks and Geezers
--Jay A. Conger, Kravis Professor of Leadership, Claremont McKenna College, and author, Building Leaders
--Henry R. Kravis, founding partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
--Belle Rose Ragins, professor of management, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and coauthor, Mentoring and Diversity: An International Perspective
--Charles Segars, head, Fine Living Cable Network, and executive producer of the movie National Treasure
Ellen A. Ensher (Author), Susan E. Murphy (Author)
9780787979522, Wiley
Hardback, published 23 September 2005
368 pages, Charts: 3 B&W, 0 Color; Tables: 5 B&W, 0 Color; Exhibits: 16 B&W, 0 Color
23.1 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.59 kg
"...provides a useful snapshot of the issues, dramas and special challenges women and minorities face in the modern workplace..." (getAbstract, August 2006)
Written to reflect the realities of today’s business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protégé or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America's most successful mentors and protégés, Power Mentoring unlocks the secrets of great mentoring relationships and shows how anyone (including those who are well established in their careers, or those who are just starting out) can become a successful mentor or protégé. Based on compelling interviews from Ellen Ensher and Susan Murphy’s own research, this important resource explains what it takes to develop a “power mentoring” network consisting of a variety of mentors across a range of organizations and industries. The authors provide strategies for establishing such power mentoring relationships, outline the best practices, and offer insights from mentors and protégés in a variety of fields including technology, politics, and the media.
1 Introduction to Power Mentoring 1 Who Are Our Power Mentors and Protégés? 3 The Changing Career Landscape 13 Overview of the Book 21 2 The Many Faces of Power Mentoring 26 Classic Versus Contemporary Approaches to Mentoring 28 The Many Types of Power Mentoring 45 Conclusion 64 3 Mentoring as a Two-Way Street: 67 Benefits of Giving and Receiving Give-and-Take in Power Mentoring Relationships 68 Road Map to This Chapter 70 Meet the Power Mentors and Protégés: 71 Stories of Give-and-Take Summary of Benefits for Protégés and Mentors 96 Conclusion 100 4 The Mind of the Mentor 102 Mental Models: The Philosophies of Mentoring 105 The Mentor’s Attraction to the Protégé 116 The Perfect Protégé 121 Tests and Challenges 125 Conclusion 136 5 The Protégé’s Perspective: 138 How to Get and Keep a Power Mentor Initiation and Attraction 140 Developing Trust in the Mentoring Relationship 142 Identifying a Power Mentor 152 Cultivating the Art of Impression Management 155 Developing a Goal-Oriented Attitude 157 Forming Connection Strategies 161 Conclusion 173 6 Unlocking the Secrets of 175 Great Power Mentoring Relationships Building Blocks of Effective Relationships 177 Defining Moments 190 Deepening the Mentoring Relationship 196 Conclusion 208 7 Power Mentoring and You 209 The Relationship Development Plan 210 Conclusion 253 8 Conclusion: What We Have Learned About Mentoring in Today’s Work Environment 255 Turning Everyday Mentoring into Power Mentoring 256 What We Know About Effective Mentoring Relationships 256 What We Are Still Learning About Mentoring Relationships 260 The Lessons of Power Mentoring for Formal Mentoring Programs 262 Getting a Formal Mentoring Program Off the Ground 268 Conclusion 271 Appendix A: The Interviewees 273 Appendix B: Studying Power Mentoring Relationships 303 Notes 313 Acknowledgments 333 The Authors 339 Index 343
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
