Mentoring Executives and Directors

Mentoring is one of the fastest growing forms of management development and the strongest growth area in mentoring is at director level. Very little is known about the nature of these relationships and the shutters on director mentoring are opened through a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors. 'Mentoring Executives and Directors' is a lively, informative read including company and individual cases across a wide spectrum of sector and company size.It will be of considerable interest to Human Resource professionals and academics, headhunters and management consultants as well as senior managers, executives and directors, and their mentors.

Autorentext

David Clutterbuck, David Megginson

Inhalt

Every executive needs a mentor - Why this book? Development is different; Curtain raisers for mentoring; Lonely at the top; Personal reflective space; Why the rise of interest in executive mentoring? Formal versus informal mentoring; What do executive mentors do? Three common roles; How reflective mentors approach the task; Mentoring and emotional intelligence; A model of executive mentoring processes; What do mentors and mentees discuss? What makes an effective executive mentee? How to read this book; Case studies; The lessons for executive and director mentoring - The issues; Endnote; References; Index