The Situational Mentor

Auteur

David Clutterbuck is author of nearly 50 books on management development and is widely regarded as the guru on the topics of coaching and mentoring. He has more than 30 years experience in the mentoring field, and has helped hundreds of companies design, implement and sustain successful mentoring programmes. David is Senior Partner at Clutterbuck Associates, the world's leading provider of mentoring scheme support, research and best practice. Gill Lane has worked as a coach, mentor and trainer for more than 30 years, which included 18 years in the NHS and 9 years in a full-time academic role at Henley Management College. In 1986 Gill set up her own coaching and development consultancy, from which Gill Lane Associates was later formed, specializing in the coaching, mentoring and training of senior executives, managers and professionals on a one-to-one, team and group basis.

Texte du rabat

Because the mentoring process involves a number of distinct stages, a wide range of skills are needed throughout the process and these skills are situational. In other words, a skilled mentor understands the principles of mentoring but is also able to use appropriate skills according to the person with whom they are working and the stage they have

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List of contributors

Foreword: the making of a mentor by Kathy E Kram

Introduction

1. Key themes: a literature review Gill Lane

2. The moral dimension of mentoring Stephen Gibb

3. Characteristics ascribed to mentors by their protégés Ann Darwin

4. Mentor competences: a field perspective David Clutterbuck

5. A quantitative view of mentor competence Gill Lane

6. What about mentee competences? David Clutterbuck

7. Competences of building the developmental relationship Terri A Scandura and Ekin K Pellegrini

8. Development and supervision for mentors David Megginson and Paul Stokes

9. Insights from the psychology of executive and life coaching Anthony M Grant

10. Developmental relationships: a mentoring approach to
    organizational learning and knowledge creation Liz Borredon and Marc Ingham

11. The mentor as storyteller Margaret Parkin

12. Variation in mentoring outcomes: an effect of personality factors? Truls Engstrom

13. Virtual mentoring Professor Ellen Fagenson-Eland and Rachel Yan Lu

14. When mentoring goes wrong... Dr Bob Garvey

15. All good things must come to an end: winding up and winding down
    a mentoring relationship David Clutterbuck and David Megginson

16. What have we learned from this book?
    Gill Lane and David Clutterbuck

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Index

About the editors