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Product reviews for Mastering Mentoring and Coaching with Emotional Intelligence
Edge: Driving Leadership & Management Magazine
POSITIVE MENTOR ATTITUDE
This book is aimed at readers who want to develop and enrich their lives through improved communication, knowledge and skills. As the title suggests, the focus is on how best to use the mentoring process to achieve this enhanced state of learning -and it makes it clear that attitudes are fundamental to this self-improvement.
The authors set out to produce a book that offers more than an explanation and description of mentoring. Their challenge was to provided the reader with the tools to establish the emotional environment in which a mentoring relationship would flourish. They have achieved this, and their wealth of expertise and experience in the field of mentoring shines through.
The book covers short-term relationships between the mentor and "protege' as well as dealing with longer-term mentoring situations. The authors go into great depth, introducing some complex issues like meta-programmes, and exploring motivational issues and the behaviours that allow or obstruct the improvements in learning.
More familiar models like the 'Johari Window' are used to help develop the notion that self analysis and self awareness are key to becoming an effective mentor or protege. There is an interesting look at behavioural observation, and a useful self-assessment tool is provided for indicating what existing strengths the reader (and potential mentor) may already exhibit. This book certainly stands out from the crowd, largely because it offers practical help to anyone wanting to understand effective mentoring. It is a highly effective book that I would recommend to anyone involved in a mentoring relationship.
This book is aimed at readers who want to develop and enrich their lives through improved communication, knowledge and skills. As the title suggests, the focus is on how best to use the mentoring process to achieve this enhanced state of learning -and it makes it clear that attitudes are fundamental to this self-improvement.
The authors set out to produce a book that offers more than an explanation and description of mentoring. Their challenge was to provided the reader with the tools to establish the emotional environment in which a mentoring relationship would flourish. They have achieved this, and their wealth of expertise and experience in the field of mentoring shines through.
The book covers short-term relationships between the mentor and "protege' as well as dealing with longer-term mentoring situations. The authors go into great depth, introducing some complex issues like meta-programmes, and exploring motivational issues and the behaviours that allow or obstruct the improvements in learning.
More familiar models like the 'Johari Window' are used to help develop the notion that self analysis and self awareness are key to becoming an effective mentor or protege. There is an interesting look at behavioural observation, and a useful self-assessment tool is provided for indicating what existing strengths the reader (and potential mentor) may already exhibit. This book certainly stands out from the crowd, largely because it offers practical help to anyone wanting to understand effective mentoring. It is a highly effective book that I would recommend to anyone involved in a mentoring relationship.
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