Product reviews for Mastering Mentoring and Coaching with Emotional Intelligence

This book is practical in stance and loosely organized - largely a compendium of tips, it's orientation towards the world of business is not extreme and should not reduce its potential usefulness to language teacher trainers. The body of the book breaks down as follows: In Chapter 1, mentoring and coaching are compared . . Chapter 2, “Organizing the mentoring and coaching processes”, offers, for instance, seven key steps in mentoring: “(a) Choosing a protege, (b) connecting, (c) outlining the relationship, (d) getting to the bottom of it, (e) concrete actions, (f) following up, and (g) get out of the way , . Chapter 3, “Taking stock and moving ahead”, includes advice about managing expectations. Chapters 4 and 5 are, respectively, on short- and long-term mentoring skills. After the rather insubstantial conclusion (2pp.) comes a 41 page -˜Treasure chest', a diverse presentation of constructs and procedures (e.g., framing skills and meta-SWOT analysis) and other tidbits for the trainer. This appendix is billed (p. 173) as “just a glimpse of additional information we will be presenting on the website in future” (www.jobEQ.com/mentor). Among many other things, it includes interesting speculations about the etymology of coach including the thought that it is related to coax and cox (of a rowing team).