Mentoring in Action: A Practical Guide for Managers

Mentoring in Action A Practical Guide 2nd edition David Megginson, David Clutterbuck, Bob Garvey, Paul Stokes & Ruth Garrett-Harris REAR COVER: "If you want to find out what mentoring is... then this book is the place to find out." Management Training Mentoring continues to be one of the fastest growing techniques in human resource management. It's viewed as being an essential building block of modern management development. Can one technique apply to pupils making a transfer from school to work and to the most senior executives? What is mentoring and why is it so popular? Now in its second edition, Mentoring in Action answers these questions plus many more and continues to examine a variety of mentoring schemes through a multitude of new, insightful case studies. Updated and restructured to provide a thorough overview of mentoring, the book includes: making a mentoring culture; frameworks for a mentoring episode; principles of scheme design; techniques in mentoring; the shape of a mentoring relationship; mentoring moments. Packed with examples, this innovative approach to a fascinating subject makes vital reading for managers, professionals, consultants, students, mentors and those they mentor. David Megginson is Professor of Human Resource Development at Sheffield Hallam University and co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC). David Clutterbuck is Visiting Professor of Mentoring and Coaching at SHU and also a co-founder of the EMCC and senior partner of Clutterbuck Associates. Bob Garvey is Principal Lecturer and leader of the Mentoring and Coaching Research Unit at Sheffield Hallam University. Paul Stokes also works at the Unit as a Senior Lecturer, and Ruth Garrett-Harris holds the position of Lecturer, Researcher and Consultant.Bob Garvey is the author of 'Mentoring in Action: A Practical Guide for Managers', published 2006 under ISBN 9780749444969 and ISBN 0749444967.