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Managers as Mentors

Name: Managers as Mentors
Author: Chip R. Bell
ISBN: 9781881052920

by Chip R. Bell

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Managers as Mentors redefines the meaning of mentoring to fit today's business realities. In a world where overnight obsolescence threatens skills and knowledge, and new forms of leadership are replacing the old boss-subordinate relationship, success calls for creative ways to foster learning, improvement, and everlasting experimentation. Managers as Mentors is about the power-free facilitation of learning, about teaching through consultation and affection rather than constriction and assessment. This book shows leaders everywhere how to forge a partnership with learners to help them develop new competence and confidence. Working as partners, mentors and proteges can use Chip Bell's provocative insights and powerful practical techniques to continually reach new levels of mastery.

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Mary Whaley

Bell develops a vision of mentoring for the new role of a boss in today's flattened, restructured organization. The old model of an authoritarian leader is being replaced by one who is a supporter, an enabler, and even a partner. The author sees mentoring for the new breed of leader as a one-on-one effort grounded in a partnership philosophy with the objective of adding a skill, competence, or understanding; but he does not include the special requirements of dealing with poor performers or mentoring in diversity situations. His mentoring process is an unfolding, changing effort, a learning experience for both the protegeand the mentor, a dual growth exercise. We learn the author's recipe for mentoring, which includes surrendering, accepting, giving, and extending. The book offers tips for ensuring productive mentoring by taking risks, developing listening skills, giving effective advice and feedback, and using thoughtful questions to fuel curiosity and cultivate wisdom.

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