Mentoring executives and directors / David Clutterbuck and David Megginson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clutterbuck, David.

Contributor:

Megginson, David, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentoring in business.

Executives--Training of.

Executives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (176 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Mentoring is one of the fastest growing forms of management development and the strongest growth area in mentoring is at director level. Very little is known about the nature of these relationships and the shutters on director mentoring are opened through a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors. 'Mentoring Executives and Directors' is a lively, informative read including company and individual cases across a wide spectrum of sector and company size.It will be of considerable interest to Human Resource prof

Contents:

Mentoring Executives and Directors; Copyright; Contents; Part 1 Every executive needs a mentor; Why this book?; Development is different; Curtain raisers for mentoring; Lonely at the top; Personal reflective space; Why the rise of interest in executive mentoring?; Formal versus informal mentoring; What do executive mentors do?; Three common roles; How reflective mentors approach the task; Mentoring and emotional intelligence; A model of executive mentoring processes; What do mentors and mentees discuss?; What makes an effective executive mentee?; How to read this book; Part 2 Case studies

IntroductionA1 Mentoring for business creation and development; A2 The accompagnateur - a conversation with a French mentor; A3 The well supervised professional mentor; A4 Richard D. Field, OBE: a company chairman and a principled mentor; A5 Carl Eric Gestberg, ABB, Sweden - thorough processes support an internal scheme; A6 Sir John Harvey-Jones: the self-made top executive passionate to help others; A7 Creating a mentoring culture in Lex; A8 Colin Palmer mentors Nigel Harrison: two accounts of an experienced director mentoring small business leaders

A8a Colin Palmer, Chairman of Business Intelligence and of the IMPACT programme mentors Nigel Harrison, Managing Director, ACTA8b Nigel Harrison, Managing Director, ACT, interviewed; A9 Mike Pupius, Royal Mail: a quality mentor; A10 Peer mentoring among managers in the Netherlands; A11 Trude Stolpe, Personnel Director, Axel Johnsson, Sweden; A12 Allen Yurko, CEO, Siebe - an American story; A13 Kees Zandvliet, HRM Director, Heineken, Netherlands: a functional director is professionally mentored; B1 Julia Essex, mentored by Ian Flemming: one mentor - several organizations

B1a Julia Essex, Director of Commissioning, East Hertfordshire Health ServiceB1b Ian Flemming, Julia's mentor, is a partner in Ian Flemming Associates; B2 Michael Fowle, KPMG - voluntary cross-sector mentoring of headteachers; B3 Dame Rennie Fritchie: a top manager role model; B4 Trish Longden, District Audit: professional career mentoring; B5 Philip Lewer, City of Bradford Social Services: mentoring with heart; B6 Dan Sequerra, Executive Director, Kirklees Metropolitan Council: a mentoring champion; B7 David Wilson, Director of Finance, NHS Trust: a personal account

C1 Sir Christopher Ball, Chancellor of Derby University, Chairman, Campaign for LearningC2 Dorothy Newton, RIBA: a voluntary sector director; Part 3 The lessons for executive and director mentoring; The issues; Endnote; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-37820-0

1-281-02163-6

9786611021634

0-08-051142-2

9780080511429

OCLC:

476072711