Power Mentoring E-Book

Ellen A. Ensher

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 584

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

Written to reflect the realities of today's business environment, Power Mentoring is a nuts-and-bolts guide for anyone who wants to create a connection with a protégé or mentor, or to improve a current mentoring relationship. Filled with illustrative examples and candid insights from fifty of America's most successful mentors and protégés, Power Mentoring unlocks the secrets of great mentoring relationships and shows how anyone (including those who are well established in their careers, or those who are just starting out) can become a successful mentor or protégé. Based on compelling interviews from Ellen Ensher and Susan Murphy's own research, this important resource explains what it takes to develop a "power mentoring" network consisting of a variety of mentors across a range of organizations and industries. The authors provide strategies for establishing such power mentoring relationships, outline the best practices, and offer insights from mentors and protégés in a variety of fields including technology, politics, and the media.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

CHAPTER ONE - INTRODUCTION TO POWER MENTORING

WHO ARE OUR POWER MENTORS AND PROTÉGÉS?

THE CHANGING CAREER LANDSCAPE

OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK

CHAPTER TWO - THE MANY FACES OF POWER MENTORING

CLASSIC VERSUS CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO MENTORING

THE MANY TYPES OF POWER MENTORING

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER THREE - MENTORING AS A TWO-WAY STREET Benefits of Giving and Receiving

GIVE-AND-TAKE IN POWER MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS

ROAD MAP TO THIS CHAPTER

MEET THE POWER MENTORS AND PROTÉGÉS: STORIES OF GIVE-AND-TAKE

SUMMARY OF BENEFITS FOR PROTÉGÉS AND MENTORS

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER FOUR - THE MIND OF THE MENTOR

MENTAL MODELS: THE PHILOSOPHIES OF MENTORING

THE MENTOR’S ATTRACTION TO THE PROTÉGÉ

THE PERFECT PROTÉGÉ

TESTS AND CHALLENGES

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER FIVE - THE PROTÉGÉ’S PERSPECTIVE

INITIATION AND ATTRACTION

DEVELOPING TRUST IN THE MENTORING RELATIONSHIP

IDENTIFYING A POWER MENTOR

CULTIVATING THE ART OF IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT

DEVELOPING A GOAL-ORIENTED ATTITUDE

FORMING CONNECTION STRATEGIES

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER SIX - UNLOCKING THE SECRETS OF GREAT POWER MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS

BUILDING BLOCKS OF EFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS

DEFINING MOMENTS

DEEPENING THE MENTORING RELATIONSHIP

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER SEVEN - POWER MENTORING AND YOU

THE RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN

CONCLUSION

CHAPTER EIGHT - CONCLUSION

TURNING EVERYDAY MENTORING INTO POWER MENTORING

WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT EFFECTIVE MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS

WHAT WE ARE STILL LEARNING ABOUT MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS

THE LESSONS OF POWER MENTORING FOR FORMAL MENTORING PROGRAMS

GETTING A FORMAL MENTORING PROGRAM OFF THE GROUND

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX A - THE INTERVIEWEES

APPENDIX B - STUDYING POWER MENTORING RELATIONSHIPS

NOTES

Acknowledgments

THE AUTHORS

INDEX

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ensher, Ellen A.

Power mentoring : how successful mentors and protégés get the most out of their relationships / by Ellen A. Ensher, Susan Elaine Murphy. p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-7952-2 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-7879-7952-X (alk. paper)

1. Mentoring in business. 2. Career development. I. Murphy, Susan E. II. Title.

HF5385.E57 2005

658.3’124—dc22

2005015654

For Mom and Dad, who gave me a love of books. For Sean, who is my best promoter, and especially for our Mark—may you have many wise mentors to help you along your journey.

Ellen

For my mother and father, and my husband, Copil.

Susan

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION TO POWER MENTORING

And when the event, the big thing in your life, is simply an insight—isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: Isn’t that amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you’ve experienced before?

—JONATHAN FRANZEN, THE CORRECTIONS

As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? Maybe it did not work out that you would be a movie star or an Olympic athlete, but have you found the level of joy in your work that you had hoped for? When you chose your major in college and then later changed it, or perhaps recently made a job or career switch, why did you do it? Maybe it was because you suddenly had the Great Career Insight—I will spend the majority of my waking hours for the rest of my life at work, so if I am not as happy at work as I want to be now, then I am wasting my life! We spend more time working than doing anything else we do in our lives. Those of us in the United States have the dubious distinction of working more hours and taking less vacation time per year than our counterparts in nearly any other industrialized nation.1 Nearly 40 percent of U.S. workers spend at least 50 hours on the job per week, and that number is even higher for the professional class.2

Why do we work so much? Maybe because in the United States we see work as central to who we are as individuals. An Associated Press survey showed that 91 percent of respondents said their jobs were important to their overall satisfaction in life.3 Given that we spend many hours at work, how we view it is important. Work can be a joy or drudgery, and an overwhelming amount of research conclusively shows that this often depends on our relationships with other people at work. Power Mentoring is about helping you gain more fulfillment at work by showing you how to actively develop and improve your relationships with others there, and in doing so gain all of the career outcomes that you have always imagined.

Consider the following situation: What would you do if you found out that your colleagues were corrupt and stealing money from one of Southern California’s poorest cities? Imagine you were a young public servant and felt as though you had no one to trust or turn to about this crisis. This is the situation that Araceli Gonzalez, former council member for the city of Cudahey, found herself in a few short years ago. She had no one to turn to, except, that is, for her mentor, Rosario Marin (41st U.S. Treasurer). What would you do if you were the mentor in this situation? Rosario Marin told Araceli to “do the right thing” and turn in her colleagues. Araceli did so and found that “everyone turned against her, except Rosario.” Marin stood by her young protégé and helped her get back on her feet politically and career-wise. Gonzalez has gone on to become a successful small business owner and received national recognition as an up-and-coming leader.

In this book, we share many stories like this and insights from interviews with 50 of America’s most successful mentors and protégés in leading industries. We reveal secrets from academia and present our own research that demonstrates how having a network of good mentoring relationships can make your work environment, your job, and your career better.

Power Mentoring is for professionals and managers who want to make the most of their careers. We have written this book for those of you who want to obtain a protégé or mentor, or who simply want to improve a current mentoring relationship. The book can also help you regardless of whether you are well established in your career or are just starting out. You might be a manager, a technical specialist, or even an entrepreneur. Our intention is that Power Mentoring will be helpful to people at all stages of their careers and in many types of positions. It is also for administrators of mentoring programs and anyone who teaches or conducts training about mentoring.

Regardless of whether you are thinking about finding a mentor, becoming a mentor, or extending your vast experience with mentoring, there is always much to learn. Some of our interviews provide examples of traditional mentoring relationships, in which an older, more experienced mentor takes a younger protégé under his or her wing and guides the protégé through career twists and turns. We found, however, that most of our interviewees did not rely on a single traditional mentor for support, but instead had a broad network consisting of a variety of mentors to support them. We call this network approach to mentoring We found that all those involved in power mentoring, both as mentors and as protégés, received mutually beneficial outcomes related to their personal career growth and development. In this book you’ll learn more about the various forms of power mentoring, how it differs from traditional mentoring, and the benefits associated with these relationships.