10 Steps to Successful Mentoring

by Wendy Axelrod

Reach New Heights as a Mentor

Broaden people’s perspectives. Sustain momentum for development. Drive significant career growth. It doesn’t take a workplace superhero to accomplish all of this. You can do it―when you become a masterful mentor.

While mentoring resources typically center on the mentee or the program, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is devoted explicitly to helping you excel in the role of mentor. In this book, Wendy Axelrod helps you stretch your mentoring abilities to yield substantial rewards for you and your mentee. Drawing on more than 20 years of work with mentors, she delves into proven approaches to use in your ongoing meetings, such as elevating the power of questions, leveraging experience for learning, and expanding growth using everyday psychology. Come away inspired to take on a fresh challenge.

Whether mentoring is a calling or a choice, you’re new to it or a seasoned veteran, or you’re in a formal program or on your own, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is the resource you’ll return to again and again. It’s filled with real-life examples and 40 tools to help you master the nuances that drive deliberate development. Woven throughout are Wendy’s seven guiding principles that distinguish the most successful mentors ( “Start where your mentee is, not where you think they should be”).

Become the best possible mentor, and deliver memorable experiences to your mentees and create a lasting legacy for yourself.

Genres: Business, Leadership

224 pages, Paperback

Published June 25, 2019

Reviews

[Tara Brabazon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Strong mentoring methodologies are offered in this book. There is attention to the relationship between the mentor and mentee - when it works and when it does not work. The weakness in the book - that we see so often in the populist end of business titles - is the invention of fictional people to demonstrate or perform the argument. Real life is saturating with its case studies. In our current tough times, it is important to use real examples. It is methodologically more rigorous and epistemologically honest.

This book however provides an effective structure for the development of a mentoring programme. It is well written and carefully structured.

[Łukasz Słonina · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was my first book about mentoring. I consider this to be great source of knowledge does not matter if you're thinking about mentoring somebody or already have some experience. Lots of practical questions, example cases. The book would lead you from preparing for mentor role to wrapping up mentoring program.

[Bianca · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great guide for kicking-off a mentoring project. I learned a lot of tips and tricks through the models and examples.
The book focuses on rather official and formal mentoring roles and the models format is a bit odd in the e-book, but still it will remain a reference work for me when I need advice in any mentoring step.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is a great and practical resource for building up mentors and helping them to be successful. I marked several sections that I plan to implement into my own practice and see myself returning to this book as a type of reference material many times in the future.

[Joy Krahnke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book explaining business mentorship