The Complete Guide to Mentoring: How to Design, Implement and Evaluate Effective Mentoring Programmes

Mentoring can be a powerful tool in the development of talent within any organization. Experienced colleagues can help build the skills, competencies and confidence of staff, who will go onto to contribute to and drive the success of an organization. In this book, Hilarie Owen explains the skills a mentor needs and how managers can be sure it is having a positive impact.

The Complete Guide to Mentoring provides a road map for implementing mentoring programs in an organization. Providing practical guidance on every aspect of the design, implementation and assessment of a mentoring program, it includes a wealth of practical advice and resources including checklists and template forms, which can be downloaded from the publisher's website and used as handouts for both the mentor and mentee.

This valuable resource provides a step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to create and run mentoring schemes with confidence and success.

Hilarie Owen has been a successful director, author, business strategist, founder and Chief Executive of the Institute of Leadership. She was appointed by the government to oversee leadership throughout the police service in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and has worked for a variety of global companies in the US, Europe and Middle East. She then turned a large international publishing company around increasing its turnover by 600% within a year. She went on to run her own business for 12 years working with boards of directors that included mentoring businesswomen. Her six books on leadership have sold globally. Titles include Creating Top Flight Teams, In Search of Leaders, Unleashing Leaders, Grow Your Personal Capital, The Leadership Manual, and Creating Leaders in the Classroom.