The one book you can take from your briefcase to your nightstand and back again!
New Mentoring Skills for Managers
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Quotes from Reviews: “The surprising premise of the book is that effective and involving (or participatory) managers and parents use virtually identical strategies. Some will find the parallel between management and parenting distasteful, thinking it involves treating employees like children. The approach is precisely the opposite: find out what good managers are doing, and replicate that with children. [T]he book is very easy to read, includes lots of fun stories, and is extremely sensible. Fun and worthwhile stuff! Bob Drago, Ph. D. “It’s the format that’s fresh and appealing to a generation of parents who use jargon such as conferencing, coaching and mentorship, and have one foot planted in the workplace and the other at home with kids.” Joanne Good “This reader-friendly guide teaches how to build respectful, collaborative relationships at work and at home…. Every family can benefit.” Metro Family Magazine “…an insightful and engaging guide for managers who strive to bring out the best in their employees and their children—not to mention managers whose employees are their children.” Barbara Spector “The book models four valuable strategies for mentoring employees and children, and can also be used successfully by teachers in the classroom.” reverBERations! “…offers strategies and self-help worksheets for dealing with difficult situations involving children and colleagues. Readers willing to take the time to access, and possibly change, their control styles will find helpful worksheets and journal pages for exploring the concept of mentoring.” Rena Fulka “Relationships and responsibility can be nurtured together.” Lisa Tedrick Prejean “…goes into considerable detail on mentoring skills, with a number of self-tests and long sections devoted to structuring, coaching, conferencing and ‘letting go…’” Harry Wessel “…new book on successful management skills…the same successful techniques can be used to manage employees and children.” Paula Burkes Erickson “Duo pens book showing great leaders are mentors in workplace…. Mielenz and Dowling have filled their book with worksheets to help people discover their managing style, anecdotes of how people have used some of these techniques and a straight narrative that spells out their mentoring model.” MaryBeth Matzek “…begins with two quizzes to help readers determine their control styles at work and at home.” L. A. Johnson “Mentor Manager, Mentor Parent recognizes that mentoring can be used at home and at work to help others not only work for you, but also work with you.” Corporate Newsletter “I especially liked the section on clarifying values, whether for a home or an organization, and stating related expectations. Clarity and clear expectations make any situation better.” Anne Thomasmeyer “…reveals perceptive parallels between managing and parenting for anyone who is a manager at work and has children at home.” The Ardmorite
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Abilene Reporter-News, Abilene, Texas Internet Review Links |