Managers as Mentors
Mentoring in today’s business community requires that leaders act more like partners toward coworkers. Bell provides techniques to help leaders avoid the hazards of hierarchy and focus on forming relationships with coworkers in which everyone learns from the interaction. An international best-seller
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A good manager makes you want to do a better job, a great manager makes you want to be a better person. This book will help you become the mentor you always wanted and honor the terrific ones you had.
−Mark Goulston, author of #1 international best-selling book, Just Listen and co-author of Real Influence
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The book managers everywhere have been waiting for: a clear and practical guide to tapping talent in their organizations. If you ever wondered what management in ‘learning organizations’ are supposed to be doing, here’s your answer.
−Nancy K. Austin, co-author (with Tom Peters) A Passion for Excellence
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I can’t imagine any two people on this planet better equipped to take on this subject than Marshall and Chip. For those seeking advice in building successful mentoring partnerships, this is your book.
−Gordon Peters Founding Chairman & CEO Institute for Management Studies
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In the movies (and books), rarely is the remake as good as the original. That is not the case here! Take an important topic, two brilliant and respected practitioners and what you get is this book. I read the first edition and loved it. Now, this revised third edition with illuminating additions is better than ever. If you want to help individuals (and your organization) reach anything close to its potential, read and apply this book. Start with yourself, and then share it widely. Thanks Chip and Marshall for valuable addition to the learning leaders’ library.
−Kevin Eikenberry, author Remarkable Leadership: Unleashing your Remarkable Potential One Skill at a Time
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"Managers as Mentors" provides the framework for developing emerging mentors and passing on the torch of leadership from person to person, one relationship at a time.
−Marianna Grachek, President and CEO American College of Health Care Administrators
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"Managers as Mentors" doesn’t miss a beat and only gets better with time. This third edition, structured around the SAGE model, is sage in the wisdom, experience and stories it imparts to new and experienced mentors alike.
−Dr. Lois J. Zachary, author The Mentor’s Guide, The Mentee’s Guide, and Creating a Mentoring Culture
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The single most important action you can take to advance your career is to partner with a great mentor. Imagine how far you could go with two great mentors? In "Managers as Mentors," renowned leadership experts Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith serve as sage mentors as you learn how to be a great one yourself.
−Bill Treasurer, author Leaders Open Doors and Courage Goes to Work
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The concept of this book’s brilliance is that every leader must become a mentor to his or her employees. Buy the book and find out how.
−Jeffrey Gitomer, author NY Times best-selling books The Little Gold Book of YES! Attitude and The Little Red Book of Selling
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As Captain of the ‘best damn ship in the U.S. Navy,’ I learned that the high performance sailors typically had effective mentors. Wish I’d had this book then! I’d have given a copy to all my leaders.
−Mike Abrashoff, Author NY Times best-selling book It’s Your Ship
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“Managers as Mentors" outlines simple, easy-to-follow steps so that the mentoring role becomes comfortable and doable—even for the busiest managers. −Dr. Beverly Kaye, co-author Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go
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Companies today tell their managers “you need to mentor.” Often left hanging is the question of how. Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith fill in the blanks by offering a user-friendly handbook that shows busy managers how to effectively mentor their people. Essential and full of practical wisdom. −Sally Helgesen, author The Female Advantage, The Web of Inclusion, and The Female Vision
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"Managers as Mentors" is the must-read for leaders who value innovation, growth and progress—all treasured byproducts of those learning organizations where leaders mine talent. −Vijay Govindarajan, author NY Times best-selling Reverse Innovation and Professor of International Business, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University
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"Managers as Mentors" will be the indispensable handbook of managers/leaders across the sectors. −Frances Hesselbein, President and CEO The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute Former CEO of the Girls Scouts of the USA
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Mentoring is the highest of the teaching arts, and in this new edition of "Managers as Mentors" Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith have skillfully crafted the essential handbook for all those who are trusted advisors to aspiring leaders.
−Jim Kouzes, coauthor The Leadership Challenge and Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University
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Continual learning is a key to effective leadership because no one can know everything there is to know. "Managers as Mentors" is a practical yet powerful book for helping leaders make continual learning a valuable addition to their strategy.
−Mike Krzyzewski, Head Coach, Duke University Men’s Basketball 2010 NCAA Champions
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The CEO as Mentor
“In times of massive change,” wrote philosopher Eric Hoffer, “The learner will inherit the earth while the learned will remain beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” Winning organizations are realizing that their ability to learn faster than their adversaries is their only sustainable advantage.
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Cracking the Mentoring Code
Four challenges mentors must reckon with if they are to move from a “block-checking” activity to a growth-producing result.
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Managers As Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning
What stands out in this book is the use of storytelling to further develop the scenarios that help readers apply and identify with mentoring techniques that thoroughly define and add value to the mentoring relationship.
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‘Managers as Mentors’ Celebrates Publication Anniversary
With more than 150,000 copies sold, “Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning,” Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith’s classic guide to successfully combining these two interrelated roles has proven to be deeply influential among professionals in virtually every industry and leadership role.
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Managers as Mentors & Interview with @ChipRBell
I am super excited that I had the opportunity to interview Chip (who is one of my favorite authors), about the revised and updated, “Managers as Mentors.” It is co-authored by best-selling author, Marshall Goldsmith.
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If You Aren't Mentoring, You Aren't Leading
Chip Bell is one of America’s top consultants, trainers, and speakers on customer service and leadership. In this interview, I ask Chip to describe how and why leaders should make mentoring a core competency.
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Illumine Your Employees
With the half-life on knowledge getting shorter (the time line between when one acquires a skill and when that skill becomes obsolete), leaders must continually teach, mentor and enlighten their employees. But, the objective is not just instructing; the goal is also the magic of inspiration. - See more at: http://www.careersingovernment.com/tools/gov-talk/about-gov/education/illumine-employees/#sthash.XtI7PLWu.dpuf
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Chip Bell Shares Four Global Secret Desires of Employees for International Workers’ Day
Renowned service expert Chip Bell says there are many great resources for mentoring but four secrets every protégé wishes their mentors knew.
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The Pursuit of Significance in Mentoring
Mentoring is not about the transmission of expertise or the conveyance of knowledge; it is about the fostering of insight—the light that goes on inside the mind of the protégé.
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BOOK REVIEW MANAGERS AS MENTORS BY CHIP BELL
Managers as Mentors marries the heart with the head and hand very effectively. In other words, it uncovers the internal motivations of mentors (the heart) while offering credible (head) suggestions to put into place right now (hand).
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Mentoring: The Art of Panning for Insight
Mentors practice their skills with a combination of never-ending compassion, crystal-clear communication, and a sincere joy in the role of being a helper along a journey toward mastery.
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Mentor Your Employees
Mentoring your employees is not easy.[...] How does a supervisor or manager encourage a subordinate to experiment, make mistakes, and try new awkward behaviors—all important to learning—from a position of “Oh, by the way, I’ll be doing your performance review”?
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Webinar: Building Partnerships for Learning with Marshall Goldsmith and Chip Bell
Join Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith, to learn why effective leaders are focusing on creativity, rather than control, and how mentoring associates can result in future personal and corporate success.
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Innovation Starts with Mentoring
Chip Bell, author of “Managers as Mentors : Building Partnerships for Learning“joined us to share how mentoring within your organization can stimulate innovation and growth, , how to effectively mentor young workers, and how to be a confident leader and coach to those you are mentoring.
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2013 Best Summer Reads
Managers as Mentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. by Chip Bell and Marshall Goldsmith. Bell’s book on how leaders must take charge of their people’s development is a great read.
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Great Leaders Learn Out Loud
The world’s most innovative companies are led by leaders with one characteristic in common—they are as zealous about learning as they are about their breakthroughs and discoveries.
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Great Leaders: They're Ray Bell Mentors
