Suggests ways to sustain learning in people at the top of an organization, incorporating practical and research-based aspects. The topics include dealing with a rapid frequency of significant transitions; enabling, supporting, and triggering major change; how executives find and use mentors both on their upward climb and at their lofty peaks; and how executives become mentors. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Mentoring is one of the fastest growing forms of management development and the strongest growth area in mentoring is at director level. Very little is known about the nature of these relationships and the shutters on director mentoring are opened through a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors.
'Mentoring Executives and Directors' is a lively, informative read including company and individual cases across a wide spectrum of sector and company size.
It will be of considerable interest to Human Resource professionals and academics, headhunters and management consultants as well as senior managers, executives and directors, and their mentors.
The only book on mentoring for directors and senior executives
Explains how to sustain learning in people at the top
Practical and research based
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