The Mentor’s Guide

The Mentor’s Guide

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The Mentor’s Guide

In the newly revised Third Edition of The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships, veteran mentoring experts Lois J.  Zachary and Lisa Z. Fain deliver a thoughtful and rich exploration of the critical process of mentoring. The book offers practical tools for facilitating the mentoring experience from beginning to end. 

In addition to walking you through the four phases of mentoring―preparing, negotiating enabling growth, and coming to closure―this important book provides: 

  • Brand-new content on diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well as tools to enhance virtual mentoring relationships 
  • The ethics of mentoring, including how to handle common ethical pitfalls and mistakes 
  • Hands-on worksheets and exercises to facilitate the mentoring and learning process 

Perfect for leaders, managers, and educators in any career or professional setting, The Mentor’s Guide is an indispensable tool to help navigate your learning and mentoring journey. 

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TOP 10 REASONS TO BUY THE 3RD EDITION OF
THE MENTOR’S GUIDE BY LOIS J. ZACHARY AND LISA Z. FAIN

The 3rd Edition of the best-selling and essential reference for mentors, “The Mentor’s Guide,” provides new and experienced mentors with essential tools and practical guidance to create, build and sustain mentoring relationships that yield results and satisfaction. This new edition contains updates on virtual communication, creating inclusive relationships, building trust, ethics in mentoring, intentional DEI initiatives, and more. Read about the full list of updates on our blog.

Meet the Authors

Dr. Lois J. Zachary

Lois Zachary is an internationally recognized expert on mentoring and has been cited as, “one of the top 100 minds in leadership” today. You’ve likely seen mention of Dr. Zachary’s books, or read her quotes in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Inc. magazine, T&D, Leadership Excellence, The Chronicle of Higher Education, or other business and leadership news outlets.

Lisa Z. Fain

Lisa Fain is the CEO of Center for Mentoring Excellence. Her passion for diversity and inclusion work is fueled by her strong conviction that leveraging differences creates a better workplace and drives better business results.

Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring

Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring

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Bridging Differences for Better Mentoring

Lean Forward, Learn, Leverage. This comprehensive guide to helping mentors and mentees bridge gaps between and among cultures—a growing issue in today’s diverse workplace—is coauthored by the founder and CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence.

As the workplace has become more diverse, mentoring has become more challenging. Mentors and mentees may come from very different backgrounds and have limited understanding of each other’s cultures and outlooks. But mentoring remains the most powerful tool for creating meaningful relationships, furthering professional development, and increasing engagement and retention. Younger workers and emerging leaders, in particular, are demanding it.

Lisa Z. Fain and Lois J. Zachary offer a timely, evidence-based, practical guide for helping mentors develop the level of cultural competency needed to bridge differences. Firmly rooted in Zachary’s well-known four-part mentoring model, the book uses three fictional scenarios featuring three pairs of diverse mentors and mentees to illustrate how key concepts can play out in real life. It offers an array of accessible tools and strategies designed to help you increase your self-awareness and prepare you to embrace and leverage differences in your mentoring relationships. But beyond tips and techniques, Fain and Zachary emphasize that authenticity is the key—the ultimate purpose of this book is to help the mentor and mentee make a genuine connection and learn from each other. That’s when the magic really happens.

“This book exposes one of mentoring’s biggest blind spots—mentors and mentees who assume similarity rather than difference—and provides insightful and practical advice for how to mentor and be mentored across all forms of diversity. A vital addition to the diversity and inclusion and mentoring field.” — Andrés T. Tapia, Senior Client Partner and Global Diversity and Inclusion Strategist, Korn Ferry, and author of The Inclusion Paradox

“Successful mentoring relationships must be authentic and inclusive. This practical hands-on guide to better mentoring by mentoring experts Fain and Zachary is not to be missed by anyone who wants to learn how to build deeper and more meaningful bridges across, under, and through difference.” — Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach for ten years and New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

“Fain and Zachary, luminaries in the mentoring field, deliver the definitive applied toolbox for genuinely inclusive mentorship. Any leader committed to recruiting, retaining, and promoting diverse talent should personally hand a copy to every mentor and mentee in the organization.”— W. Brad Johnson, PhD, Professor of Psychology, US Naval Academy, and Faculty Associate, Johns Hopkins University

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Meet the Authors

Lisa Z. Fain, CEO

Lisa Fain is the CEO of Center for Mentoring Excellence, and founder of Vista Coaching, the coaching division of the Center. Her passion for diversity and inclusion work is fueled by her strong conviction that leveraging differences creates a better workplace and drives better business results.

Dr. Lois J. Zachary, Founder

Lois Zachary is an internationally recognized expert on mentoring and has been cited as, “one of the top 100 minds in leadership” today. You’ve likely seen mention of Dr. Zachary’s books, or read her quotes, in The New York Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Inc. magazine, T&D, Leadership Excellence, The Chronicle of Higher Education, or other business and leadership news outlets.

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The Mentee’s Guide: Making Mentoring Work for You

The Mentee’s Guide: Making Mentoring Work for You

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The Mentee’s Guide to Making Mentoring Work for You

This volume offers a companion guide to the best-selling book The Mentor’s Guide.

This practical book offers ideas and suggestions for making the most of a mentoring opportunity for the person being mentored. The authors take the reader through the four phases of the mentoring process and offer advice on how to get the relationship started, establish agreements, sustain the relationship and bring it to closure. This is a valuable resource for any mentee whether in the nonprofit, corporate, or government sector.

 

“The Mentee’s Guide inspires and guides the potential mentee, provides new insights for the adventure in learning that lies ahead, and underscores my personal belief and experience that mentoring is circular. The mentor gains as much as the mentee in this evocative relationship. Lois Zachary’s new book is a great gift.” —Frances Hesselbein, chairman and founding president, Leader to Leader Institute

“Whether you are the mentee or mentor, born or made for the role, you will gain much more from the relationship by practicing the fun and easy A-to-Z principles of The Mentee’s Guide by the master of excellence, Lois Zachary.” —Ken Shelton, editor, Leadership Excellence

“With this deeply practical book filled with stories and useful exercises, Lois Zachary completes her groundbreaking trilogy on mentoring. Must-reading for those in search of a richer understanding of this deeply human relationship as well as anyone seeking a mentor, whether for new skills, job advancement, or deeper wisdom.”— Laurent A. Parks Daloz, senior fellow, the Whidbey Institute, and author, Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners

Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization’s Guide

Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization’s Guide

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Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization’s Guide

In order to succeed in today’s competitive environment, corporate and nonprofit institutions must create a workplace climate that encourages employees to continue to learn and grow. From the author of the best-selling The Mentor’s Guide comes the next-step mentoring resource to ensure personnel at all levels of an organization will teach and learn from each other. Written for anyone who wants to embed mentoring within their organization, Creating a Mentoring Culture is filled with step-by-step guidance, practical advice, engaging stories, and includes a wealth of reproducible forms and tools.

“This is a must-read for anyone seeking a rich understanding of how the spirit of mentoring can be truly integrated into an organization. I know of nothing like this book on the market. Zachary has scored another first!” -Laurent A. Parks Daloz, associate director and faculty of the Whidbey Institute

“Successful, sustainable leadership cultures are grounded in a strong, thriving culture of mentoring. This book provides leaders and organizations the tools and inspiration to achieve just that.” -Pernille Lopez, president, IKEA North America

“One-stop shopping from A to Z if you want to launch or scale up a mentoring initiative. . . .This guidebook shows how different kinds of mentoring work together for individual development and organizational change. Wisdom and experience are embedded in a wealth of guidelines, checklists, and other tools to walk you through everything you need to know and do to be organizationally successful. Zachary becomes your ‘virtual’ consultant for scaffolding an effective organizational mentoring culture, infrastructure, and practice.” -Victoria J. Marsick, professor, adult education and organizational learning, and codirector, J.M. Huber Institute for Learning in Organizations

“Even mentors need mentoring. Mentoring supports employees in realizing the need for and meeting the challenge of being more productive as a result of successfully balancing work and family life. Zachary offers a much-needed just-in-time resource for helping HRD directors, CEOs, and organizational leaders expand and enhance the possibilities for elevating mentoring within their organizations.” -Susan Ginsberg, editor and publisher, Work & Family Life newsletter, and author, Family Wisdom

The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships, 2nd Edition

The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships, 2nd Edition

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The Mentor’s Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships, 2nd Edition

Thoughtful and rich with advice, The Mentor’s Guide explores the critical process of mentoring and presents practical tools for facilitating the experience from beginning to end.