Mentoring Leaders: The Power of Storytelling for Building Leadership in Health Care and Education - Softcover

Ellie Gilfoyle; Ann Grady; Cathy Nielson; Wendy Coster

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156900319X ISBN 13: 9781569003190

Publisher: AOTA Press, 2011

Synopsis

Based on the Experiences of Clinicians, Educators, and Business Leaders

As the workplace becomes increasingly diverse and collaborative, many health care professions have recognized the importance of building a leadership culture through mentoring. Mentoring Leaders presents a unique guide to this fundamental topic by demonstrating how storytelling can powerfully inspire, motivate, and teach both mentors and mentees.

Going beyond the traditional one-to-one model of mentoring, this reader-friendly text provides in-depth discussion on various ways and forms mentoring can take place, including group and off-site mentoring. A workbook offers readers many stories reflecting the core concepts as well as questions for self-reflection.

Highlights and topics include leadership and communication, self-reflection, community building, building followership, and leading for the future.

Mentoring Leaders is an entertaining yet instructive guide for experienced and novice mentors and mentees who seek to become--and inspire--future leaders.

About this title

About the Author

Elnora "Ellie" Gilfoyle, DSc(Hon), FAOTA, has served the profession of occupational therapy and Colorado State University for more than 50 years. She served as president of the American Occupational Therapy Association and was awarded the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship. She is a consultant for leadership, mentoring, and organizational change.

Ann Grady, PhD, FAOTA, most recently taught leadership and interdisciplinary teamwork at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, consulted with the Colorado Department of Education on issues related to community inclusion, and directed the occupational therapy department at the The Children's Hospital in Denver. She has been president of the American Occupational Therapy Association and was awarded the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship.

Cathy Nielson, MPH, FAOTA, is professor emeritus, Division of Occupational Science in the Department of Allied Health Sciences, School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She was on the faculty of UNC for 23 years, serving as the director of the Division of Occupational Science until retirement in 2007. She is past vice-speaker of the AOTA Representative Assembly and a member of the Board of Directors.

Wendy Coster, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, has been a faculty member at Boston University College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences-Sargent College for more than 25 years and has been chairperson since 1997. She was awarded the Eleanor Clarke Slagle Lectureship and AOTF's A. Jean Ayres Award.

Edition details

• Publisher: AOTA Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 156900319X
• ISBN 13: 9781569003190
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 207