Mentoring: A Practitioners Guide to Touching Lives (SAGE Classics) - Softcover

Unny Guptan, Sunil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8132110250 ISBN 13: 9788132110255

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

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Mentors are people who make a significant difference to the lives of others, lifting them out of being ordinary and leading them to an almost magical transformation. This book is a comprehensive guide to the intricate world of mentoring in organizational settings. Based on the author’s pioneering research and wide-ranging practice, this book unravels the entire mentoring process, from building the mentor-mentee relationship to the precautions that need to be taken and the ways in which organizational goals can be attained. He also discusses:

– The skills of a good mentor
– How the mentor’s mind works, and the values and attitudes she/he must have
– The mentor’s code of ethics
– How to handle tricky situations relating to power, authority, and gender issues
– How to set up a successful mentoring scheme in an organization

Enriched with actual cases and the experiences of people undergoing mentoring, this book is a powerful tool for understanding and practice. It will most benefit senior management in large organizations, human-resources professionals, and faculty in business and management schools and other institutions of higher education.

About this title

About the Author:

Dr Sunil Unny Guptan is a professor, mentor, life and executive coach, author, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, corporate educator, journalist and social thinker. He is based out of Hyderabad, India.

He now heads Touching Lives, an initiative to make a significant difference in the lives of people. He is also Director of Emotions Toolbox Pvt Ltd, focusing on leveraging technology platforms to promote healthy social and personal relationships, emotional health and psychological wellness. He is a mentor and executive coach to several CEOs and top executives, and a popular speaker and consultant in India and other geographies. He has been teaching at IIMA for the past one and a half decade, and is also Adjunct Professor of OB & HRM at IIM Udaipur. He is a Visiting Faculty at Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and Faculty Resource of the Duke Corporate Education’s Global Learning Resource Network.

His book Mentoring was released as a part of the classics series in 2013 (first edition 2006) and Executive Coaching in November 2011, both published by SAGE. He has also co-authored Indian Management, released in 1991. He has written over 80 journalistic and popular articles in various magazines and newspapers on subjects ranging from television and social processes to medical sciences and wildlife. He has also written and produced several radio and educational television programmes.

He has a PhD in business management, a master’s degree in communication and journalism, and graduated with an honours degree in chemistry from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He has also trained at the School of Public Policy in the University of Birmingham, UK, on a British Council Fellowship.

He focuses now in giving people’s life and career a positive makeover. He invests his personal time in counselling and helping people cope with and repair strained relationships and troubled lives.

You can connect with him at mentor@touchinglives.co.in.

Review:

This book is a contribution to taking mentoring as a developmental intervention forward, not just in an Organizational and corporate setting, but also in the personal lives of people...provides a good clarity and understanding on various basic issues associated with Mentoring and in its real sense becomes a practitioner’s guide. The case studies given in the book on various aspects provide a better clarity and example to what the author wants to put across... the book remains to be an indispensable reading or re-reading for all those stakeholders of mentoring process who would like to develop a culture of learning and development in their Organizations.

-- South Asian Journal of Management

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 8132110250
• ISBN 13: 9788132110255
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 228