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Success through Mentoring - Program Details

Best Practices & Findings From the Field: Excellence in Mentoring from Both Individual & Organizational Perspectives

Lois Zachary – President of Leadership Development Services, Phoenix

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View Mentoring Culture Audit - This Mentoring culture audit was reproduced from "Creating a Mentoring Culture" by Lois Zachary with permission of the publisher. Copyright © 2005 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Published by Jossey-Bass, a Wiley Imprint.

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The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships
by Lois Zachary

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.

Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization's Guide
by Lois Zachary



Components of Effective Mentoring Programs

Carol Muller – Founder, President and CEO, MentorNet

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Recommended References

  • Clutterbuck, D. (2001). Everyone Needs a Mentor. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
  • Rhodes, J.E. (2002). Stand by Me: The Risks and Rewards of Mentoring Today's Youth. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press.
  • Stromei, L. (2001). Implementing Successful Coaching and Mentoring Programs (2001). Cambridge, MA. American Society for Training and Development.


Mentoring Experiences of People of Color: Lessons from Theory & Practice

Stacy Blake-Beard – Associate Professor of Management, Simmons College

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Recommended Articles on Diversity & Mentoring

  • Blake-Beard, S.D. 2001. "Mentoring relationships through the lens of race and gender." CGO Insights, No.10. Boston, MA: Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons School of Management. (http://www.simmons.edu/som/cgo/insights10.pdf).
  • Blake-Beard, S. D. 2001. "Taking a hard look at formal mentoring programs: A consideration of potential challenges facing women." Journal of Management Development, 20(4), 331-345.
  • Blake, S.D. 1999. "The costs of living as an outsider within: An analysis of the mentoring relationships and career success of black and white women in the corporate sector." Journal of Career Development, 26(1), 21-36.
  • Blake, S. D. 1999. "At the crossroads of race and gender: The mentoring experiences of professional Black women." In A. Murrell, F. Crosby & R. Ely (Eds.), Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships in the Multicultural Organization. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers.
  • Blake-Beard, S.D. 2005. "The inextricable link between mentoring and leadership." In L. Coughlin and E. Wingard (Eds), Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of Leadership. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
  • Blake-Beard, S.D. & Morgan-Roberts, L. 2004. "Releasing the double bind of visibility of minorities in the workplace." CGO Commentaries No. 4. (http://www.simmons.edu/som/cgo/commentaries_4.pdf). Boston, MA: Center for Gender in Organizations, Simmons School of Management.
  • Bell, E. & Nkomo, S. (2001). Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press
  • Murrell, A.J., Crosby, F.J. & Ely, R.J. (1999). Mentoring dilemmas: Developmental relationships within multicultural organization. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Clutterback, D. Ragins, B.R. (2002). Mentoring and diversity: An international perspective. Boston, MA: Butterworth and Heinemann..
  • Frierson, H.T. (1997). Diversity in higher education (Vol. 1): Mentoring and diversity in higher education. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
  • Frierson, H.T. (1998). Diversity in higher education (Vol. 2): Examining protégé-mentor experiences. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
  • Thomas, D.A. (1993). Racial dynamics in cross-race developmental relationships. Administrative Science Quarterly, 38, 1690194.
  • Thomas, D.A. (1990). The impact of race of managers' experiences of developmental relationships. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 11, 479-492.
  • Thomas, D.A. and Alderfer, C. (1989). The influence of race on career dynamics theory and research on minority career experiences. In M.B. Arthur, D.T. Hall, and B.S. Lawrence (Eds.), Handbook of Career Theory (pp. 133-158). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Thomas, D.A. & Gabarro, J.J. (1999) Breaking through: The making of minority executives in corporate America. Boston: Harvard Business School Press.


Research Overview: What's different About E-Mentoring and Why Would You Use it?

Ellen Ensher – Associate Professor of Management, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

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Recommended References

  • Ensher, E. A., Heun, C., & Blanchard, A. (2003). Online mentoring and computer-mediated communication: New directions in research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 63(2), 264-288. Can be retrieved from: http://myweb.lmu.edu/eensher.
  • Ensher, E. A., & Murphy, E. (2005). Power Mentoring: How Mentors and Protégés Get the Most Out of Their Relationships, San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
  • Hamilton, B., & Scandura, T. (2003). E-Mentoring: Implications for organizational learning and development in a wired world. Organizational Dynamics, 31(4), 388-402.
  • Ragins, B. R. (2002). Understanding diversified mentoring relationships: definitions, challenges, and strategies. In D. Clutterbuck & B. Ragins, Mentoring and Diversity: An International Perspective, (pp. 23-53). Woburn, MA: Butterworth- Heinemann.
  • Single, P., B., & Single R. (2005). E-mentoring for social equity: review of research to inform program development. Mentoring and Tutoring, 13(2), 301-320.
  • Single, P.B., & Muller, C. (2001). When email and mentoring unite: The implementation of a nationwide electronic mentoring program. In L. Stromei (Ed.), Implementing successful coaching and mentoring programs, (pp. 107-122). Cambridge, MA: American Society for Training & Development (ASTD) In Action Series.

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Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors & Protégés get the most out of their relationships
by Ellen Ensher, Susan Murphy




Behind the Scenes – How MentorNet works

Stephanie J. Fox - Director of Technology, MentorNet

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