... a glow bookworm...

... filled with step-by-step guidance, practical advice, engaging stories, and includes a wealth of reproducible forms and tools. Wisdom and experience are embedded in a wealth of guidelines, checklists, and other tools to walk us through everything we need to know and do to be organizationally successful. 

  Mentoring hallmarks

•Alignment – Mentoring cannot be seen as merely an add-on to what's already in place.  Instead, it must be in line with other aspects of the organization so that the business reasons for engaging in mentoring are evident and tied directly to results.

•Accountability – Roles and responsibilities for all the key players must be clarified up front, both to manage expectations and encourage self- and organizational accountability.

•Communication – Mentoring efforts are more successful when executives, managers, and employees all understand what mentoring is, and how to get involved in it more.

 "Mentoring relationships offer an opportunity for individuals to nurture seeds in others so they might become blossoms, and blossoms might become fruit, which then nourishes others," writes Zachary.  "When mentoring relationships are rooted in the fertile soil of a mentoring culture, they also enrich the quality of organizational life."
 

This is a must-read by Lois J. Zachary, for anyone seeking a rich understanding of how the spirit of mentoring can be truly integrated into an organization. We just need to improvise, adapt adopt and overcome...Managed to finish reading this twice over the last 3 days long weekends.

Friends...Happy  reading !