Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader: Proven Strategies for Building Excellence in Your Organization

Mentoring, essential for effective Talent Management and Development, is growing more important as organizations look for competitive advantage in recruiting, developing and retaining talented people. Mentoring is becoming an essential leadership skill, and the ability to mentor is one way that leaders set themselves apart from mere managers/administrators. The first mentor was Nestor, the trusted advisor of the King of Sparta in the Ancient Greek poem the Odyssey. This webinar will describe mentoring as an essential leadership skill, will distinguish it from coaching, and will describe effective ways (strategies) to use mentoring to build a High-Performance Workplace corporate culture.

Upon completing this session, participants will be able to:

• Understand what it is to be a mentor
• Distinguish a mentor from a coach
• Review the importance of mentoring
• Discuss the difference between formal and informal mentoring programs
• Summarize how mentoring programs are established and carried out
• Review how mentoring programs are useful in talent management programs, succession planning programs, and other Human Resource (HR) efforts
   

• What is mentoring?
• Why is mentoring important?
• What is the difference between formal and informal mentoring?
• How does mentoring differ from coaching?
• What are the different types of mentoring?
• Why is mentoring critical to effective talent development and talent management?
• What model can guide effective mentoring? How does the mentoring model differ from coaching?

Workers are attracted to organizations based on the reputation of an employer (the employment brand) and stay with employers that deliver on that brand promise. Mentoring is key to effective employee engagement and to employee retention. But it is not always well understood and is sometimes confused with coaching or sponsoring workers. This session will describe proven strategies to use mentoring to best effect.

All organizations can use mentoring programs effectively.

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLP Fellow is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc. He has worked in HR for more than 40 years and has also worked as a consultant for more than 50 multinational corporations--including Motorola China, General Motors, Ford, and many others. In 2012 he earned ASTD’s prestigious Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award, and in 2013 ASTD honored him by naming him as a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) Fellow. (ASTD is now called ATD.) In 2014 he was given the Asia-Pacific International Personality Brandlaureate Award.

He has authored, coauthored, edited or coedited 115 books since 1987. His recent books since 2017 include Virtual Coaching to Improve Group Relationships: Process Consultation Reimagined (Routledge, 2021), The Essential Human Resource Guide for Small Business and Start Ups (Society for Human Resource Management, 2020); Increasing Learning and Development’s Impact Through Accreditation (Palgrave, 2020); Workforce Development: Guidelines for Community College Professionals, 2nd ed. (Rowman-Littlefield, 2020); Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Performance, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2018);  Innovation Leadership (Routledge, 2018), Evaluating Organization Development: How to Ensure and Sustain the Successful Transformation (CRC Press, 2017), Marketing Organization Development Consulting: A How-To Guide for OD Consultants (CRC Press, 2017), Assessment and Diagnosis for Organization Development: Powerful Tools and Perspectives for the OD practitioner (CRC Press, 2017). He also authored such books as The Leader’s Daily Role in Talent Management (2015), Effective Succession Planning, 5th ed. (2015), and Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader (2013).