Situational Mentor

Because the mentoring process involves a number of distinct stages, a wide range of skills are needed throughout the process and these skills are situational. In other words, a skilled mentor understands the principles of mentoring, but is also able to use appropriate skills according to the person with whom they are working and the stage they have reached in the relationship. In addition, different types of mentoring programme will demand a skills set particular to each. As with many other areas of development, a mix of the theoretical and the practical is needed to ensure that programmes and relationships achieve their potential. In The Situational Mentor: An International Review of Competences and Capabilities in Mentoring, David Clutterbuck and Gill Lane have brought together contributions from leading international academics and practitioners to define the key skills involved in mentoring and explore how these may be tailored to ensure a successful outcome in all instances. Chapter 1 Key themes: a literature review, GillLane; Chapter 2 The moral dimension of mentoring, StephenGibb; Chapter 3 Characteristics ascribed to mentors by their protégés, AnnDarwin; Chapter 4 Mentor competences: a field perspective, DavidClutterbuck; Chapter 5 A quantitative view of mentor competence, GillLane; Chapter 6 What about mentee competences?, DavidClutterbuck; Chapter 7 Competences of building the developmental relationship, TerriaScandura, Ekin KPellegrini; Chapter 8 Development and supervision for mentors, DavidMegginson, PaulStokes; Chapter 9 Insights from the psychology of executive and life coaching, Anthony MGrant; Chapter 10 Developmental relationships: a mentoring approach to organizational learning and knowledge creation, LizBorredon, MarcIngham; Chapter 11 The mentor as storyteller, MargaretParkin; Chapter 12 Variation in mentoring outcomes: an effect of personality factors?, TrulsEngstrom; Chapter 13 Virtual mentoring, Professor EllenFagenson-Eland, Rachel YanLu; Chapter 14 When mentoring goes wrong…, Dr BobGarvey; Chapter 15 All good things must come to an end: winding up and winding down a mentoring relationship, David Clutterbuck, David Megginson; Chapter 16 What have we learned from this book?, Gill Lane, David Clutterbuck;