Creating a Mentoring Culture: The Organization's Guide

Lois Zachary's "Creating a Mentoring Culture" is a must-have for organizations interested in creating a high performing and sustainable mentoring program and that want to ensure its alignment with the culture.My partner, Cherie Hutton, and I were recently engaged by a large corporation to help them design and implement a leadership development mentoring program. The mentoring program's sponsor wanted a sustainable program that would enhance and support existing succession planning and leadership development initiatives. As the consultants on the project, we were thrilled to find Zachary's "Creating a Mentoring Culture" because it aligned with our organizational approach and our own mentoring philosophy. We made this book a requirement for the design team and it quickly became an essential tool during the design phase. After reading the book, the design team realized the importance of the work that needed to be done prior to implementation.Zachary's focus on alignment with the culture of the organization, attention to understanding the specific goals of the program, emphasis on structure and process, and respect for metrics and monitoring supported our efforts fully. Pragmatic and easy-to- use exercises and templates are contained not only in the book, but also in an accompanying CD. Use of this book and the CD allowed us to standardize our design approach.Easy to read and deceptively simple, Zachary has created a practical guide that combines the best of organizational change theories and mentoring know-how to create a logical and unpretentious guide to creating a best-in-class mentoring program. We have incorporated this book into all of our mentoring implementation engagements.Following Zachary's sound advice will prevent missteps and ensure you are on the right path to successful implementation.

I enjoyed the book, but it seems to be missing the supplemental CD. How can I get that sent to me?

This book is helping me to create an internal mentorship program that will be sustainable. Well-written and easy to follow. It offers good advice and relevant information.

I read through this book and got so many great ideas. I am going to utilize this book to create a great mentoring program for my organization!

Supplemental CD was missing

Great book. It assisted me in putting together a mentoring program. It has some very important information and documents included.

For the practitioner, Lois Zachery's work is thorough, future focused and relevant across industries. A must read from both Mentor and Mentee perspectives.

Excellent book for police agencies