61: How to Start a Mentoring Program, with Stella Cowan
Coaching for Leaders
Dave Stachowiak
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2012
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Stella Cowan
A great mentoring program can help both the organization and its people achieve incredible results. In this episode, I welcome mentoring expert Stella Cowan to discuss what leaders should consider when designing and implementing a formal mentoring program in their organizations.
Here are the resources Stella mentioned, along with some additional tools:
- Dr. Lois Zachary (Center for Mentoring Excellence)
- Ida Abbott (home page)
- Stella recommends her articles “Beyond Mentors, the Need for Champions” and “Mentoring Groups and Mentoring Circles”)
- Stella recommends two to us during training/orientation and to provide continued support to mentors and mentees are: “Being an Effective Mentor: 101 Practical Strategies for Success,” and “Working with a Mentor: 50 Practical Strategies for Success.”
- So You Want to Be Mentored by Stella Cowan*
- International Mentoring Association (some parts of this site require membership for access)
- Slideshow: “Implementing a Mentoring Program” Stella uses this slideshow when presenting to groups interesting in implementing a program. The slideshow provides a high-level view of what’s required to create a successful design and launch.
- Sample Mentoring Agreement – This is a sample Stella found online and has referenced as a model.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to coaching for leaders. This is episode number 61, airing on October 29, 2012. |
| 0:07.0 | Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to coaching for leaders. |
| 0:19.0 | This is the show for leaders who want to improve themselves so they can better engage and develop |
| 0:25.4 | others. |
| 0:26.4 | Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time, improving your leadership |
| 0:31.6 | skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others. |
| 0:37.0 | This week's topic, how to start a mentoring program. |
| 0:46.0 | Well hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Coaching for Leaders. My name is Dave Stahoviac and I'm your host for this show and coming to you every Monday |
| 0:52.0 | from our studio here in Orange County, California. |
| 0:56.0 | And this week I'm bringing to you a request from a listener. |
| 1:00.0 | One of the things I've done many times in the past is ask listeners for input on future topics and |
| 1:07.0 | information they'd like to hear on the show and one of our listeners had emailed me about a month, month and a half ago and asked about resources |
| 1:14.6 | I might have around mentoring and starting a mentoring program. |
| 1:18.4 | And although I've been a part of mentoring programs in the past, I haven't had the privilege |
| 1:22.1 | of starting one before. so I did what I've seen |
| 1:25.8 | Bonnie do many times and she's been a great teacher for me in this area is anytime I'm trying to learn something |
| 1:31.1 | new is to go and grab a good book. |
| 1:34.2 | And I pulled down the handbook of improving performance in the workplace, which |
| 1:39.3 | volume two, which was edited by one of my professors back when I was at Pepperdine Doug Lay and his |
| 1:46.0 | colleague Ryan Watkins and I was paging through and looking for some information on mentoring |
| 1:51.0 | and I came across a great chapter on mentoring written by |
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