Mentoring: It's Not Bloody Rocket Science - Paperback

by Dulcie Swanston (Author)

With contributing authors Juliett Cattermole, Raveena Dhahwal, Paul Gandy, Emma Gibbens, Mel Lawn and Tadiwanashe Taimu

Mentoring is usually a relationship between two successful, busy people - and that's exactly the challenge.

If you've been asked to mentor, it's almost certainly because you're good at what you do and you genuinely care about helping others grow. Your time is already accounted for, several times over.

If you're coming to this as a mentee, you're probably at one of those moments where everything is about to accelerate - a bigger role, a steeper learning curve, more riding on every decision. You're not short of things to do either.

This is a book for both of you. For mentoring partners who want to make the most of the time they spend together and get a real return on that investment - for themselves and for their businesses.

To write it, we brought together a diverse group of people who have been on both sides of the relationship - across three continents and six industries. Some mentored brilliantly. Others looked back and realised, in their own words, that they'd got it wrong despite the best intentions. We've all been there.

Between us, we cover the science, the theory, and what we've learnt from experience - so you can learn from us, and with us, without wasting a minute.

Here's to every mentoring conversation from here being a little sharper, a little more honest, and genuinely worth your time.