Mentoring for Exceptional Performance

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Summary: Well-written book for senior managers and HR professionals
Review: While probably not the definitive book on mentoring - this book is a must read for all management teams that are trying to change their culture to a high performance, learning organizations.

The book presents information explaining the potential benefits of mentoring (the why); provides insights and direction for establishing a comprehensive mentoring program (the what); and presents information that enables the reader to understand the critical elements of a effective mentoring program and the steps necessary to create a mentoring organization (the how).

As a long time CEO who has specialized in helping transitioning companies achieve improved performance, and more importantly, building high performance cultures, Mr. Johnson provides many practical strategies for transforming the human resources of the company through mentoring. Mr. Johnson has identified six principles for exceptional performance from which he had developed a Strategic Mentoring Model. The Strategic Mentoring Model focuses on nine distinct strategies of learning, leading and relating for individual, team and organization. Mr. Johnson concludes that leadership for a mentoring culture must come from the CEO and the management team.

Although the principles and model he has presented are good, I found his insights to leadership and behavior styles more valuable.