HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need (HBR Guide Series)

by Harvard Business Review

Overview

Find the right person to help supercharge your career.

Whether you’re eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to come looking for you—and you’ll probably be waiting forever.

Instead, you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals. Managed correctly, mentoring is a powerful and efficient tool for moving up.

The HBR Guide to Getting the Mentoring You Need will help you get it right. You’ll learn how to:

• Find new ways to stand out in your organization
• Set clear and realistic development goals
• Identify and build relationships with influential sponsors
• Give back and bring value to mentors and senior advisers
• Evaluate your progress in reaching your professional goals

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781422196007
Publisher:	Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date:	01/14/2014
Series:	HBR Guide Series
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, 11 international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

Author social media/website info: hbr.org, @HarvardBiz

Table of Contents

Introduction: Taking Charge of Your Career Tamara Erickson 1

Section 1 What Good Mentoring Looks Like

1 The Relationship You Need to Get Right 9

Understanding your role as a protégé Sylvia Ann Hewlett Melinda Marshall Laura Sherbin

2 Mentoring in All Its Shapes and Sizes 23

Mentoring comes from lots of sources-not just sage executives with 20 years on you Amy Gallo

Section 2 Mapping Out Your Development

3 Reaching Your Potential 31

Know yourself-and find fulfillment Robert S. Kaplan

4 Making Yourself Indispensable 43

Shore up what you already do best John H. Zenger Joseph R. Folkman Scott K. Edinger

5 Why You Didn't Get That Promotion 71

Get the feedback you need to advance John Beeson

Section 3 Growth and Advancement

6 Finding the Right Mentors 87

Here are three common types-and when each works best Diane Coutu

7 Defining Your Goals and Expectations 95

Some questions to guide your thinking

8 Starting and Maintaining Relationships with Mentors 99

It takes structure and rigor to build strong relationships and keep them fruitful Lew McCreary

9 How to Get More from Your Mentors 113

Provide value-and receive more in return Jodi Glickman

10 Employ a Personal Board of Directors 117

Hitching your career to one mentor won't take you far Priscilla Claman

11 A Smarter Way to Network 121

Connect with carefully chosen people to get more out of your relationships Rob Cross Robert Thomas

12 Accelerate Your Development: Tips for Millennials 135

Put your mentoring on a fast track to compete for bigger roles Jeanne C. Meister Karie Willyerd

13 Mentoring for Gen Xers 143

Earlier in your career, it made sense to dabble. Now it's time to play to your strengths Tamara Erickson

14 Keep Learning from Your Protégés 151

Stay humble, and stay sharp Hollis Heimbouch

Index 157