Laura Gail Lunsford - The Mentors Guide: Five Steps to Build a Successful Mentoring Program

A definitive resource that pulls together evidence from psychology, education, and organizational studies, this fully updated second edition translates research into practice and serves as a practical handbook on how to set up, run, and evaluate any mentoring program.

Despite ever-growing interest, there are few helpful resources for program managers and mentoring coordinators. This book sheds needed light on mentoring behaviors, the stages of mentoring, elements of high-quality relationships, and how to recognize and avoid dysfunctional ones. Step-by-step guidance will enable readers to:

• Understand what mentoring is (and is not)
• Assess their mentoring program using a clear framework
• Work through steps to design or redesign an effective mentoring program
• Draw on real-world examples to assess and improve programs
• Benefit from all-new material for this second edition, including a chapter on e-mentoring and in-depth case studies, as well as updated information on culturally intelligent mentoring and more

If you manage or support a mentoring program, then this handbook is for you. Human resource professionals across industries will gain ideas on how to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of mentoring, while administrators in higher education will value the content on formal mentorship programs for faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduates.

Laura Gail Lunsford is an expert in mentoring and leadership. She has written numerous articles, chapters, and books on mentoring and leadership, including co-editing the Sage Handbook of Mentoring. She is Assistant Dean and Full Professor of Psychology at Campbell University.

The Mentors Guide

Five Steps to Build a Successful Mentoring Program

2nd Edition

Laura Gail Lunsford

Second edition published 2022

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First edition published by Routledge 2016

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Lunsford, Laura Gail, author.

Title: The mentors guide : five steps to build a successful mentoring program / Laura Gail Lunsford.

Other titles: Handbook for managing mentoring programs

Description: 2nd edition. | New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. | Earlier edition published in 2016 as: A handbook for managing mentoring programs: starting, supporting and sustaining effective mentoring. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021028830 (print) | LCCN 2021028831 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367757557 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367757519 (paperback) | ISBN 9781003163862 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Mentoring.

Classification: LCC BF637.M45 .L86 2022 (print) | LCC BF637.M45 (ebook) | DDC 158.3--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021028830

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021028831

ISBN: 978-0-367-75755-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-75751-9 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-16386-2 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003163862

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