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    Situational Mentoring
    Situational Mentoring
    Situational Mentoring
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    Situational Mentoring

    By Dr. William A. Gray

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    Why should you read Situational MentoringTM? You will learn what over 100,000 mentors and proteges have learned: How to employ four Mentoring Styles in a flexible manner – so mentors equip proteges with what they know (wisdom, practical know-how, etc.) and empower what proteges want to do and become. Situational MentoringTM prevents “getting stuck” overly using a Preferred Mentoring Style – which causes mentoring relationships to fall apart so goals are not met.

    Book purchasers can receive a free copy of the Mentoring Style Indicator by contacting Dr. Gray.

    Since 1978, different kinds of proteges have benefited from Situational Mentoring: youth in grades 4-12, college students, new teachers and principals, new hires in corporate and government situations, as well as proteges needing guidance for career development and for becoming leaders.

    Chapter 1: Why Situational Mentoring? describes the negative consequences of “getting stuck” overly using a Preferred mentoring Style – and how to prevent this.

    Chapter 2: Equipping + Empowering => Successful Protégé describes the importance of equipping protégés with what mentors know and empowering what protégés want to do and become, and how this can have a transformational impact on the protégé and the organization.

    Chapter 3: Mentoring with the Right Style provides a Situation from one of the 11 versions of my Mentoring Style Indicator, then describes four Mentoring Styles and 26 mentoring behaviors that equip and empower proteges.

    Chapter 4: Mentoring for Results describes a 6-Step Mentoring ProcessTM to equip and empower proteges to handle challenging situations. Such as: solving a difficult problem, deciding what to do when facing a dilemma, transitioning to a different position or career.

    Chapter 5: Applying Situational Mentoring provides a transcript of a mentor helping a protege make a major career change, by progressing from being Unconsciously Incompetent (“I don’t have a clue what to do”) to become Consciously Competent (aware of what to do and able to do it).

    Chapter 6: How Proteges Can Manage Situational Mentoring describes how I guided my first business mentor through my 6-Step Mentoring Process so he could help me transition from being a salaried professor to become an entrepreneur generating my own income.

    Chapter 7: Mentor-Assisted Enrichment Projects Enhance STEM Education describes my most significant application of Situational Mentoring over an eight year period when I was a professor – and gave my undergrads course credit for carrying out projects with small groups of protégés (grades 4-12), which focused on an important aspect of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics (STEM).

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. William A. Gray
    Release dateJan 20, 2012
    ISBN9780986879630
    Situational Mentoring
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    Dr. William A. Gray

    About Dr. William A. Gray:After earning a PhD from the University of Texas, I taught at the University of British Columbia for 15 years, where I began to do research on how to develop successful Formalized Mentoring Programs and train Mentor-Protege Partners to achieve intended goals.Seeing the benefits gained by proteges, mentors and the sponsoring organization, I left academia in 1986 to devote myself full-time to foster formalized mentoring [along with my wife, Marilynne Miles Gray]. Together, we organized the First International Conference on Mentoring and published the only journal on mentoring.I have trained over 20,000 mentors and proteges to work together, using Gray's Mentor-Protege Relationship ModelTM and materials we especially developed, such as the Mentoring Compatibility IndicatorTM, Mentoring Style IndicatorTM, Mentoring Action PlanTM, Mentoring AgreementTM, and Protege Needs InventoryTM. I’ve helped over 150 organizations to define, design and deliver different kinds of Mentoring Programs and develop Mentoring Relationships that Work.Email: wgray@mentoring-solutions.com OR christianmemoirs@shaw.caWebsite: http://www.mentoring-solutions.com OR http://www.christianmemoirs.com

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      Situational Mentoring - Dr. William A. Gray

      Situational Mentoring

      Published by Dr. William A. Gray at Smashwords

      © 2012 William A. Gray

      ISBN 978-0-9868796-3-0

      *****

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      *****

      ENDORSEMENTS

      My introduction to Bill Gray and Situational Mentoring started in 1992, when he trained mentors and proteges to employ Situational Mentoring in CSX Transportation’s Associate Development Program. After eight years, I took over from Bill, teaching ADP participants how to use the four Mentoring Styles for giving and receiving assistance, identified by Bill’s Mentoring Style Indicator. This training still continues because Situational Mentoring produces mentoring relationships that benefit proteges, mentors and the organization.

      ~Dr. Doug Klippel, former Mentoring Coordinator at CSX and current President of People Development Partners (http://www.peopledevpartners.com)

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      When I was Director of Human Resources for Eastman Kodak, I was responsible for orienting newly hired researchers into our research labs. We tried putting them beside veteran researchers in the lab – to receive informal mentoring when needed – but this didn’t work. So, I contacted Bill Gray to help us plan and implement a formalized mentoring program, and to train participants to employ Situational Mentoring to meet the situational needs of proteges as these were identified. Because this worked so well, I contacted Bill to help Kodak plan and implement two more programs. I’ve seen first-hand how Bill’s approach produces results, and can highly recommend Situational Mentoring.

      ~Bob Calman, former Director of Human Resources for Eastman Kodak

      *****

      FOREWORD

      Situational Mentoring

      Have you ever been in a situation where you needed advice and direction from your mentor, and did not get this because the mentor thought you should figure out what to do? Or in a situation where you asked a mentor to be a sounding board for your idea to do something, and the mentor started telling you what he would do?

      Have you been in a situation where you knew from greater experience that your protege was going to make a critical mistake, and your protege would not heed your wise counsel? Or in a situation where your protege depended on you too much, and you didn’t know how to get your protege to take more initiative?

      In a much longer, previous book – Mentoring Relationships that Work – I describe how to utilize four Mentoring Styles and associated mentoring behaviors in a flexible manner so proteges (mentees) will accept and utilize the various kinds of assistance mentors can provide, and mentors will provide assistance that is situationally appropriate for what each protege needs.

      I also describe more than 30 very different, formalized Mentoring Programs I have helped organizations to develop. I explain why a Mentoring Program Development Expert (who has at least 10 years of dedicated experience and practical know-how) is needed to define, design and deliver all of the essential components that each distinctive Program requires to produce multiple benefits for proteges, mentors and their organization. And, I contrast informal and formalized mentoring to show how different they are on 10 key characteristics.

      [You can preview or purchase Mentoring Relationships that Work at this URL: http://www.smashwords.com/books/search?query=Mentoring+Relationships+that+Work .]

      In response to many requests, my current book focuses entirely on the importance of Situational Mentoring™. What I share is based on over 30 years experience training over 40,000 mentors and proteges to employ four Mentoring Styles in a flexible manner – so mentors equip proteges with what they know (wisdom, practical know-how, etc.) and empower what proteges want to do and become.

      Since 1978, different kinds of proteges have benefited from this: youth in grades 4-12, college students, new teachers and principals, new hires in corporate and government situations, as well as proteges needing guidance for career development and for becoming leaders. (I’ve developed a Mentoring Style Indicator for each type of protege and their mentors – to enable them to work together successfully. This is described in Chapters 3-5.)

      I discovered that unless mentors employ Situational Mentoring™, they tend to get stuck overly using a Preferred Mentoring Style. Proteges can also get stuck wanting a Preferred Mentoring Style to be employed, if they don’t accept and request Situational Mentoring. The consequences of getting stuck are described in Chapter 1.

      As I near retirement I’ve been looking back at everything my wife (Marilynne) and I did in the field of mentoring for over 30 years. I’ve realized that the most significant work was done during our first eight years (when we were academics), as we researched and developed our first formalized mentoring program – which we called Mentor-Assisted Enrichment Projects to enhance what is now called STEM Education (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). Doing this revealed

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