Jonathan Gravells, Susan Wallace

Dial M for Mentor (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections On Mentoring in Film, Television and Literature

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book takes stories of learning relationships from popular films, television programmes and literature, and uses them as a catalyst for beginners and experts alike to reflect critically on their own mentoring and coaching practice. How realistic are our expectations of personal change, and to what extent is the flourishing self-help market responsible for this? What, if any, are the moral responsibilities of executive mentors and coaches, when it comes to global corporate wrongdoing? What should constitute 'truth' and 'knowledge' in a world in which ambiguity and doubt can appear more effective weapons of survival? What can Pinocchio, The Matrix, Star Wars or The Sopranos tell us about any of this? Storytelling and metaphor have become of increasing interest in research into leadership and learning. Here is a book which takes the idea of storytelling as a powerful aid to learning and change, and uses it to help practitioners and educators challenge their ideas on mentoring in an entertaining way, by asking themselves some of the difficult questions that these popular stories raise.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Information Age Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 149
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781617354311
• Artikelnr.: 56794987

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Gravells is a management consultant who advises organisations on mentoring and coaching, providing corporate training in the UK and around the world. He has published widely on mentoring, leadership and personal change. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and on the NHS register of approved executive coaches. Sue Wallace is the Professor of Continuing Education at Nottingham Trent University. Her particular interest is in mentoring and the ways in which a successful mentoring relationship can support personal and professional development. She has researched and published extensively on education, training and management of behaviour, and is a popular keynote speaker at conferences.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Mentoring in popular culture 1. Turkey, tomatoes and poppadoms:
storytelling and its role in making meaning and learning 2. Monks, mobsters
and the Matrix: knowledge, learning, action and change 3. Vampire, hustlers
and tough love: the use and abuse of power and trust 4. From the Bada-Bing
to the Belly of the Whale (by way of Belgium): the mentor as moral compass
and conscience 5. Ratso, Rita and the android: personal change and
self-fulfilment 6. The Enemy Within or just a critical friend? the
subversive mentor or transformation through subversion, humour and tough
love 7. Attorneys, aliens and fools: mentoring for diversity and speaking
truth to power 8. 'Get busy living or get busy dying': purpose, autonomy
and the power of positive thinking Summary and Index