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Hi
Ann Rolfe
here with the latest Mentoring News.
Mentors To The Stars
James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Walter Cronkite and John Glen, all cite special teachers as their most significant mentors. Others mention parents and grandparents (see: www.whomentoredyou.org). But for Ray Charles, it was the fellow down the road who let the little black kid hang around while he practiced boogie-woogie piano.
Read the article: http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4228 Jay Walljasper Saving The World One By One. Ode Magazine Issue 30, January 2006.
Football Hero Champions Mentoring
Retired Wallaby's Captain, John Eales took on a mentoring role at 2004 Olympics. Since then he has made the transition from sport to the corporate consulting world. He says leadership and mentoring are paramount in both spheres. However, the sporting environment produces a mentality where you are receptive to coaching, even when you are at the top of your field.
Read more: Dynamic Small Business Magazine December/January 2005
www.dsbmag.com.au
Mentoring Success Stories
If you have a personal or corporate experience that you are willing to share with the world – with full acknowledgement or anonymously – please let us know. We are also interested in unsuccessful mentoring – what went wrong and why. You can write a sentence, a paragraph or a page or just ring and we'll write it up.
Australian Experience World Class
Ann Rolfe's workshop: Designing Mentoring Programs received outstanding reviews at the International Mentoring Association's Annual Conference in 2005. As a result, Ann was invited to Chicago in March 2006 to present again. You can purchase the workshop manual: How To Design and Run Your Own Mentoring Program, Mentoring Works for US$57.00 Order on www.mentoring-works.com
Singapore Teachers Love Mentoring
Visiting Singapore in January 2006, Ann Rolfe was booked to present a workshop on Designing Mentoring Programs for thirty senior teachers but 93 turned up! Singapore, like Australia, is experiencing leakage of talent at both ends of the spectrum - experienced teachers retiring and new teachers leaving. Service professions like teaching have overwhelming responsibilities and staff retention is an issue. Supporting people through mentoring may be part of the answer, but mentoring itself places yet another demand on over-stressed employees.
I hope you
have enjoyed this edition of the Mentoring News, you can find some
great free resources and excellent mentoring products at www.mentoring-works.com
Ann Rolfe
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