Career Development - Managers
Career Development: Additional Resources
More Help for Managers
Need more information? We've compiled a list of materials to help you
learn about managing for career development.
Books
All of these books are available through the UW Libraries:
- "Becoming a high-performance mentor: a guide to reflection
and action" by James B. Rowley.
- "Coaching for leadership: the practice of leadership coaching"
by Marshall Goldsmith and Laurence S. Lyons, editors.
- "Coaching: evoking excellence in others" by James Flaherty.
- "Deep smarts : how to cultivate and transfer enduring business
wisdom" by Dorothy Leonard, Walter Swap
- "Do you see what I see?: a diversity tale for retaining
people of color" by Janice Fenn, Chandra Goforth Irvin.
- "Frontline HR : a handbook for the emerging manager" by Jeffrey
S. Hornsby, Donald F. Kuratko
- "Love 'em or lose 'em : getting good people to stay" by Beverly
Kaye and Sharon Jordan-Evans
- "Mentorship primer" by Carol A. Mullen
- "Power mentoring: how successful mentors and protégés
get the most out of their relationship" by Ellen A. Ensher, Susan Elaine
Murphy.
- "Practice
of leadership : developing the next generation of leaders",
published by Jossey/Bass
- "Supervising staff: a how-to-do-it manual for librarians"
by Marcia Trotta.
- "Techniques for coaching and mentoring" by David Megginson,
David Clutterbuck
- "The 7 hidden reasons employees leave: how to recognize
the subtle
signs and act before it's too late" by
Leigh Branham
- "The accidental manager : get the skills you need to excel
in your new job" by Gary S. Topchik
- "The art and practice of leadership coaching : 50
top executive coaches reveal their secrets edited" by Howard Morgan,
Phil Harkins, and Marshall Goldsmith
- "The manager as mentor" by Michael J. Marquardt and Peter
Loan.
- "Valuing experience : how to motivate and retain mature
workers" by Howard Muson
Other Books
- "Building a Career Development Program: Nine Steps for Effective
Implementation" by Richard, L. Knowdell
- "Coaching for Peak Employee Performance: A Practical Guide to Supporting
Employee Development" by Bill Foster and Karen R. Seeker
- "Creating
a Mentoring Culture: The Organization's Guide" by Lois J. Zachary
- "Strategic Employee Development Guide, Manager's Guide" by Robert
O. Brinkerhoff and Rhonda C. Messinger
- "The Heart of Mentoring: Ten Proven Principles for Developing People
to Their Fullest Potential" by Robert Tamasy, David A. Stoddard
- "The
Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships" by
Lois J. Zachary
- "The Talent Management Handbook: Creating Organizational Excellence
by Identifying, Developing, and Promoting Your Best People" by Lance
A. Berger and Dorothy R. Berger
The Mentoring Manager
In this course, you'll acquire expertise as a mentor that will benefit
your employees, your organization, and your own career. You'll examine
how mentoring differs from managing, and you'll brush up on essential
communication skills. Finally, you'll learn to use mentoring to improve
on team organization, dynamics, and performance.
Effective Mentoring
You'll learn how to step into various mentoring roles, providing training,
guidance on professional development, advocacy, and emotional support.
You'll brush up on essential communication skills. And you'll learn
how to manage the mentoring relationship, from solving potential
challenges to guiding the relationship through a positive conclusion.
Implementing an Organizationwide Mentoring Program
Would a mentoring program give your employees the extra edge they need
to succeed? In this course, you'll learn about the purposes, advantages,
and procedures involved in developing a mentoring program. You'll
examine the program coordinator's role and the guidelines that should
be in place before the program begins. You'll learn about selecting
and matching mentors and proteges and motivating their progress.
Finally, you'll explore how to evaluate the program's effectiveness
so it can be fine-tuned for even greater success.
Developing Career Plans for Your Technical Professionals
This course will help you use career development as a technique to
both motivate and retain technical professionals, as well as to place
some of them on career paths that will help your company fill its
most highly skilled and senior positions. You will learn how to recognize
and avoid barriers to career development, how to analyze individuals'
career development needs, how to determine appropriate career development
roles, and how to use various career planning development tools.
Leading Generations X and Next
This course deals with the characteristics and needs of the two youngest
generations in the work force--Generations X and Next. These two
generations have quite different attitudes toward work and career
development.
Retention
During times of low unemployment, you very much want to avoid the costs
of high turnover. Developing strategies to keep those valuable employees
is a must and should be a part of your recruiting strategy. In this
course, you will explore reasons employees leave and the many ways
you can prevent most attrition from happening.
Articles
You have access to hundreds of journals through UW
Libraries.
This resource can provide you with both scholarly publications and
trade publications regarding management, supervision, and leadership.
