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Insights to Better Mentoring.


Insights to Better Mentoring, Video, 2006, Quality Media Resources, $625.

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 will tell you that Insights to Better Mentoring is not a resource to help you structure a mentoring program in your organization. The company feels there are many other excellent resources readily available to help you do that. However, if you're looking for Looking for

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 some best practice information on what makes any type of mentoring relationship successful, Insights to Better Mentoring is exactly what you are looking for.

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Mentoring relationships can provide solutions to many of the critical issues confronting companies today. Whether you are focusing on leadership continuity or quality, creating generational peace, preserving institutional knowledge, or building cross-cultural competency--a program incorporating QMR's foundations of mentoring will help you achieve all of these goals. This is an excellent program that will improve the quality of any type of mentoring partnership for both the mentor and the mentee men·tee  
n.
One who is mentored.



[ment(or) + -ee1.]
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Aimed at mentor and mentees

The target audience of this program is mentors and mentees. It includes a video or DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
, a printed facilitation Facilitation

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 guide including reproducible handouts, a CD with the facilitation guide in Word and PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format.  formats, and PowerPoint slides to be used as classroom presentation support material.

The 26-minute documentary-style DVD explores four successful mentoring relationships. The employees profiled are not actors but actual mentors and mentees who work in these organizations. I appreciated the variety of the companies depicted de·pict  
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1. To represent in a picture or sculpture.

2. To represent in words; describe. See Synonyms at represent.
 as well as the diversity of the mentoring pairs.

The DVD is a component of well designed two-hour or three and a half-hour training programs for mentors and mentees. The facilitated program consists of pre-DVD discussion questions introducing mentoring, a screening, and post-DVD discussions exploring the four pillars Four Pillars may refer to:
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  • Four Pillars of Destiny, a Chinese component used in fortune telling.
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 of mentoring--Inquire, Share, Encourage, Care--and how they are illustrated in the film.

The facilitation guide for Insights to Better Mentoring is one of the best instructor's guides I have seen. The facilitation portion is only 17 pages followed by some very nice reproducible handouts. The guide is visually appealing with an uncluttered look and a clean, consistent format. Even if you do not have a lot of experience with mentoring programs, the facilitation guide is so well designed that as soon as you open it you will probably say to yourself, I can do this!

No hard sell

What is unique about Insights to Better Mentoring is that the program does not suggest or "sell" any particular structure or format for a mentoring program but instead encourages you to focus on building the confidence and skills of your mentors and mentees. The DVD does an excellent job of showing the best practice core values or pillars of mentoring (Inquire in·quire   also en·quire
v. in·quired, in·quir·ing, in·quires

v.intr.
1. To seek information by asking a question: inquired about prices.

2.
, Share, Encourage, Care) in action.

The variety of profiled companies, mentors, and mentees make this program widely appealing and relevant for all types of organizations. And the real employees in the DVD are superb!

The program format is flexible, offering a short or longer version--and the highly interactive format makes it very easy to facilitate.

I am very impressed with the content, design, flexibility, and materials this program offers. I would highly recommend it if you would like to build the quality of your mentoring relationships.

Recommendation

I highly recommend QMR's Insights to Better Mentoring. If you are starting any type of mentoring program in your company, I would not do it without this valuable resource. If you already have a mentoring program, this program is perfect for enhancing the quality of your mentor and mentee partnerships-which is exactly how I plan to use it!

Review by Nancy Price Nancy Price (February 03, 1880 – March 31, 1970), born Lilian Nancy Bache Price in Kinver, Staffordshire, England, was an actress, authoress and manageress of Little Theatre in the Adelphi, a West End theatre on the Strand in London.  
Product Ratings

Insights to Better Mentoring

Acting/presenting    ****
Diversity            ****
Production quality   ****
Documentation        ****
Value of Content     ****
Instructional Value  ****
Value for the money  ****
Overall rating       ****
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Date:Nov 1, 2006
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