You Be A Cool Mentor Too is for people at work who guide others: experienced colleagues who take a newcomer under their wing, managers who mentor, and anyone asked to share what they know.
It draws on research on mentoring relationships at work and helps you grow the qualities that let you guide, inspire and empower others to reach their full potential: trust, patience, good listening, fairness and a clear sense of direction.
You receive a personalised card deck and an ebook, both carrying your own name on every page. Each A4 card has a theme, a short description and an image on the front, and on the back a gathering of quotes from many voices and wisdom traditions, with room to write your own notes. The ebook holds the same wisdom as a flowing book with a clickable contents page and a dedication written for you. The themes follow fifteen mentoring qualities, among them Honest, Trustworthy, Respectful; Good Listener and Communicator; Patient, Allows for Mistakes; Reads and Understands Others; Judges Fairly and Objectively; and Models Leadership Qualities.
On WorkSmart4Life it sits on the WorkSmart library shelf, and it is one of the editions The Edge can give as a level reward at the Mentor level. Each card invites you to reflect on its quotes and choose one that speaks to you today. I suggest you begin with the first quality, Honest, Trustworthy, Respectful, perhaps before your next mentoring conversation.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, WorkSmart4Life