Publications

CIPD, 4^th Edition ISBN 978-1843980544

Written by a co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), this book provides a thorough introduction to mentoring and is useful for both mentors and mentees

Famous for the Time Management Matrix that encourages people to prioritise activities in a way that prevents them from being in a state of permanent “crisis management”

Wit and Wisdom Press ISBN 978-0-9562688-0-8

Based on the 18 months spent by the author conducting in-depth interviews with 21 senior women, from a range of backgrounds, working in science, engineering, technology and professional services. There is a 20 page section on mentoring

Sherwood Publishing. 2nd Edition. ISBN-10: 1907037012

Uses Transactional Analysis (TA) as the model for helping to understand relationships at work and it provides self-awareness activities to encourage the new behaviour that can transform working relationships

McGraw-Hill Professional, 3rd Edition ISBN 978-0071664189

Helping us to understand cultural difference and also to understand more about our own unconscious values and how they might impact on mentoring relationships

Cassell Illustrated. ISBN-13: 978-0706377453

Introduces the concept of the ‘Thinking Environment’ and the impact its use can have

Fisher King Publishing. ISBN 978-1-906377-10-6

Provides practical examples of the impact of each of the Ten Components and then describes practical applications of the Thinking Environment in group and pair work (which extend beyond Thinking Pairs & Thinking Groups)

McGraw-Hill Professional. ISBN 0077109678

Filled with advice about how to get the career you would like whatever stage you are at and is backed up with numerous self-awareness activities

Kogan Page. 2nd Edition. ISBN 978-0-7494-4365-8

Written by another co-founder of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (Parsloe), this book is really useful if you would like to know more about the similarities and differences between coaching and mentoring and will help you develop your “coach-mentor” skills with self-assessment activities and hints and tips

Kogan Page Limited

This book explores difference and in particular has taken a gender, generational, cultural, national and race perspective

Nicholas brealey Publishing. 4th Edition. ISBN 978-1857885354

Famous for explaining the GROW sequence of coaching – Goals, Reality, Options, Will and contains many questions that can be used or adapted to support this approach

International Journal of Coaching in Organisations, 4(2), pp 32-43

This article introduces a theoretical foundation to coaching based on brain function. It highlights some of the current findings about the neuroscience of attention, insight, reflection and action, through interviews with a leading neuroscientist

This literature review was commissioned by the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU).

http://www.ecu.ac.uk/publications/files/supporting-womens-mentoring-in-higher-education-literature-review.pdf/ (accessed March 2013)

This blog post relates the Thinking Environment to neuroscientific evidence: Kline’s ‘Generative Attention: Uncorrupted Silence’ approach is a high intensity method of getting people, but particularly leaders and executives, to change their behaviours by re-routing their hardwired thinking

http://www.iedp.com/Blog/Re-routing_Behaviour_through_uncorrupted_silence (accessed March 2013)

The Equality Challenge Unit. This publication focuses on case studies of successfully embedded and evaluated schemes at Queen’s University Belfast, Kingston University, the women in Universities Mentoring Scheme (WUMS) in Wales and the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee

http://www.ecu.ac.uk/publications/files/mentoring-progressing-womens-careers-in-higher-education.pdf/view?searchterm=mentoring (accessed March 2013)