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Charles Wankel <cx@worldnet.att.net> asked me to post this information on
mentoring on this list. Our website,
http://www.islandnet.com/~rcarr/peer.html, includes a Top Books on
Mentoring list which can be specifically accessed at
http://www.islandnet.com/~rcarr/topmenbks.html.

This list changes periodically, but all of the past references, as well as
all articles published in the literature about mentoring can be found in
our annotated bibliography at http://www.islandnet.com/~rcarr/Docs.html.
(Be sure to use the uppercase "D" as in "Docs".)

Other resources that can be useful are:

Dr. Michael Galbraith (e-mail address is galbrait@acc.fau.edu). He and Norm
Cohen have edited a recent book about mentoring and it includes info on
training.

Another contact is the International Mentoring Association. Their home page
on the WWW is <http://www.indiana.edu/~rugsdev/ima.html>. They also run a
discussion listserv, CONSULT-L, but you must be a member of their
organization to participate.

Our organization provides various publications on mentoring including a
mentor program development resource, but our specialty is providing online
consultation to persons who want tips, advice, and information on starting,
maintaining, and evaluating mentor programs (this service is by a fee-based
subscription, however).

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Something to add to your inventory on mentoring, turned up today by one of
my entrepreneurship students:

<<Entrepreneur America has been providing mentoring services since early 1995
to companies ranging from start ups to established businesses whose
growth, profitability,and/or market position could be improved. We
concentrate on
strategies for business development and fund raising. For start ups, we
have a particular expertise in the process of obtaining initial funding
with emphasis on the
development of presentation materials. For established businesses, we
believe it is necessary to refine continually the business strategy to take
into account the changes in technology, markets, and the competitive
landscape.

http://www.entrepreneur-america.org/
<<

You might try using an existing case of mezzanine business development,
similar to the SBU level in larger organizations, and focus on that level
as the exercise. It matches some of the innovation literature (champions,
sponsors, mentors, intrapreneurs, etc.) that larger companies need to do
well to stay alive and grow, and may help all parties re-ground themselves
in SBU management while they're at it.

Tom Bryant.
+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+/+
Prof. Thomas A. Bryant, Ph.D., Visiting Professor and
State of New Jersey Chair in Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Faculty of Management, MEC 326
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
111 Washington Avenue, NEWARK, NJ 07102-3027 U.S.A.
Tel: (973) 353-1062; Fax: (973) 353-1664
e-mail: tabryant@andromeda.rutgers.edu