National Mentoring Month
The New Year marks the start of National Mentoring Month, a 31-day-long celebration of community and connection. This month includes several specific days dedicated to the people who make these connections possible, including:
- January 9: I Am A Mentor Day
- January 15: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
- January 17: International Mentoring Day
- January 24-26: National Mentoring Summit, Washington, D.C.
- January 25: Thank Your Mentor Day
To learn more about mentorship in academia, business, and beyond check out our featured books below or visit the current month's page on the lefthand menu.
Mentoring in 2024
According to the 2023 Who Mentored You? report, which drew from surveys of more than 2,600 intergenerational Americans, American adults give their mentors more than half of the credit (56%) for the success they have achieved in life. Mentoring is critical in the business world and beyond for those at the beginning of their careers. Read on for some featured titles on being a mentor, a mentee, and leading by example.
Featured Reading
Older and Wiser by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Youth mentoring is among the most popular forms of volunteering in the world. But does it work? Does mentoring actually help young people succeed? In Older and Wiser, mentoring expert Jean Rhodes draws on more than thirty years of empirical research to survey the state of the field.
Mentoring in Intercultural and International Contexts by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Although institutions of higher education are supposed to be places for knowledge, they can also be the source of anxiety and confusion. Effective mentoring provides guidance and support and can ease the transition to and success in higher education. This book conceptualizes mentoring in the context of critical and intercultural communication pedagogy.
Mentoring 2.0: A Practitioner's Guide to Changing Lives by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018A walking tour of the workings of the mentoring process, the key aspects of the practice of mentoring, and the snares and snags to look out for. It takes a systematic look at all aspects of getting the best out of being a mentor and having one to guide you.
Books for National Mentor Month
Leadership Through Mentoring: The Key to Improving the Confidence and Skill of Principals by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Leadership through Mentoring shows how effectiveness, vision, and engagement can be grown through intentional, supportive guidance and wise counsel, leading to longer and more successful principal tenures and significant improvements in school performance.
Peer Coaching at Work: Principles and Practices by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2018Peer Coaching at Work draws on research and practice to deliver a hands-on guide to this powerful relational learning technique. It's a must-have for the talent management bookshelf.
Mentorship-Driven Talent Management: The Asian Experience by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020This book aims to provide a deeper understanding of the contextual interpretation of mentoring by focusing on the Asian experience in countries such as China, India, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and Bangladesh.
The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart: Mentoring Yourself in Difficult Times by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021When we take knowledge and add humility, we get wisdom, and when we then add this very wisdom to compassion, we get love... and love is at the heart of a rich, compassionate, and resilient life.
Starting Strong: A Mentoring Fable by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2014A hands-on and usable guide to making the first 90 days of your mentoring relationship a success.
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2019The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value.
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