The Garden of Mentoring

This book presents a metaphor of the garden as an approach to mentoring as a leadership strategy. The metaphor is designed to provide a common language about ways to approach mentoring as a garden of people and a growthstimulating event for the people and the organization in which they work. The metaphor provides guidance about how to choose which flowers to plant and to cultivate, which to weed out, and how to plan and care for your overallgarden. Each flower has a different need and...
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This book presents a metaphor of the garden as an approach to mentoring as a leadership strategy. The metaphor is designed to provide a common language about ways to approach mentoring as a garden of people and a growthstimulating event for the people and the organization in which they work. The metaphor provides guidance about how to choose which flowers to plant and to cultivate, which to weed out, and how to plan and care for your overallgarden. Each flower has a different need and each garden a different look and personality. Some flowers play well with others and some do not. Some flowers need little care and others need a great deal of time and attention. While thisbook is written around a metaphor, it holds truisms about building and developing life, whether it is in the soil of a garden or the hallways of your organization.