Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder

I loved this book. It is a 'parable' (a story with meaning and a message akin to the One Minute Manager style) about mentoring others to achieving their best. It offers key lessons to share with others in an insightful and highly useable way... in essence, it creates a template for mentoring others by providing the key topics to discuss and scenarios that challenges often present in by way of example. Very readable, very useful... highly recommended!

This book is short and very approachable, written in a unique conversational style with well-defined chapters. While aimed at leaders it is of value for all team members, and is structured so that you could use it to spur team conversation: "Let's read chapters and discuss them each week..." The tools that Cottrell introduces are simple enough to memorize but are robust enough to use in real life. As another reviewer pointed out, the time management discussion and tool is powerful even though it is only a few pages long. I find Dale Carnegie's books to be life changing, but believe this book will appeal to a wider audience today because it uses more modern language and examples. Cottrell's messages are compatible with those found in the Seven Habits and the Purpose Driven Life, but he leaves it up to the reader to connect motivation and ethics to their system of beliefs. As a result this book can be discussed with people who might feel uncomfortable with management books that tie their values and motivations directly to Christianity. In summary, this book is priceless as a tool for bringing teammates together, especially in a secular work setting. It is short and approachable, and it is neutral from the leader/individual contributor perspective and the religious perspective.

This book makes you think. It mirrored our work environment and gave us the incentive to make changes that needed to be made.

I purchased Monday Morning Mentoring at the recommendation of a colleague. After reading it, I went back and ordered copies for my administrative staff. The content is very applicable to real life and gives one suggestions on how to best prevent or at least handle situations that arise in the workplace. Great motivational book and easy read.

David Cottrell's MONDAY MORNING MENTORING: TEN LESSONS TO GUIDE YOU UP THE LADDER is for any who have longed for a fulfilling career and a mentor who can help them get there. David Cottrell packs his business savvy into a guide which presents a series of sessions with one 'Jeff', who is in a slump. 'Jeff' and his problems illustrate common work issues and solutions and offer plenty of insights based on real-world events. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch