Resources for Mentors and Mentees

Every long-term mentoring discussion eventually runs a little dry. The Mentor and Mentee are still learning together but their interactions would benefit from some new topics and inspiration. Over the years, I have collected some excellent mentoring resources to recommend. Some resources are particular to mentoring but others will be fascinating to any professional. Here is a small selection:

• Aimee Mullins: It's not fair having 12 pairs of legs, TED Talk – Prosthetic Aesthetics, 2009, Web Video Run time: about 10 minutes
• By the Numbers: Statistics about Women and IT. The most compelling statistics on women's participation in IT on a single page, NCWIT - National Center for Women & Information Technology, 2012 (updated annually), Document: 1 page
• Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us, by Dan Pink, RSA: Animate, 2010, Web Video Run time: under 11 minutes
• Eric Whitacre: A choir as big as the Internet, TED Talk, 2010, Web Video Run time: about 6 minutes
• Ignite Talk - THE 22 MINUTE MEETING by Nicole Steinbok, 2010Web Video Run time: under 6 minutes
• Intelligent Mentoring: How IBM Creates Value through People, Knowledge, and Relationships, by Audrey J. Murrell, Sheila Forte-Trammell, Diana A. Bing, IBM Press, 2008. Document: 256 pages
• Sun Mentoring: 1996-2009, by Katy Dickinson, Tanya Jankot, Helen Gracon, Sun Labs Technical Report SMLI TR-2009-185, 2009. Document: 107 pages
• The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press, Theory and practice of information design. Documents and other materials

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