Mentors to the Stars

James Earl Jones, Oprah Winfrey, Walter Cronkite and John Glen, all cite special teachers as their most significant mentors. Others mention parents and grandparents (see: www.whomentoredyou.org). But for Ray Charles, it was the fellow down the road who let the little black kid hang around while he practiced boogie-woogie piano.

Read the article: http://www.odemagazine.com/article.php?aID=4228 Jay Walljasper  Saving The World One By One. Ode Magazine Issue 30, January 2006.

Football Hero Champions Mentoring

Retired Wallaby's Captain, John Eales took on a mentoring role at 2004 Olympics. Since then he has made the transition from sport to the corporate consulting world. He says leadership and mentoring are paramount in both spheres. However, the sporting environment produces a mentality where you are receptive to coaching, even when you are at the top of your field.

Mentoring Success Stories

 If you have a personal or corporate experience that you are willing to share with the world – with full acknowledgement or anonymously – please let us know. We are also interested in unsuccessful mentoring – what went wrong and why. You can write a sentence, a paragraph or a page or just ring and we'll write it up.

Singapore Teachers Love Mentoring

Visiting Singapore in January 2006, Ann Rolfe was booked to present a workshop on Designing Mentoring Programs for thirty senior teachers but 93 turned up! Singapore, like Australia, is experiencing leakage of talent at both ends of the spectrum - experienced teachers retiring and new teachers leaving. Service professions like teaching have overwhelming responsibilities and staff retention is an issue. Supporting people through mentoring may be part of the answer, but mentoring itself places yet another demand on over-stressed employees.