...Susan Bloch Presents the findings of a recent survey on developing future top managers. Coaching and mentoring are used to encourage managers to take ownership of their own career development but results showed only one‐third of companies surveyed carry this out. Reveals that there has been...

..., for example,passive. The second is lack of support including limited financial resources, education and training, lack of child care arrangements,networks, role models, mentors and domestic constraints. A third barrier is attitudes such as employer biases, negative perceptions of women,attribution of female...

...Heli Lahtinen Mentoring is an important process in executive development, which facilitates more rapid career progress. Nearly two‐thirds of executives have had a mentor at some stage. Women are more often excluded from mentoring relationships. Describes the mentoring of female executives...

... as important for the future. The authors summarize the issues addressed in their recent book, Self‐development: A Facilitator′s Guide,which include team building (first in frequency of being seen as important for the future in the AMED report), mentoring (second),coaching (third), self‐development...

... to make predictions about future job opportunities and preparing for the unpredictable. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Career development Career planning Counselling Mentoring Self‐development ...