Welcome to Episode #5 of Flourishing in the World, a podcast exploring topics related to personal professional growth, and working toward living a worthy life. Today’s guest is Kathy Kram, PhD, professor emeritus of Management and Organizations at Boston University. Dr. Kram is a world-renowned researcher best known for her foundational work on mentoring in the workplace. In this interview we talk about how she came to study mentorship and later developmental networks, what it means to be a mentor, building developmental networks, and she gives me a little mentoring on how to be a better mentor to my students.
Among her many books and publications, we discuss a few:
Mentoring at Work: Developmental Relationships in Organizational Life
Peer Coaching at Work: Principles and Practices
Kram & Higgins, A New Mindset on Mentoring: Creating Developmental Networks at Work
Shen, Cotton, & Kram Assembling your personal board of advisors (gated)
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Mentorship and Developmental Networks with Kathy Kram