Mentor Program Resources

Professional & Spiritual Readings to Enhance the Effectiveness of CU New York Mentors

Professional

1. The Importance of Networks

• To Change the World, James Davison Hunter, Chapter 4 (especially pp 36-38)
• Tips For Building Stronger Networks
• How Leaders Create And Use Networks

2. Communication – Verbal and Written

• Elements of Great Communication
• Verbal Communication Skills
• Written Communication Skills
• Stories as Communication

3. Managing Up

• What It Means To "Manage Up"
- Harvard Business Review
- Wall Street Journal
• Communications Involved In Managing Up
• Managing Up In The Workplace

4. Problem Solving

• Problem Solving Process
• Nine Steps To Problem Solving
• Building a problem-solving culture that lasts

5. Career Planning

• Connecting To Other Key Leaders
• Leaning In To Power

6. Mentor's Choice

Spiritual

1. Daily Devotions – the how and why
Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else. – Charles Spurgeon

• Basics On Why Have Devotions
• Avoiding God

2. Community
Questions can make hermits out of us, driving us into hiding. Yet the cave has no answers. Christ distributes courage through community; he dissipates doubts through fellowship. He never deposits all knowledge in one person but distributes pieces of the jigsaw puzzle to many. When you interlock your understanding with mine, and we share our discoveries, when we mix, mingle, confess and pray, Christ speaks. – Max Lucado

• Building Healthy Relationships
• Redemptive Community
• Life Together, by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

3. Stewardship
Every faculty you have, your power of thinking or of moving your limbs from moment to moment, is given you by God. If you devoted every moment of your whole life exclusively to His service, you could not give Him anything that was not in a sense His own already. – C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

• Principles Of Stewardship
• Bible References
• Law or Grace?

4. Integrating Faith & Work
The greatest tool God has given you to impact the world: your work. – Institute for Faith, Work and Economics

• A Biblical View of Work
• Faithful Presence at Work
• Rediscovering The Biblical Doctrine Of Work
• Calling and Presence

5. Public Square
People fulfill their individual and collective destiny in the art, music, literature, commerce, law and scholarship they cultivate, the relationships they build, and in the institutions they develop...as they reflect the good of God and his designs for flourishing. – James Davison Hunter

• The Kingdom Story
• A Posture of Public Faith
• The Gospel of New Life

6. Mentor's Choice