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TOPICS
- Compass Features Expert Tips on Mentoring
- Attend a Mentoring Conference or Seminar
- Different Ways to Recognize Mentors
- Use the Latest Mentoring Literature to Guide Practice
COMPASS FEATURES EXPERT TIPS ON MENTORING
The next issue of Compass: A Magazine for Peer Assistance, Mentorship, and Coaching will be published in June, 2004 and will feature three articles written by mentoring experts. Professor David Clutterbuck of the European Mentoring Council identifies seven layers of mentoring conversations and guides mentors through the steps necessary to make the most out of mentoring interactions. His research on mentoring helps to sort out why things go wrong in mentoring relationships and how to get them back on track.
A mentor often faces dilemmas about the boundary between career development guidance and personal counselling. Experienced mentor, Howard Englander, shares three examples of mentoring conversations where he had to make decisions about the extent of the mentoring assistance he could provide. The choices he made focus on the heart of mentoring and are instructive to mentors who are challenged by expectations, boundaries, and outcomes.
David Neils, the director of the International Telementoring Center, shares the details about why the Center has been so successful in connecting hundreds of scientists as mentors with students around the world. He shows that the quality of mentoring that young people receive contributes to their success in learning.
In addition to these articles on mentoring, a story about how a short mentoring conversation changed the life and career direction of a retired writer from promising baseball player to university professor is a featured brief case study.
This issue of the magazine also includes articles on the role of peer support in reducing bullying at school; a case study of the way in which executive coaching contributed to significant growth; how brain research is influencing new directions in trauma healing and recovery; the many roles that peer coaches play in helping people make life transitions; how coaches in the workplace can become conflict competent; and summaries of the latest research in peer assistance, mentoring, and coaching.
Compass: A Magazine for Peer Assistance, Mentorship, and Coaching is the only advertising-free print magazine that focuses on these three topic areas. A subscription to the magazine is included with membership in the Peer Resources Network. The cover price for an individual copy for non-members is $15.00. An online membership form is available on the Peer Resources' website. Individual copies are available from Peer Resources, 1052 Davie Street, Victoria, BC V8S 4E3; e-mail: compassmagazine@peer.ca.
You don't have to be intelligent if you can just create the impression. This can usually be accomplished by a reference to Kafka. Even if you have never read any of his - or her - works.
MENTORING CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
Mentor Program Leadership for Educators
July 12-13, 2004
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Toll-Free (800) 567-3700; Tel: (250) 595-3503
<http://www.mentors.ca/trng.html>www.mentors.ca/trng.html
info@mentors.ca
Building and Maintaining a Corporate Mentoring Program
July 19-20, 2004
University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Toll-Free (800) 567-3700; Tel: (250) 595-3503
<http://www.mentors.ca/trng.html>www.mentors.ca/trng.html
info@mentors.ca
Building and Maintaining a Corporate Mentoring Program
July 19-20, 2004
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Toll-Free (800) 567-3700; Tel: (250) 595-3503
<http://www.mentors.ca/trng.html>www.mentors.ca/trng.html
info@mentors.ca
Animating Mentoring Institute
August 27-29, 2004
Courtyard Marriot, Ottawa, Ontario
Tel: (902) 423-8199; Fax: (902) 492-8106
www.cccf-fcsge.ca
info@partnersinpractice.org
11th European Mentoring and Coaching Conference
November 17-19, 2004
Hotel Bedford, Brussels, Belgium
Call for Papers:
David Megginsonm, Professor of HRD
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield S1 1WB, United Kingdom
+44 114 225 5210
d.f.megginson@shu.ac.uk
DIFFERENT WAYS TO RECOGNIZE MENTORS
A recent ruling in a patent suit may hold a lesson for mentors. Postdoctoral biologist J. Chou claimed that her work was patented without her knowledge and took four defendants to court, including her former mentor, B. Roizman, and the University of Chicago. The judge ruled that because Chou was an employee of the university when the discovery was made, the university owned her work so she lacked standing for a suit. Chou intends to appeal the judge's ruling. (Source: Science, March 31, 2000)
Multimillionaire software developer Robert Sullivan wanted to thank his college mentor, Larry Lease, for believing in him. Sullivan took Lease's accounting course at Shasta College in 1986 and went on to be one of the first employees of what later became online business software company, Commerce One, increasing his net worth to $40 million when the company went public. Sullivan retired soon after, and a couple of months later returned to the Redding, California, campus to give Lease a $51,000, 217-horsepower Porsche convertible. (Source: People Weekly, March 13, 2000)
TWO STUDIES TO GUIDE PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Peer Resources continually scans the professional and popular literature for articles, books, videos and other useful reference materials. They provide a brief synopsis of the work as well as citation details and summaries in a searchable format on their site at www.peer.ca/SearchB.html. Each month the Peer Bulletin includes some of the many citations added every week.
Bauldry, S. and Hartmann, T.A. (2004). The promise and challenge of mentoring high-risk youth: Findings from the National Faith-Based Initiative. Philadelphia, PA: Public/Private Ventures.
This report, the third derived from research out of the National Faith-Based Initiative (NFBI), examines how faith-based organizations designed and implemented mentoring programs for high-risk youth. Focusing on four NFBI sites (in the Bronx and Brooklyn, NY; Baton Rouge, LA; and Philadelphia, PA), the report takes up three key questions: How were the best practices of community-based mentoring programs adapted to address the specific needs of faith-based mentors and high-risk youth? How did the organizations draw on the faith community to recruit volunteers, and who came forward? And finally, how successful were the mentoring relationships-how long did they last and what potential did they show?
Maher, K. (May 31, 2004). Reverse mentoring: Executives pump junior staff for the wisdom of youth. Globe and Mail, B18.
Several companies that use younger employees to mentor senior executives are briefly profiled. Such mentoring leads to valuable insights, increased performance, and reducing the gap between the generations. Four tips are presented to make reverse mentoring work: mutuality, clear objectives, respectful interaction, and acceptance of difference.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
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