Leadership Mentor Program Meeting #1 with Mentor
Leadership Mentor Program – Meeting #1 with Mentor
Example Agenda
“Leadership is a dynamic influence relationship among leaders and collaborators
who intend positive changes that reflect their mutual purpose.”
- Establish rapport with your mentees
- Goal Setting
- Explore strengths and connection to leadership
- Personal philosophy of leadership
- Involvement
1. Introduce your role as a mentor and share a little about yourself
2. Goal setting - ask mentees to share their goals for mentor program and general goals regarding leadership
3. Review assignment - Ask students to share feedback received from others about their leadership and strengths. What did you learn from others about your leadership and strengths? Who did you pick to ask? Was it difficult to find someone to ask? How do your strengths related to leadership?
4. Review definition of leadership - ask students to share their personal philosophy of leadership
5. Involvement
What are you already involved in?
What are your experiences?
What do you hope to be involved in? (aspirations)
6. Question to think about for next meeting: Identify ways you (or someone else) demonstrate leadership and be able to describe why you would categorize it as leadership.
7. Schedule next mentor session
Leadership Mentor Program – Meeting #2 with Mentor
Example Agenda
“Leadership is a dynamic influence relationship among leaders and collaborators
who intend positive changes that reflect their mutual purpose.”
- Mutual Purpose/Collaborator
- Leaders and Collaborators
- Check in - What have you been involved in since we last met? New experiences, insights, aspirations?
- Invite students to share their insights and reflections about any of the Student Involvement and Leadership Series events that they have attended since last meeting
- Schedule next mentor session
Discussion Questions
Leader- What do you think of when you hear this word?What role does a leader play in a collaborative relationship?
Collaborator - What do you think of when you hear this word?What role does a collaborator play in a collaborative relationship?
Why do you think we used the word collaborator instead of follower in our definition of leadership?
An aspect of our definition of leadership that is based on the emergent paradigm of leadership and Joseph Rost’s definition of leadership is that leaders and collaborators work “together” for a mutual purpose.
That is a key concept in that collaborators participate with leaders of their own free will because of the influence of the leader. At any time the collaborators can leave this relationship, it isn’t like a management relationship where there is a manager and subordinate and contractual hierarchy.
Knowing that leaders and collaborators chose to be in a collaborative relationship, do you think their roles are set? Or do you think circumstances could allow for the leaders to act as collaborators and for the collaborators to act as the leaders in this relationship?
Can you share some examples of situations you have participated in or observed where a leader (maybe by title, role within a group, etc) took on the role as collaborator and allowed for a collaborator to be the leader within a group or organization?
Examples could be:
- RA who empowers resident to lead a project on floor
- Student organization officer who lets a general member take the lead on a project and assists them instead of running the event, committee or activity.
- Feel free to use other examples.
If/when you are in the role of being a leader, how would you engage with your residents, members to make them collaborators? How might you move from the role of leader to collaborator to empower other members of the group?
Leadership Mentor Program – Meeting #3 with Mentor
Example Agenda
“Leadership is a dynamic influence relationship among leaders and collaborators
who intend positive changes that reflect their mutual purpose.”
- Process of positive change
- Identify what positive change is important to you
- Check in – what have you been involved in since we last met? New experiences, insights, aspirations
- Invite students to share their insights and reflections about any of the Student Involvement and Leadership Series events that they have attended since last meeting
- Schedule next mentor meeting
Discussion Questions
If you had the ability to get rid of any injustice, what would it be?
What positive changes are you currently working towards/do you want to work towards in the future?
What empowers you to make a difference? What are you passionate about?
Who is your role model and why? Do you consider yourself a role model and who looks up to you?
Can you think of situations when you were working with a group to make a positive change and obstacles arose? What were the obstacles and how did you overcome the obstacles?
What clubs, organizations, classes, internship, careers, experiences, etc. do you think would most closely align with what is important for you in terms of making positive change in the world…where do you hope to be a part of the leadership process?