Mentoring Practices and Principles for Growing Students to be Successful Business Leaders

Mentoring Students To Create Professional

Business LeadersDr. Edward D. Brown

Alabama State University

ACDSP Conference 2015

OVERVIEW

• Benefits of Focused Mentoring

• Approaches to Effectively Mentor Others

•Mentoring Techniques That Enhance Student and Instructor Success

• Summarization and Conclusion@ACBSPAccredited #ACBSP2015

Areas of Focus: Benefits of Mentoring

• Does it improve Performance, Promotion ability, and adds value?

• How does it eliminate the Velvet and Glass Ceiling?

• Describe the kind of mentoring model/structure needed to create successful professional ethical leaders?

• How do you start and sustain a successful structure?

Areas of Focus: Benefits of Mentoring

• If rigor, relevancy, and relationships are of key importance to mentoring, what should be the proper mixture of each in the model? Can one be absent? If so, will we still have a strong program?

• Will such a structure meet the needs of the business world?

• Describe the roles of the mentee and the protégée in this kind of structure/model?

Areas of Focus: Benefits of Mentoring

• Describe what your final product (mentee) should look like, sound like, and be able to do.

• What programs/organizations could be used to describe this process or its output?

Approaches to Effectively Mentor Others

Definition of Mentoring

•The process of consistently sharing personal knowledge, skills, and experiences to encourage, support, and guide for a multi-generational impact• (100 Black Men of America, 2013).

Definition of Advising

•Advising: Giving counsel; offer an opinion, recommendation or suggestion as a guide to action, conduct, etc. The careful deliberation or consideration; or consultation. (Premium Dictionary.com)

Definition of Mentorvising

•The process of consistently sharing personal and professional knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) to encourage a successful outcome. (Brown, 2014, 2015).

Mentoring Signature Program, 100 BMOA

• Mentoring Across a Lifetime is a research-based, signature program of the 100 Black Men of America.

• The Mentoring ModeloTargets youth and adults of all agesoFocuses on the critical needs of

disenfranchised youth oProvides familial and professional

support, education, and empowerment for adults

“What they see is what they’ll be”

A Successful Mentoring Process

• Must result in the mentee developing strong, positive character

• Must result in being able to successfully compete academically and professionally

• Must be able to replicate positive results

“What they see is what they’ll be”

Business Principle and Mentoring Types

• Total Quality Management (TQM) arena.

• Five Mentoring Types

oTag -Team

o On-line Mentoring

o Peer

o Group

o One-to-One

Our Basic Job Is to Produce Professional and Ethical Leaders

Faculty Members: Mentors by Default?

• Select the area(s) that is (are) part of your departmental role?

• Advising students• Mentoring students• Improving student retention• Improving student success

The Intersection: Advising and Mentoring

• Advising: The careful deliberation or consideration; or consultation.

• Mentor: A wise, trust and influential counselor or teacher or senior person.

• Advising + Mentoring = Careful deliberation or consideration by a wise and trusted influential person.• Mentor-vising or• Mentorvising

Mentoring Techniques and Skills That Enhance Student and Instructor Success

Competency Knowledge Model

• Technical Knowledgeo “What do you know?”

• Behavioral Knowledgeo “How do you use what

you know?”

Mentoring Is A Lifetime Affair

• The Triple “Rs” [RRR]

• Relationship• Relevance• Rigor

• BALANCE is the KEY

The Triple–M Model

MENTOR

MINDSET

MATCH

Summarization

Conclusion: The Model Has Value

• This model has value to the experienced teacher, manager or business mentor

• May reduce the significant amounts of time spent mentoring and supervising others on basic issues

• New individuals may be more confident and operate in less uncertainty

• Noticeable payoffs have been that the individual becomes more responsible for his/her own growth and that of the organization

The Secret and Most Powerful Weapon

• -- “If you don’t know better, you can’t do better”• -John Hope Bryant

Contact Information

• Dr. Edward D. Brown

• Associate Professor

• Alabama State University

• College of Business Administration

• 915 S. Jackson Ave, Montgomery, AL 36111

• Office: 334-229-4753

• E-mail: [email protected]