The Leadership Training Activity Book: 50 Exercises

 Handout 45.2: Roles and Responsibilities of Protégés and Mentors

 Handout 45.3: A Plan for Finding a Mentor

EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES

Posters of well-known leaders (men and women)

Skeletal outline of the human body

ROOM SET-UP

Tables and chairs arranged in a semicircle

Comments

Most successful leaders benefited from having a mentor. Some participants might have

had someone who influenced them or provided coaching. Some will say their mentor

was their boss. In this exercise, accept whatever experiences they have had and en-

courage them to review those experiences as you present this model of mentors.

VARIATION

One way to vary the finding-a-mentor exercise is to turn it into a creative art project.

Each person needs a large and clear space at a table. Give each person poster board

and a skeletal outline of a human body. Place a pile of craft sticks (i.e., popsicle sticks)

and glue sticks near each person.

Step by step (as outlined in Handout 45.3, A Plan for Finding a Mentor), participants

add sticks to their mentor’s “body.”

1. Three professional goals on sticks are glued on the body’s trunk.


2. Desired characteristics are glued on each finger of the left hand.


3. Additional preferences are glued on each finger of the right hand.


4. The names of places to look for a mentor are glued on the left foot.


5. The name of possible mentors are glued on the right foot.

Participants should help one another identify barriers to pursuing these plans and sug-

gest potential mentors.

This graphic representation can be posted by participants in a place where they

will be visually reminded of their plan to get a mentor.

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