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Co-Mentoring: A Block Approach

Library Leadership & Management

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Title Co-Mentoring: A Block Approach
 
Creator Deiss, Kathryn J
Totleben, Kristen
 
Subject Professional development; human resources; leadership
mentoring; relationship-buiding; power differentials
 
Description This article discusses a unique approach to a mentoring relationship. Beginning as a traditional mentoring relationship in late 2012, the authors later changed it to a co-mentoring relationship. During the ALA Midwinter Conference’s 2013 President’s Program in which Peter Block was a speaker, the author who was the mentor became re-inspired by his ideas about abundance, leadership, and community and could see powerful applications to the already formed mentoring relationship she had with the author in the mentee role. This article highlights the evolution of a mentoring relationship, transforming it from a traditional hierarchical nature to one of a “commitment to equality, deep self-awareness and intentionality” (Block’s ALA presentation). The authors explore how and why a co-mentoring relationship works for them and how it may be applicable to others interested in sustaining a mentoring relationship. Other discussion includes how this relationship affects careers and lives, with benefits that carry over to the organizations in which they work.
 
Publisher American Library Association
 
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Date 2015-01-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.tdl.org/llm/index.php/llm/article/view/7122
 
Source Library Leadership & Management; Vol 29, No 2 (2015)
1945-8851
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.tdl.org/llm/index.php/llm/article/view/7122/6321
 
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