Creating and Sustaining a Collaborative Mentorship Team

<p class=ql-align-justify> In response to changes in the workforce scholars are calling for mentoring that is more fluid flexible and responsive to the needs of diverse groups of individuals whether culturally (Kochan & Pascarelli 2012; Kochan Searby George & Mitchell Edge 2015) or intergenerationally (Thorpe 2012) diverse. With these changes there are greater demands for intergenerational and intercultural collaboration and mentoring. One response to these changes is to take a more collaborative interactive and transformational approach to mentoring. In response this book provides a model for collaborative mentoring based on best-practice grounded in theory and research and framed by the Dynamic Model of Collaborative Mentorship. Each chapter provides a description of one of the five components of the mentoring model which are grounded in theory and include: agency values engagement patterns and roles. Individual chapters provide resources prompts and questions to guide reflection and suggested readings. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>This book is authored by four individuals who work research and write as a team. The book itself is the product of their mentoring research as well as their mentoring practice in action. It is current and timely focusing on team processes which are collaborative dynamic reflective and continuously developing and evolving.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p>