This handout outlines some potential next step actions listed below here and resources links to material that will support you in understanding how to be effective in a diverse mentor/mentee relationship.
Next Step Actions
Be a Mentor to someone from an underrepresented group.
Advocate for underrepresented talent and support their career growth.
Create a personal development plan and seek diverse input from others.
Enhance self-awareness; take time to understand your values and biases.
Share more about yourself with your Mentee and learn about them as well.
Set specific goals related to the mentor/mentee relationship.
Identify at least one action that you can take when mentoring across lines of difference. Insert your response in the “Assignment Submission” section provided.
This handout outlines some potential next steps and offers resources to support you with key insight to strengthen your mentor/mentee relationship.
Your assignment is to identify one action that you would like to take as of result of what you learned during this lesson. You can use of the suggest next steps, commit to watching one of the resource videos or develop your own action!
Submit one action that you are willing to take in the “Assignment Submission” section above.
Read the following quote from Audre Lorde’s essay “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”:
“For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.”
Think about what this quote means to you and how it relates to the necessity of using decolonizing and radical leadership approaches in the workplace.
Write 1 way that your leadership style does or does not align with this quote.
