The National ESP Board appointed an ESP Mentor Task Force, Fall 2001, to explore roles that ESP can play in developing mentoring projects and programs with ESP Chapters and States. This task is deemed timely in light of the current economy constraints and the reductions in workforce, known to many as the "revolving door syndrome" impacting CES nationally. The unique mission of ESP provides great potential for us to provide mentoring foundations and resources to members and the system. Mentor programs serve as organizational anchors for keeping outstanding professionals in CES from recruitment to successful retention and career development.
METHODOLOGY:
Surveys were sent to Chapter presidents to secure current status of ESP chapter involvement in mentoring efforts. During the 2002 Joint Council of Extension Professionals (JCEP) Regional Leadership meetings, chapter leaders received additional information on this effort. Presidents were asked to identify State Cooperative Extension Staff Development Leaders and contacts for a follow up survey.
A comprehensive electronic survey entitled, "ESP SURVEY ON MENTORING EXTENSION PROFESSIONALS" was developed and sent to CES Staff Development/ Personal and Organizational states who identified leaders and contacts to provide information on the following areas: mentor training, recruitment, matching, mentor tenure, job descriptions, successful guidelines, checklists utilized, administrative and financial supports and materials developed. The survey was divided into three critical areas (1) Characteristics of Mentoring Programs, (2) Training and Resources and (3) Roles ESP Could Fulfill In Mentoring Extension Professionals. ESP Chapter Presidents were surveyed only on the "Roles ESP Could Fulfill in Mentoring Extension Professionals."
DEFINITIONS:
Mentee and Protégé: Name given to the individual being counseled, guided, coached, influenced or taught by a tenured and professionally skilled mentor in an area of expertise.
RESPONSE RATE:
Thirty-six (36) persons were identified by Chapter ESP Presidents as the state Staff Development, Personal and Organizational Development or Extension Personnel liaison for participation in the comprehensive mentor program survey. Of those that were identified, 53% (19) responded from 16 states.
Only nine chapter presidents completed Part III, Roles ESP Could Fulfill in Mentoring Extension Professionals."
ESP Mentor Task Force Members:
Barbara Eshelman (NY),
Soneeta Grogan (MO),
Alan Ladd (KS),
Mary Ellen Blackburn (GA)
Bernadette G. Watts (NC), Chair
GENERAL FINDINGS FROM SURVEY RESPONSES:
I. CHARACTERISTICS OF MENTORING PROGRAMS
II. TRAINING AND RESOURCES
Mentor Program Handbook (Word Doucument)
Why is this of value? Serves as one state's example of how to develop a program with low management needs that recognizes the new employee as a resource to help Extension grow/change.
Office of Professional and Organizational Development
Contact Person:
Tom Gallagher, Oregon State University; tom.gallagher@orst.edu
Ohio State University Website
New Employee Resources
New Personnel Mentoring
Employee Development Network
Contact Preson:
Ohio State University
Linda Kutilek
Leader, New Personnel Development
(614) 292-2968
kutilek.1@osu.edu
Will share the details concerning these resources
THE MENTORING GROUP is a division of our not-for-profit corporation, the Coalition of Counseling Centers (CCC). CCC was founded in 1980 by Dr. Brian Jones, Dr. Linda Phillips-Jones, and some colleagues in the San Francisco Bay area.
Listed below is a small sample of what is available.
Why is this of value? All are useful tools for mentors and those who oversee a mentoring program.
Contact Person:
Linda Phillips-Jones, PhD, also a licensed psychologist, is a mentoring consultant, author, and researcher. Her dissertation in 1977 may have been the first on mentoring. She's the author of Mentors and Proteges, The New Mentors and Proteges, The Mentoring Program Design Package, and other publications. She's been quoted in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Success, Psychology Today, Reader's Digest, Entrepreneur, and Executive Female. She's featured in videos, "Mentoring that Makes a Difference" and "Mentoring: The Success Connection."
Why is this of value? An easy to understand reference for mentors
Contact Person: Bob Miller, millerrg@missouri.edu
Why is this of value? Global information on mentoring (publication and website)
Why is this of value? Collaboration with other mentoring instructors and program leaders
Contact Person: Dr. Alan Reiman
Mentoring Handbook--Carver Public Schools
Kansas National Education Association
Center for Teaching and Learning--Central Piedmont Community College
Crook County Mentoring
Handbook (67 page PDF)
Eastern Kentucky University Mentoring Handbook
Mentoring Workshop for Trainers in Health Promotion
Mentoring Section from Virginia Commonwealth University Handbook
How to
Get the Mentoring You Want--University of Michigan