mentoring in canada from the past to the present

Mentoring in Canada: TheMentoring in Canada: The

Rey Carr, Ph.D.CEO, Peer Resources

1052 Davie StreetVictoria, BC V8S 4E3

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This presentation is dedicated to the memory of my brother-in-law Frank G. Baylow, B.Eng., a world leader in OSB engineering.

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Mentoring in The Past“The Narrative of Greatness”




Socrates

Mentor to

Plato



Michael Horse

Mentored by

Jay Silverheels



Pierre Trudeau

Mentored by

Jean Marchand



Characteristics • Informal



Characteristics• Informal• Serendipitous (happy accident)• Propinquitous (nearby)• Epigenetic• Competence with big words



Characteristics• Informal• Serendipitous (happy accident)• Propinquitous (nearby)• Epigenetic• Competence with big words• Long-term• Natural chemistry• Focus on life lessons• Passing of wisdom from older to younger• Male dominated



And the wall came tumbling down: The Real Story

Canadian Mentoring Brought Down the Berlin Wall

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Mentor to



And the wall came tumbling down: The Real Story

Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919-2000)

15th Prime Minister of Canada

Mikhail Gorbachev

President of the Soviet Union

Eugene Whelan

Canadian Minister of Agriculture

Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (1923-2005)

Soviet Ambassador to Canada

Mentoring in The Present“The Narrative of Possibility”




Brian Mulroney

Mentor to

Kim Campbell



Ian Miller

Mentor to

Jill Henselwood



Ralph Klein

Mentor to

Stockwell Day



Characteristics• Deliberate• Formal• Focus on short- or long-term goals,

boundaries and expectations• Acceleration of career and personal

growth



Characteristics• Deliberate• Formal• Focus on short- or long-term goals,

boundaries and expectations• Acceleration of career and personal

growth• Increase in distributed leadership

peer group mentoring models• Cross-cubicle• Cross-gender• Passing of knowledge from

experienced to less experienced



Examples• 30,000 adult mentors matched

to 100,000 students for dropout prevention in Canada



Examples• 30,000 adult mentors matched

to 100,000 students for dropout prevention in Canada

Catherine O’Hara

Mentored by

Gilda Radner

Roy Romanow

Mentored by

Tommy Douglas



Examples• 30,000 adult mentors matched to

100,000 students for dropout prevention in Canada

• 70% of top 1000 most productive Canadian corporations provide some form of mentoring






Michael J. Fox

Mentored by

Gary David Goldberg

Bobby Orr

Mentor to

Robert Thirsk






• “Mentoring” results in 60 million hits on Google







Rick HansenMentored byTerry Fox

Phyllis YaffeMentored byPeter Grant







• 19 organizations offer software for managing mentoring








Ronnie HawkinsMentor toRobbie Robertson

Carol WelsmanMentored byChristiane Legrand








• 23 organizations provide 100’s of fee-based peer mentoring groups for executives and CEOs








• 23 organizations provide 100’s of fee-based peer mentoring groups for executives and CEOs

Alexandra WrubleskiMentored byClara Hughes

Rey CarrMentored byJohn F. Kennedy

Mentoring in The Future“The Narrative of Transformation”


Characteristics• Learning Centered

• Global, culturally and ethnically diverse

• Increase in peer mentor and reverse mentor models

• Maximize connection and relationship

• Speed mentoring, date-a-mentor software

• Transferable, generalizable

• Practical, relevant, meaningful, conscious

• Focus on action verbs (manage, discover, solve, create...)



Supporting Trends• Rise of software-based systems• Influence of social networking• Merging of coaching & mentoring• Aging population & longevity• Expertise less valued than collaboration• Lifestyle more important than career• Focus on global skills• Creativity and competence of youth• Increase in empathy, social support, &

helping self by helping others• Increase in cultural diversity• History of peacekeeping & compassion

In my experience, a mentor doesn't necessarily tell you what to do, but more importantly, tells you what they did or might do, then trusts you to draw your own conclusions and act accordingly. If you succeed, they'll take one step back, and if you screw up, they'll take one step closer. What it is they teach you...pass it on.

— Michael J. Fox

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should be thankful for those another human being. We should be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.people who rekindle the inner spirit.

— — Albert SchweitzerAlbert Schweitzer

Suddenly the word mentoring is on everyone’s lips…Suddenly the word mentoring is on everyone’s lips…Wherever you look around the world, mentoring is Wherever you look around the world, mentoring is becoming part of the solution to issues of community becoming part of the solution to issues of community or business development.or business development.

— — David ClutterbuckDavid Clutterbuck



Supporting Data• 24% of working Canadians believe the most important factor in a good work

environment is the opportunity to learn new skills.• Quality of life, social and peer support for people over 50 on the increase in

urban centres throughout Canada.• 89% of people living outside Canada rated Canada as having the best

qualities of life anywhere in the world. More than 50% said they would abandon their homelands to move to Canada if they could. The UN Quality of Life Index rates Canada as the fourth best place to live.

One of the things about life is that it often takes a long time to really get even the simplest truths. We can be sent the same message over and over and fail to see it...we often need input from a teacher, mentor, or friend who can shed light on our situation and show us what we need to do, where we can go deeper, and how we can change.

— Lisa Oz

Mentoring in The Future“Your Own Narrative”


• Recall your earliest memory of someone that you might call a non-family mentor.

• What was it that you learned from that person?

• In what way(s) have you put that learning into practice in your current life/work?



• Think of a person currently that you might or do refer to as a mentor.

• What is it that you are learning from that person?

• In what way(s) are you using that learning in your current life and/or work?



• Think of a person you would like to have as a mentor.

• What would that person gain from being your mentor?

• How will you put what you’ve learned about mentoring into practice?

Mentoring in The FutureAdditional Resources


1. Norway2. Australia3. Iceland4. Canada5. Ireland6. Netherlands7. Sweden8. France9. Switzerland10. Japan11. Luxembourg12. Finland13. United States14. Austria

15. Spain16. Denmark17. Belgium18. Italy19. Liechtenstein20. New Zealand21. United Kingdom22. Germany23. Singapore24. Hong Kong, China (SAR)25. Greece26. Korea (Republic of)27. Israel28. Andorra

29. Slovenia30. Brunei Darussalam31. Kuwait32. Cyprus33. Qatar34. Portugal35. United Arab Emirates36. Czech Republic37. Barbados38. Malta51. Cuba85. Ukraine129. South Africa182. Niger

Source: http://hdrstats.undp.org/en/countries/country_fact_sheets/cty_fs_MLT.html

Rank of Nations According to U.N.’s Human Development Index



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