Identifying solutions to creating and training professional and ethical business leaders’ from student populations continues to be a challenge. This study presents promising and practical solutions using a model based on research and applications.

1. Mentoring Students To Create
Professional Business Leaders
Dr. Edward D. Brown
Alabama State University
ACDSP Conference 2015

2. OVERVIEW
• Benefits of Focused Mentoring
• Approaches to Effectively Mentor Others
• Mentoring Techniques That Enhance Student and
Instructor Success
• Summarization and Conclusion
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3. Areas of Focus: Benefits of Mentoring
• Does it improve Performance, Promotion ability, and adds
value?
• How does it eliminate the Velvet and Glass Ceiling?
• Describe the kind of mentoring model/structure needed
to create successful professional ethical leaders?
• How do you start and sustain a successful structure?

4. Areas of Focus: Benefits of Mentoring
• If rigor, relevancy, and relationships are of key
importance to mentoring, what should be the proper
mixture of each in the model? Can one be absent? If
so, will we still have a strong program?
• Will such a structure meet the needs of the business
world?
• Describe the roles of the mentee and the protégée in
this kind of structure/model?

5. Areas of Focus: Benefits of Mentoring
• Describe what your final product
(mentee) should look like, sound like,
and be able to do.
• What programs/organizations could be
used to describe this process or its
output?

6. Approaches to Effectively Mentor Others

7. Definition of Mentoring
•The process of consistently
sharing personal knowledge,
skills, and experiences to
encourage, support, and guide for
a multi-generational impact
• (100 Black Men of America, 2013).

8. Definition of Advising
•Advising: Giving counsel; offer an
opinion, recommendation or
suggestion as a guide to action,
conduct, etc. The careful
deliberation or consideration; or
consultation. (Premium Dictionary.com)

9. Definition of Mentorvising
•The process of consistently
sharing personal and professional
knowledge, skills, and abilities
(KSA) to encourage a successful
outcome. (Brown, 2014, 2015).

10. Mentoring Signature Program, 100 BMOA
• Mentoring Across a Lifetime is a
research-based, signature program of
the 100 Black Men of America.
• The Mentoring Model
o Targets youth and adults of all ages
oFocuses on the critical needs of
disenfranchised youth
o Provides familial and professional
support, education, and empowerment
for adults
“What they see is what they’ll be”

11. A Successful Mentoring Process
• Must result in the mentee developing
strong, positive character
• Must result in being able to
successfully compete academically
and professionally
• Must be able to replicate positive
results
“What they see is what they’ll be”

12. Business Principle and Mentoring Types
• Total Quality Management
(TQM) arena.
• Five Mentoring Types
oTag -Team
o On-line Mentoringo Peer
o Group
o One-to-One

13. Our Basic Job Is to Produce Professional and
Ethical Leaders

14. Faculty Members: Mentors by Default?
• Select the area(s) that is (are) part
of your departmental role?
• Advising students
• Mentoring students
• Improving student retention
• Improving student success

15. The Intersection: Advising and Mentoring
• Advising: The careful
deliberation or
consideration; or
consultation.
• Mentor: A wise, trust and
influential counselor or
teacher or senior person.
• Advising + Mentoring = Careful
deliberation or consideration by
a wise and trusted influential
person.
• Mentor-vising or
• Mentorvising

16. Mentoring Techniques and Skills That
Enhance Student and Instructor Success

17. Competency Knowledge Model
• Technical Knowledge
o “What do you know?”
• Behavioral Knowledge
o “How do you use what
you know?”

18. Mentoring Is A Lifetime Affair
• The Triple “Rs” [RRR]
• Relationship
• Relevance
• Rigor
• BALANCE is the KEY

19. The Triple–M Model
MENTOR
MINDSET
MATCH

20. Summarization

21. Conclusion: The Model Has Value
• This model has value to the experienced
teacher, manager or business mentor
• May reduce the significant amounts of time
spent mentoring and supervising others on
basic issues
• New individuals may be more confident and
operate in less uncertainty
• Noticeable payoffs have been that the
individual becomes more responsible for
his/her own growth and that of the
organization

22. The Secret and Most Powerful Weapon
•-- “If you don’t
know better, you
can’t do better”
• -John Hope Bryant

23. Contact Information
• Dr. Edward D. Brown
• Associate Professor
• Alabama State University
• College of Business Administration
• 915 S. Jackson Ave, Montgomery, AL 36111
• Office: 334-229-4753
• E-mail: ebrown@alasu.edu