APTA

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APTAs MEMBERS MENTORING MEMBERS

• Be A Mentor
• Seek A Mentor

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Mentoring.
is an active process. The mentor and mentee
enter into a relationship. The mentor agrees to
serve as a guide, a facilitator, a teacher,
to someone else. You can have influence on the
future of this profession and this organization
by being a mentor. Bella J. May, PT, EdD,
FAPTA
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WHY A MENTORING PROGRAM?

• Leadership Development
• Career Development
• Professional Development
• Enhance Recruitment and Retention Efforts
• Growth in Physical Therapy Practice, Education,
  and Research
• Model Professionalism

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WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
Those helped by mentoring often go on to become
excellent mentors themselves, passing on the best
from their own experience.
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THE PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY

• Physical therapy is... a community, with its
  own customs, its own social contract. Members of
  that community pride themselves on theirtribal
  customs. Their tribal behavior is acquired
  largely by intellectual and cultural osmosis from
  their mentors and their peers, rather than from
  textbooks.
• Carl Djerassi, Inventor of "The Pill" and author
  of Cantor's Dilemma

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WHAT DOES MENTORING LOOK LIKE

• Traditional -- strong, enduring relationship
  between a well-established professional a more
  junior colleague incorporates multiple roles
  sponsor, guide, coach, role model, counselor
• Sponsor -- may use his or her influence for the
  other's entry and advancement
• Role model -- someone whom the protégé can admire
  and seek to emulate
• Counselor -- provides counsel and moral support
  in times of stress
• Coach -- encourages

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HOW DO WE MENTOR?

• The key to successful mentoring is the
  mentor-protégé relationship
• Successful mentors fulfill five career functions
• introduce protégés to new opportunities
• coach sponsor them
• protect challenge them
• The success of mentoring is determined by
  individual mentors and protégés who voluntarily
  enter into the relationship and the behaviors and
  characteristics they bring to the relationship

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HOW TO BETTER MENTOR EACH OTHER

• Be collaborative
• Have joint accountability
• Have respect be honest
• Identify encourage protégés strengths
• Keep goals in forefront

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SUCCESSFUL VOLUNTEER DEVELOPMENT

• SUCCESSFUL MENTORING
• Leads to an upbeat, enthusiastic and creative
  atmosphere for learning
• Provides access to professional networking
  opportunities with colleagues
• Encourages knowledge acquisition through
  continuing education opportunities and conference
  attendance
• Provides political connections
• Assists in developing understanding of the
  expectations of the leadership position in the
  context of the organization

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WHAT MAKES A GOOD MENTOR

• "A great mentor has a knack for making us think
  we are better than we think we are. They force us
  to have a good opinion of ourselves, let us know
  they believe in us. They make us get more out of
  ourselves, and once we learn how good we really
  are, we never settle for anything less than our
  very best."
• The Prometheus Foundation

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A GOOD MENTOR

• Is responsive
• Is a good listener
• Is open honest
• Is approachable available
• Is a good problem-solver
• Sets expectations
• Communicates
• Has genuine interest in helping protégé
• Has the time expertise

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BENEFITS FOR THE MENTOR

• Share expertise
• Expand professional network
• Obtain fresh perspective
• Cement role as subject-matter expert
• Leadership role
• Renewed enthusiasm for profession
• Satisfaction of knowing they have helped shape
  someones career

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A GOOD PROTÉGÉ

• Knows his/her needs and goals
• Defines the relationship boundaries
• Ensures the time commitment
• Is prepared
• Is appreciative
• Has the desire to grow
• Is a good listener
• Initiates the contact

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HOW THE APTA PROGRAM WORKS

• Member Benefit
• For APTA Members Only
• Online
• 24/7 Access
• Self-Selection of Mentors
• APTA Does Not Match
• Flexible
• One Question or Long-Term Relationship

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HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS, contd

• Recruitment throughout all Associations
  membership
• Database of mentors updated continually
• The most up-to-date information is available
  online!
• Hard copy directories published periodically
• Not Just Top Down Program
• Peer to Peer
• Experienced to Student or Recent Grad
• And Vice Versa

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BENEFITS OF SELF-SELECTION

• Increases flexibility
• Increases sense of personal ownership
• Moves away from top-down process
• Opens up the talent pool
• Increases number of members who can be mentors
  and protégés

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BE A MENTOR
"Mentoring is a supportive learning relationship
between a caring individual who shares knowledge,
experience and wisdom with another individual who
is ready and willing to benefit from this
exchange, to enrich their professional journey."
Suzanne Faure, Introduction to mentoring IM/IT
community
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BECOMING AN APTA MENTOR

• Must be APTA member
• Complete application form
• Online form to sign up and edit listing
• Information compiled into database
• Online search criteria include Name, PT or PTA,
  State, Area of Expertise, Keyword

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ONLINE SIGN UP
Sandy Ridout
1111 N Fairfax St, Alexandria, VA 22314
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ONLINE SIGN UP, contd
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ONLINE SIGN UP, contd
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ONLINE SIGN UP, contd
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SEEK A MENTOR

• Must be APTA Member
• Search online directory
• Contact selected mentor
• Protégés should be
• clear about their professional goals and career
  objectives
• able to articulate their expectations to the
  prospective mentor.
• Remember--the mentoring relationship is a
  voluntary process your first choice may not be
  available.

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ONLINE SEARCH
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ONLINE SEARCH RESULTS
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MENTORING CULTURE

• Thinking Up, Down, and Sideways
• All levels of the membershipfrom the leaders to
  the new gradvalue and practice mentoring
• Traditional relationships--mentors sponsor
  protégés and help them navigate leadership
  career choices
• Peer-to-peer relationships
• Reverse mentoring in which an experienced PT
  seeks mentoring from an experience-subordinate
  but who has training the experienced PT is lacking

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COMPONENT MENTORING

• In the ideal mentoring culture, mentoring moves
  from being an isolated act of a few to an overt
  and integral part of the entire organization and
  organizational culture.
• Developing a Mentoring Culture, Triple Creek
  Associates, Inc., http//www.3creek.com/resource/M
  entoringCulture.pdf

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COMPONENT MENTORING

• APTAs Members Mentoring Members program is a
  ready-made tool for chapter- or section-level
  mentoring
• Share many mentoring objectives
• membership recruitment retention
• leadership development
• conveying professional values.
• Established mentoring infrastructure

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WHAT APTA PROVIDES

• Infrastructureonline sign up, search, etc.
  already in place
• Reports specific to a chapter or section to
  evaluate outcomes
• Mentor recognition, training, and publicity on
  the national level

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WHAT THE COMPONENT PROVIDES

• Promotes program at the component level
• Provides recognition of mentors at component
  activities
• Assists mentors and protégés
• Measures outcomes specific to the component
• Designates a component-level mentoring liaison to
  APTA

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APTAs MEMBERS MENTORING MEMBERS
Not only does this program help the protégé with
advice from an experienced person in an area of
practice, but the mentor grows through the
relationship as well! I have been challenged with
very interesting questions from my protégé.
An
APTA MMM Mentor

• Be A Mentor
• Seek A Mentor

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REFERENCES

• Daloz, LA. Mentor Guiding the Journey of Adult
  Learners. San Francisco, CA Jossey-Bass 1999
• Davis, C. Mentoring in Residency Programs Making
  the Critical Connection for Maturation
• Gandy, J Mentoring. Orthopaedic Practice,
  199356-9
• MentorInk Newsletter. Corporate Mentoring
  Solutions Inc
• Triple Creek Associates

10/2005