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Ladder Mentoring and the GSA Mentoring Task Force

Ladder Mentoring and the GSA Mentoring Task Force. Ellen Idler Emory University ESPO/GSA Task Force on Mentoring Symposium Gerontological Society of America Meetings Boston, MA November 2011. GSA Task Force on Mentoring. Society-wide Task Force initiated in 2009

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Ladder Mentoring and the GSA Mentoring Task Force

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  1. Ladder Mentoring and the GSA Mentoring Task Force Ellen Idler Emory University ESPO/GSA Task Force on Mentoring Symposium Gerontological Society of America Meetings Boston, MA November 2011

  2. GSA Task Force on Mentoring Society-wide Task Force initiated in 2009 Members represent all sections Ellen Idler, Chair, Emory University, BSS Patricia Archbold, American Academy of Nursing, HS Deborah Carr, Rutgers University, BSS Lois Evans, University of Pennsylvania, HS Deborah Gold, Duke University, BSS Lynne Hodgson, Quinnipiac University, BSS Nancy Hooyman, University of Washington, SRPP Gretchen Luhr, Portland State University, ESPO Terry Mills, Morehouse College, BSS Kathleen Wilber, University of Southern California, SRPP Linda Harootyan, GSA Judie Lieu, GSA

  3. GSA’s Commitment to Mentoring An organization devoted to the study of aging and the life course, since 1948 Mentoring and being mentored should be career-long activities All GSA members can BE mentors and should SEEK mentoring at all stages of their career

  4. Ladder Mentoring Structure of organizational mentoring should resemble a close-runged ladder It may be hard to imagine yourself at the top, but the next rung is within your reach GSA is an interdisciplinary organization, so there are many ladders in proximity to each other

  5. Ladder Mentoring Many people are on these ladders, at all stages of their careers Everyone has someone just ahead of them, on that next rung up, who has some career knowledge to offer Everyone also has someone just behind them, who has something to learn We should see ourselves on both the giving and receiving end of mentoring relationships throughout our careers

  6. GSA Mentoring Opportunities GSA New Member Meet and Greet GSA Fellows Mentor Program Mentoring Consultancies (SOLD OUT!) Task Force on Minority Issues Mentorship Award Presentation Interest Group Meetings GSA Fellows & International Reception ESPO Wine and Cheese BSS Fellows/ESPO Mentoring Workshop

  7. GSA Mentoring Consultancies Program now in its 5th year at GSA 3-5 junior scholars per table, with senior facilitator N=59 in 2010 Discuss research and publication challenges in structured way Mentors are Fellows of GSA, editors and members of the editorial boards of GSA journals, and GSA section leaders Evaluations rated it 4.85 out of 5; 100% would recommend to a friend Some comments! “I felt that having the opportunity to receive feedback from people at different levels in their careers was very helpful” “They thought of angles I had no idea about” “I enjoyed the opportunity to practice articulating challenges” “Thank you for offering this discussion session. This is my first time at the GSA conference and the mentoring was the key to getting the conference approved” “The give and take within the group was very inspiring and informative” “Wonderful program! Better than last year’s. I am looking forward to next year’s.”

  8. Rationale for GSA Membership Survey 2010 Members of the new Task Force were known for their mentoring, but how widespread was it in the society as a whole? Appeared to be many mentoring activities at the annual meeting, but were all of them necessary, helpful, valued, worth the effort? Did GSA members want more, or different mentoring activities? Was there support for a formal matching mechanism to pair mentors and mentees?

  9. Results of GSA Membership Survey 2010 More than half of the respondents were GSA members who had attended GSA meetings only 1-5 times in the past Interest Groups were mentioned as locations where mentoring took place at least 12 times in our survey responses

  10. Rationale for Interest Group Survey, 2011 A “natural place” for mentoring to occur, because Interest Groups: bring together junior and senior members small size facilitates personal contacts highly selected to target similar research interests Informal and formal mentoring already happening there chance to share practices with other Interest Groups promote mentoring and promote the Interest Group at the same time

  11. Results of Interest Group Survey, 2011

  12. Naturally Occurring Mentoring Experiences Goal of the Task Force: to promote settings where mentoring will arise in a natural, unforced way Process of selection that brings like-minded people with similar interests together N-O-M-E G-N-O-M-E It’s in our DNA!

  13. GSA and Mentoring GSA should surpass all other organizations in the quality of its mentoring What do we study? aging wisdom generativity the life course intergenerational relations growth curves and trajectories building bridges across disciplines Mentoring provides multilevel and longitudinal benefits

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