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Glossary
Introduction
Leadership Principle: Challenging and transforming traditional views of leadership
Leadership Principle: Value diversity and lived experience
Leadership Principle: Nothing about us without us
Leadership Principle: Lead by lifting others up
Leadership Principle: Care for self to care for community
Safe leadership
Mentoring
What are the benefits of being a mentor?
- Improves your communication and personal skills
- Develops your leadership and management qualities
- Reinforces your own skills and knowledge of your subject(s)
- Increases your confidence and motivation
- Engaging in a volunteering opportunity is valued by employers [9]
- Provides opportunity to reflect on your own practice
- Enhances job satisfaction
- Develops professional relationships
- Uses your experience, making it available to a new person
- You will often receive more than you give
9. Mohawk College. (n.d.). 10 benefits of being a mentor. Mohawk College. https://www.mohawkcollege.ca/about/news/blogs/10-benefits-of-being-a-mentor