Comments on: Growing Leaders: Mentoring is Critical http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=548 The John A. Hartford Foundation blog Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:02:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Chris Langston http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=548&cpage=1#comment-84 Chris Langston Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:51:06 +0000 http://www.jhartfound.org/blog/?p=548#comment-84 Over the 20 years of my career so far, the general understanding of mentoring is one of the biggest changes I've seen. When I started my academic career I'm sure I didn't want to be mentored and, perhaps understandably, none of my colleagues were reaching out. Now, I think people starting their careers understand much better the advantages of having a mentor to help guide developing into different roles. In one training project, I participated in a "mentoring bootcamp" aimed at ensuring that mentors would be able to support their mentees. When I started my second career by taking a post doc position at Penn and the Philadelphia Geriatric Center, I had the privilege to work with an outstanding mentor and man, Powell Lawton, PhD. Powell was an incredibly kind, gentle man, committed to improving the lives of older adults and an inspiration as a productive scientist and leader until his death in 2001 at 77. http://www.abramsoncenter.org/PRI/staff/MPLawton-obit.htm Over the 20 years of my career so far, the general understanding of mentoring is one of the biggest changes I’ve seen. When I started my academic career I’m sure I didn’t want to be mentored and, perhaps understandably, none of my colleagues were reaching out.

Now, I think people starting their careers understand much better the advantages of having a mentor to help guide developing into different roles. In one training project, I participated in a “mentoring bootcamp” aimed at ensuring that mentors would be able to support their mentees.

When I started my second career by taking a post doc position at Penn and the Philadelphia Geriatric Center, I had the privilege to work with an outstanding mentor and man, Powell Lawton, PhD. Powell was an incredibly kind, gentle man, committed to improving the lives of older adults and an inspiration as a productive scientist and leader until his death in 2001 at 77. http://www.abramsoncenter.org/PRI/staff/MPLawton-obit.htm

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