This section describes perspectives and experiences for mentoring relationships across like and different identity groups including characteristics of race, culture, gender, and generation. Both general and specific issues in cross-race, -culture, -gender, and ‑generational mentorship are covered.
Topics include:
- Ways to approach and implement cross-difference mentoring relationships
- Making difference discussable
- Pros/Cons of same-identity mentoring relationships
- Unconscious Bias
- Implicit and explicit assumptions about identity
- Generational Sensitivity
- Generational differences in work ethics and orientation
- Work/Family Boundaries
- Multicultural Communications
- Developmental Networks
