Peer Mentoring in South Africa

Management guru Cy Charney discusses the initiative to encourage self-directed team learning at Spoornet, the South African Railways. The enmpowered learning process brought about a cultural change in management-worker (union) relations and provided a platform for training people who had few opportunities for training beforehand.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Peer
• Mentoring
• training
• learning
• Cy
• Charney
• teams
• self-directed
• empowerment
• and
• Associates

[ArlanBerglas]

A program can be as simple as a small act of kindness that is performed yearly and conceivably could only take a few minutes once a year. As an example, if a student in a classroom wanted to be in charge of classroom beautification and they brought a flower to the classroom once a year That qualifies.

[rhonacharney]

Hello Arlan,

What you are doing sounds very interesting. How can I make contact with you?

[ArlanBerglas]

Our concept is fairly simple. WTW is giving grants to individuals, families and organizations that want to make a positive difference in other peoples lives. First, an interested party is introduced to their own personal volunteer mentor that will help them (over the internet) develop a program of their own design based upon their personality and talents.

[ArlanBerglas]

We are forming global networks of collaboration between groups and individuals involved with: human rights, ecology and animal concerns, peace and nonviolence, creating ethical economic systems, creating cultures of caring, self-sustaining green communities, personal and societal health and transformation, and many others whose work concerns the interests of literally billions of people and other life on our planet.

[ArlanBerglas]

Working with an extraordinarily accomplished team, we have begun the process of building an unprecedented critical mass of individuals, organizations and coalitions whose efforts to create a caring world will be highly visible and accessible.

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A wise commentary on how leaders can improve their results by trusting and treating people as invaluable resources.

This is a model that can be implemented globally provided every player involved is committed to self learning and WANTS TO IMPROVE