Our partnership created multiple training resources with a goal of helping mentors with SCI use transformational leadership principles to interact with their mentees.

Handbook

Transformational Leadership: A Workshop for SCI Peer Mentors

We created a workshop handbook for SCI peer mentors to learn and use the transformational leadership principles.

Handbook for Transformational Leadership

transformational_mentoring_handbook.pdf

Video

After watching this video, peer mentors will know and understand:

Section 1

Physical Activity Knowledge In the first section of videos, the peer-mentor is presented:

  • The latest physical activity knowledge for people with a spinal cord injury;
  • Where a person with a SCI can get information on sport participation, as well as the resources available to them if they want to use sport as a way of staying active;
  • Some of the barriers people with physical disabilities face when it comes to being active, as well as some coping strategies they can employ in order to overcome those barriers;

Section 2

Transformation Leadership Presentation 

In the second section, the peer-mentor is presented with a brief video on transformational leadership; a leadership style that looks to maximize the quality of the relationship with others. Transformational leaders empower those who they lead and encourage them to go beyond what they thought was originally possible.

Acting Living Leaders – Transformational Leadership

Transformational Leadership

Quick Reference Guide

Here is a summary of the four Transformational Leadership behaviours and how you can use them during interactions with your mentees.

Idealized Influence
  1. Be a positive role model
  2. Lead by example
  3. Be confident, energetic, engaging and respectful during interactions
Inspirational Motivation
  1. Encourage mentees to leave their comfort zones and explore their abilities
  2. Let mentees know you believe in them
  3. Challenge mentees to get meaningful and challenging goals that promote personal growth
Intellectual Stimulation
  1. Encourage mentees to tackle old problems in new ways
  2. Inspire mentees to think critically about their way of doing things and to share new ideas
  3. Help mentees develop their own creative solutions to problems
Individualized Consideration
  1. Treat each mentee as a unique, valued individual
  2. Listen carefully
  3. Give specific, personalized feedback or advice that suits your mentee’s individual needs
     
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Relevant citations

  • Shaw, R. B., McBride, C. B., Casemore, S., & Martin Ginis, K. A. (2018). Transformational mentoring: Leadership behaviors of spinal cord injury peer mentors. Rehabilitation Psychology, 63(1), 131-140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rep0000176
  • Martin Ginis, K. A., Shaw, R. B., Stork, M. J., Battalova, A., & McBride, C. B. (2018). Pilot study of a training program to enhance transformational leadership in Spinal Cord Injury Peer Mentors. Spinal cord series and cases, 4, 34. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41394-018-0065-8
  • Beauchamp, M. R., Scarlett, L. J., Ruissen, G. R., Connelly, C. E., McBride, C. B., Casemore, S., & Martin Ginis, K. A. (2016). Peer mentoring of adults with spinal cord injury: a transformational leadership perspective. Disability and rehabilitation, 38(19), 1884–1892. https://doi.org/10.3109/09638288.2015.1107773