The Global Leadership Mentoring Community: building capacity across seven global regions

Capacity building in nurse educators in a Global Leadership Mentoring Community

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship ◽

10.1515/ijnes-2021-0030 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Dorette Sugg Welk ◽

Ellen B. Buckner ◽

Beth Desaretz Chiatti ◽

Salima Farooq ◽

Claudia K. Y. Lai ◽

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Keyword(s):

Nurse Educators ◽

Global Leadership ◽

Nurse Educator ◽

Mentoring Relationships ◽

Main Role ◽

Key Characteristics ◽

Global Presence ◽

Leadership Mentoring ◽

One Year ◽

International Interactions

Abstract Globally, nurse educators participate in the three main role activities of teaching, scholarship, and service. Matching for different global locations and career stages, 12 mentor–mentee pairs completed a one-year coordinated virtual program through Sigma Theta Tau International’s Global Leadership Mentoring Community and mentees reported building their nurse educator capacities. The authors describe factors that potentially influence international mentoring such as language, time, technology, and key characteristics of mentoring relationships. Growth in educator roles occurred in the contexts of the culture of academe itself and Boyer’s definitions of scholarship. Consistent with Sigma’s vision statement, nurse educators have a global presence and responsibility to prepare competent nurses who can advance the health of the world’s people. Readers may benefit for future planning of mentoring activities to build capacities in nurse educator roles through international interactions.

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Building Capacity: The Case for Values-based Operations

Metropolitan Universities ◽

10.18060/23719 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 78-91

Author(s):

Joseph Allen ◽

Sheridan Trent ◽

Sara Woods

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Focus Groups ◽

Community Engagement ◽

Task Force ◽

Community Building ◽

Data Gathering ◽

Organizational Capacity ◽

Building Capacity ◽

The University ◽

Selection Of

Since the opening of the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s (UNO) Community Engagement Center in 2014, both university and community building partners have been guided by a set of core values. Established by a community/university task force after months of focus groups, community conversations, and other data gathering activities, these values have helped provide a foundation for the selection of university and community building partners, decision-making, and ongoing operations. This study explored the ways in which building partner alignment with the Weitz CEC values influenced their subsequent perceived organizational capacity. Results indicated that embracing the values was positively associated with increased perceptions of organizational capacity. Essentially, those who indicated they embraced the values experienced heightened feelings of belongingness, participated in more networking activities, and agreed that the culture was more cooperative, which contributed to their organization’s perceived capacity.

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