Sunday 28 September 2008

TRANS-DIMENSIONAL MENTORING MODEL



Learning interventions by visionary leaders, managers and experts to innovate negative worldviews such as class-consciousness, racism and impunity using trans-dimensional holistic knowledge, developing new perspectives and intuitions based on the values of freedom, trust, peace, justice and Ubuntu (togetherness, respect, humaneness and dignity and the interconnectedness of people and their environment.) towards competitiveness, innovation, productivity, self-emancipation, empowerment, transformative growth and the restoration of equilibrium in society.

  • Teachers, Mentors, Facilitators and Leaders take advantage of the African learning culture to
    • Educate, train and develop cross-functional task teams within a specific community of practice (COP)
    • Audit the intellectual and social capital needs of the specific COP
    • Audit and understand the need of learners
    • Practice diversity leadership to lead step-by-step according to the abilities of learners with a consciousness of compassion, humaneness, benevolence and non-discrimination
    • Improve conditions for good communication among learners
    • Pursue collective knowledge
    • Facilitate transfer of tacit knowledge between people
    • Validate all perspectives from all cultural environments and functions
    • Promote self-disclosure
    • Draw on indigenous knowledge and symbolic disclosure
    • Establish learning networks

  • Develop a learning culture among learners
    • Promote spontaneity in the sharing of knowledge
    • Initiative to access knowledge
    • Self-enlightment
    • Eagerness to learn
    • Understanding of own position as part of the whole
    • Disclosure and transfer of own perspective through effective communication
    • A synergy of collective understanding as a move away from foreign paradigms (e.g colonialist and cold war perspectives)
  • Establish Collective (Collaborative) Knowledge Centers for a community of practice to
    • observe, process, access (pull), learn from and use indigenous knowledge
    • Learn from a dynamic global environment and learning networks
    • Make knowledge explicit without compromising confidentiality
    • synthesize interpretations to empower with knowledge
  • Enable E-learning through the use of ICT
    • To pull knowledge from the knowledge centers, learning networks and the internet
    • To securely communicate explicit knowledge
    • To display knowledge clearly and attractively
    • To interact with mentor as supplement to personal contact folllow-ups, find answers to questions and obtain feedback on decisions
    • To store knowledge products