ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on positive identity cultivation as a key mechanism for increasing personal leadership effectiveness, and describes several ways that mentors can help diverse leaders understand and manage their internal experiences, interactions, and behaviors while navigating challenging experiences at work through GIVE-based mentoring. It discusses positive identity cultivation and how it generates the social and emotional resources that are key to personal leadership effectiveness. The chapter reveals how mentoring can facilitate this process of positive identity cultivation for diverse leaders who face challenging experiences at work. It proposes that positive identity cultivation enables mentors and protégés to generate valuable resources for their organizations; therefore, both protégés and mentors benefit from GIVE-based mentoring. Also proposed is that positive identity cultivation is a key mechanism through which mentors and their diverse protégés can develop higher quality, resource-generating relationships that benefit both parties and their organizations. The chapter concludes with a characterization of GIVE-based mentoring as a form of relational leadership.
