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Mentoring Relationships and Leadership Capacity

In the Social Change Model, the outcome
variable is change. Civically engaged leaders,
like resident assistants, can leave a lasting
impact long after they graduate. These students have the potential to transform their
communities and society by strategically
creating positive, purposeful, and sustainable change. Bainton (2006) shared a useful
analogy on transformational leaders by discussing the impact of boiling water on a carrot,
an egg, and a coffee bean. When a carrot is
boiled, it becomes soft. When an egg is boiled,
the inside becomes hard. However, when a
coffee bean is boiled, the bean transforms the
water. When an RA engages in a mentoring relationship, she or he has an increased aptitude
to serve as a change agent and transform their
environments and communities for the better.

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