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Section 1. OrganiZational Application

Transformational Mentoring: Using Transactional Analysis to Make a Difference

Pages 158-167
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article briefly critiques an earlier article in the Transactional Analysis Journal (Nykodym, Freedman, Simonetti, Nielsen, & Battles, 1995) on mentoring and goes on to propose that the traditional style of mentoring is increasingly inappropriate in modern organizations. The author then describes the potential contribution to mentoring of the transactional analysis concepts of contracting, three-cornered contracting, psychological distance, drivers, ego states, strokes, and the assessing quadrant and explains how these can provide valuable input to a mentoring process that is based on developmental alliances between equals.

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Julie Hay

Julie Hay is a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (organizational) and Chief Executive of training consultancy A D International.
 

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