Unleashing youth leadership qualities through mentoring

Youth leadership is needed in nation building agenda and involvement of youth leader can be enhanced through wider exposure and professional training, including via mentoring. This paper discusses the potential of mentoring on positive youth development through the help of the Positive Youth Development (PYD) approach, which provides the theoretical basis for developing youth potential (Lerner et al., 2015; Shek et al., 2019), essentially requires empirical investigations to unleash youth leader potentials by mentoring. The study was conducted using a qualitative approach informed by the case study paradigm. This study found that mentoring provides opportunity to communicate directly between protégé and mentor and allowing learning through the organizational members. In conclusion, protégé is not only limited to the mentor, but learning process also occurred through organizational members. The qualitative findings provide insight that mentoring clearly has the potential to constitute the process of leadership learning through the PYD and provide the opportunity for youth to learn to become better leaders and better individuals.

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