Leadership & Management

Wednesday, November 13, 9:00am-4:00pm, Tresidder

In this full day workshop, we challenge the conventional wisdom about mentoring within academia and present a new framework to help you re-imagine how mentoring works. All participants will map their current mentoring network, identify the pressing areas of need that are not being met, and create a plan to expand their existing mentoring network.

This workshop is open to graduate students, postdocs, and early-career faculty.

Monday, April 22, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, MSOB

In this session, we’ll build on past workshops on Aligning Expectations, Listening Actively, and Enhancing Understanding of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to practice having effective conversations with mentees.

We’ll learn and apply a framework for conversations that focuses on fully understanding everyone’s perspective on a problem before collectively designing solutions.

Facilitators: Emily Aery Jones and Debra Van Egeren, Postdoc Peer Mentoring Coaches

Monday, April 15, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, MSOB

Would you like to learn how to support your mentee’s achievement of their academic and professional goals?

In this session, you’ll learn about the role mentors play in the overall professional development of their mentees. This discussion will focus on identifying mentee goals, and balancing the competing demands, needs, and interests of mentors and mentees.

Facilitators: Amanda Dudek and Joy McKenna, Postdoc Peer Mentoring Coaches

Monday, April 15, 10:00am - 11:00am, SRP - 3145 Porter Dr.

Would you like to learn how to support your mentee’s achievement of their academic and professional goals?

In this session, you’ll learn about the role mentors play in the overall professional development of their mentees. This discussion will focus on identifying mentee goals, and balancing the competing demands, needs, and interests of mentors and mentees.

Facilitators: Amanda Dudek and Joy McKenna, Postdoc Peer Mentoring Coaches

Tuesday & Wednesday, June 18-19, 2024, 9:00am-12:30pm

** Must be able to attend both sessions.**  If selected for the workshop, you will be notified of the location.

Monday, March 25, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, MSOB

Would you like to learn how to better navigate conversations with your mentee?

Through interactive discussions and practical activities, you will learn effective strategies to promote open communication, practice active listening, and create a supportive environment. We'll explore best practices for acknowledging and valuing the unique perspectives and needs of mentees from diverse backgrounds.

Monday, March 18, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, MSOB

What expectations do you have of your mentee? Have you considered what expectations your mentee has of you? A mentoring compact is a tool for aligning expectations in a mentoring relationship.

During this workshop, we’ll introduce mentoring compacts by differentiating them from a lab manual, discuss how they can be very powerful for mentors and mentees, and begin creating a mentoring compact.

Facilitators: Joy McKenna and Anthony Venida, Postdoc Peer Mentoring Coaches

Thursday & Friday, April 18-19, 2024, 9:00am-12:30pm

** Must be able to attend both sessions.**  If selected for the workshop, you will be notified of the location.

Monday, March 4, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, MSOB

What do we mean by ‘diversity’? How can understanding your mentee’s unique, complex identity inform your mentoring? Confidently navigating equity and inclusion can benefit you and your research group.

In this workshop, postdocs will develop an awareness of their own complex identities and consider how identity impacts mentoring relationships.

Facilitators: Emily Aster Jones and Joy McKenna, Postdoc Peer Mentoring Coaches

Monday, February 26, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, MSOB

Research integrity is essential in any discipline. What ethical principles guide your work? How can you model ethical awareness for your mentee?

In this workshop, postdocs will consider ethical issues in research groups and discuss the crucial role of power dynamics and its potential to influence behavior.

Facilitators: Emily Aster Jones and Joy McKenna, Postdoc Peer Mentoring Coaches

Mentoring Mondays are open to postdocs from all disciplines. Lunch will be provided.