Mentoring Lunches: Writing a Mentoring Compact
Tuesday, October 28, 12:15pm-1:15pm, On Campus
Mentoring Lunches: Understanding Different Communication Styles
Tuesday, October 21, 12:00pm-1:00pm, On Campus
Each of us has a unique way of communicating with others. Understanding your natural communication style and how to best adapt it to communicate with others is an important part of building and maintaining strong mentoring relationships.
Mentoring Lunches: Incorporating Psychological Safety in Mentorship
Psychological safety is the foundation for openness, trust, and healthy mentoring relationships. But how do we build it in practice?
In this interactive follow-up session, we’ll move beyond definitions to explore concrete strategies you can apply today to foster psychological safety in your mentorship. Through hands-on exercises and real-world case studies, you’ll develop greater self-awareness, practice communication skills that encourage openness, and leave with practical tools to cultivate trust and safety in your current and future teams.
Mentoring Lunches: Personnel Management: Managing Conflict Within a Lab
In this interactive session, we will explore practical strategies for navigating and resolving conflicts within the lab.
Through engaging case studies and role-play activities, participants will practice tools for fostering open communication, addressing tensions constructively, and creating a collaborative, inclusive lab environment.
Optimizing Culturally Inclusive Mentoring Practices
Thursday, August 7, 9:00am-4:00pm and Friday August 8, 9:00am-1:00pm (required), 1:00pm-4:00pm optional (required for coach applicants), On Campus
Attendance is required for all of 9am-4pm (7 hours) on Thursday and at least 9am-1pm (4 hours) on Friday; 1-4pm on Friday is optional (required for coach applicants). This in-person workshop is highly interactive.
Mentoring Lunches: Promote Professional Development for Your Team
Non-research professional development activities are important to identify, develop, and reach long-term career objectives.
In this session, we will explore how to recognize and promote professional development opportunities for your mentees.
Facilitators: Joy McKenna and Anthony Venida, Postdoc Peer Mentoring Coaches.
Mentoring Lunches are open to postdocs from all disciplines. Lunch will be provided.
Mentoring Lunches: Fostering Independence
Helping trainees build the skills and confidence to work more independently is an important part of a research mentoring relationship. In addition to providing guidance and advice, helping mentees grow as independent researchers requires an accurate assessment of their current abilities and level of understanding.