Monday, May 20, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, LKSC
Mentoring compacts are shared agreements between mentors and mentees to outline expectations and commitments to each other. Compacts are critical tools to establish new mentoring relationships.
Monday, May 13, 12:00pm - 1:00pm, LKSC
How can you demonstrate to your mentee that you value their thoughts and concerns? Understanding your mentee's perspective and needs is crucial for effective mentoring. Active listening plays a vital role in this aspect as developing this skill can help strengthen your mentoring relationship.
During this session, we’ll identify effective strategies for improving communication, including how to give and receive feedback and engage in active listening.
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