Postdoc Coffee & Donuts with OPA
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) is hosting a coffee cart, plus Golden Gate Mini Donuts for all postdocs!
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.
Writing Policy Memos for Science, Technology, and Society
Wednesday, August 20, 12:00pm-1:20pm, On Campus
This workshop introduces you to the craft of writing policy memos for decision-makers in government, think tanks, nonprofits, and corporate policy. Focused on science, technology, and social science issues, participants will learn the purpose, tone, and structure of a memo, with emphasis on professional formatting strategies.
If Not You Then Who: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Tuesday, August 12, 12:00pm-1:20pm, On Campus
As researchers, imposter syndrome can creep into various stages of our process - in discussions with peers and advisors, in proposing and designing our projects, in data collection - but perhaps no stage of the process elicits more of a sense of being discovered as a fraud as writing. Writing is when we set about communicating ourselves and our work - and it's supposed finality is part of why it makes us so vulnerable.
Postdoc Coffee & Donuts with OPA
The Office of Postdoctoral Affairs (OPA) is hosting a coffee cart, plus Golden Gate Mini Donuts for all postdocs!
Sign up and stop by for some coffee and mini donuts on us!
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.
Stand Up and Stand Out: How to Present and Connect with Your Audience
Thursday, July 31, 11:30am-1:00pm, On Campus
This workshop will address the basic principles of effective speaking, focusing on preparation strategies and delivery techniques to enhance both the quality of your professional presentations and your general facility and confidence in oral expression. Specifically, we will discuss the organization and editing of materials, taking different audiences into account, as well as issues regarding vocal variety, nonverbal behavior, visual aids and speech anxiety.
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.