Date: August 8, 2024
Time: 12:00PM - 01:00PM
You must be registered to participate!Mentoring is a collaborative, interdependent relationship. In optimal dynamics, mentees and mentors engage as partners through reciprocal activities such as planning, acting, reflecting, questioning, and problem-solving. In addition, successful mentoring relationships are those in which mentees are supported to reach their individual milestones along their career trajectory by communicating their needs and clarifying their roles within the mentoring relationship. Based on the Harvard Business Review concept of “managing up”, mentoring up refers to the proactive role that mentees have in shaping and managing their mentoring relationship. Through initiative, shared responsibility, and proactive engagement, mentees are able to optimize the mentoring relationship and advance their shared goals. In this seminar, mentees will develop the knowledge and skills to proactively and effectively navigate their mentoring relationships and career progression, including approaches to maintaining effective communication, aligning expectations, addressing equity and inclusion, building research self-efficacy, achieving independence, and seeking professional development. Upon completion of the seminar, participants will be able to leverage the “Mentoring Up” framework to:
Reference: Lee, S., McGee, R., Pfund, C., and Branchaw, J. 2015. “Mentoring Up: Learning to Manage Your Mentoring Relationships” In: The Mentoring Continuum: From Graduate School Through Tenure. Glenn Wright, ed. Syracuse, NY: The Graduate School Press of Syracuse University. pp. 133-153.
Mentoring is a collaborative, interdependent relationship. In optimal dynamics, mentees and mentors engage as partners through reciprocal activities such as planning, acting, reflecting, questioning, and problem-solving. In addition, successful mentoring relationships are those in which mentees are supported to reach their individual milestones along their career trajectory by communicating their needs and clarifying their roles within the mentoring relationship. Based on the Harvard Business Review concept of “managing up”, mentoring up refers to the proactive role that mentees have in shaping and managing their mentoring relationship. Through initiative, shared responsibility, and proactive engagement, mentees are able to optimize the mentoring relationship and advance their shared goals. In this seminar, mentees will develop the knowledge and skills to proactively and effectively navigate their mentoring relationships and career progression, including approaches to maintaining effective communication, aligning expectations, addressing equity and inclusion, building research self-efficacy, achieving independence, and seeking professional development. Upon completion of the seminar, participants will be able to leverage the “Mentoring Up” framework to:
Reference: Lee, S., McGee, R., Pfund, C., and Branchaw, J. 2015. “Mentoring Up: Learning to Manage Your Mentoring Relationships” In: The Mentoring Continuum: From Graduate School Through Tenure. Glenn Wright, ed. Syracuse, NY: The Graduate School Press of Syracuse University. pp. 133-153.