Event

Entering Mentoring: Session 4

Monday, November 27, 2023
11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
A. James Clark Hall - Room # TBD
Martha Wang
martha@umd.edu
https://bioeumd.wufoo.com/forms/q12y6ix81nfy7zp/

The Fischell Department of Bioengineering & Fischell Institute for Biomedical Devices are hosting 4 sessions from the Entering Mentoring Series for graduate students and postdocs. Attending all 4 sessions will earn you a Mentor Training Certificate!

All sessions will take place in AJC, specific location TBD

Facilitating will be Martha Wang, Jenna Mueller and Katharina Maisel.

Register for Session 4 here.

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Session 4: Nov 27th from 11:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Promoting Professional Development
Mentors will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Identify the roles mentors play in the overall professional development of their mentees
2. Develop a strategy for guiding professional development using a written document
3. Initiate and sustain periodic conversations with mentees on professional goals and career development objectives and strategies
4. Engage in open dialogue on balancing the competing demands, needs and interests of mentors and mentees, e.g., research productivity, grant funding, creativity and independence, career preference decisions, non-research activities, personal development, work-family balance, etc.

Articulating Your Mentoring Philosophy and Plan
Mentors will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. Reflect on the mentor-training experience
2. Reflect on any behavioral or philosophical changes they intend to make across the mentoring competencies
3. Articulate an approach for working with new mentees in the future

Audience: Graduate  Post-Docs