Managing Mentoring Relationships: Mentoring Up
Mentoring Up is an active learning approach designed for post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty to support development of the skills needed to successfully navigate the research training environment and proactively manage their mentoring relationships.
Objective
Post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty can benefit from continually learning to proactively shape their mentoring relationships and their work environments. Mentoring Up training helps these early stage investigators better understand themselves and their needs and effectively navigate their relationships and climates to ensure those needs are met.
Themes and Concepts
Once your training has been scheduled, you will meet with CIMER’s Principal Facilitator to determine the themes to customize your training. The following themes are included in our mentoring up curricula:
- Building Research Self-Efficacy
- Aligning Expectations
- Maintaining Effective Communication
- Reflecting on Diversity & Establishing a Practice of Inclusion
- Enhancing Work-Life Integration*
- Fostering Independence
- Promoting Professional Development
*Unique to Junior Faculty Curriculum:
View learning objectives (PDF) for each theme.
Implementation
Ideally, Mentoring Up is implemented by local facilitators over many weeks, months or semesters as scholars engage in their mentoring relationships. However, the curriculum can be implemented as stand-alone workshops facilitated by CIMER Principal Facilitators or local trained facilitators.
We offer customized research mentor training workshops led by CIMER Principal Facilitators. Workshops ranging from a half day to a full day or two are available for post-doctoral fellows or junior faculty across disciplines.