Optimizing the Practice of Mentoring

Mentoring Action Plan

Please complete the nine questions below to reflect upon and decide specific actions you can take to apply what you've learned in this course. When done, you can email it to yourself.

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1. List up to three benefits of research mentoring that you think would be valuable to highlight in conversations with your mentees:2. How might you implement different mentoring models, or elements of them, into your local environment (your research team, training program, department)? 3. Which two mentoring roles and responsibilities do you consider to be your strengths?4. Which two mentoring roles and responsibilities do you intend to improve upon?5. Imagine planning for your first meeting with a new research mentee. What might you do or say to create a good foundation for your work together?6. I plan to more formally structure my mentoring by using the following process, strategies, and tools:7. Think back to the strategies described in the course (module 4) for enhancing the quality of mentoring relationships. Pick 2 that you want to learn more about and become more skilled at applying. List your choices below, with a brief explanation of why you selected them.8. Describe one insight about identifying and addressing challenges that you gained from the course and plan to use in your research mentoring relationships.9. What additional successful strategies that weren't covered in the course do you already use or do you intend to use in your mentoring?

Your Action Plan is now complete! Now, choose to email yourself a copy and/or choose to submit your responses anonymously to the course developers.

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