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A Mentoring Toolkit: Tips and Tools for Mentoring Early-Career
Researchers
Kathleen Flint, PhDJanuary 6, 2010
AAS Winter Meeting
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Why Mentor?
• Mentoring correlates with increased success in academic career• Sigma Xi Postdoc Survey (2005): Mentoring is part of
“structured oversight” that correlates with greater success and satisfaction for postdocs
• Mentoring critical part of training for early-career researchers• NSF/NIH Definition: A postdoctoral scholar ("postdoc")
is an individual holding a doctoral degree who is engaged in a temporary period of mentored research and/or scholarly training for the purpose of acquiring the professional skills needed to pursue a career path of his or her choosing
• Mentoring plan can provide a training roadmap for both mentor and protégé
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General Tips
Encourage multiple mentors• Supervisor does not need to be sole
mentor• Multiple mentors can satisfy a
diversity of needs• Studies show this may be more
effective for many protégés, especially women (c.f. Tierney & Bensimon 1996, Promotion and Tenure: Community and Socialization in Academe; Ragins & Cotton 1999, J. of Appl. Psych, 84(4), 529)
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General Tips
Mentoring can occur in a variety of places• Within research group: group meeting?
practice talks? involve in grant writing? opportunities to mentor others in group?
• Within institution: teaching opportunities in department? other colleagues for collaboration? professional development opportunities?
• Outside institution: introduce to your networks? send to other facilities/institutions for skill development? recommend professional opportunities, session chairing, journal editing, advisory group participation?
For more suggestions, see NPA’s “Developing a Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan”
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General Tips
Mentoring is a two-way street• Identify roles and responsibilities for
both mentor and protégé • Consider writing them down (perhaps
using the AAMC Postdoc Compact)
Mentoring can include professional, career, and/or personal development• Mentors don’t have to do it all• Be clear about what you can offer
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Mentoring Plan: First Steps
• Encourage your protégé to perform a self-assessment • Individual Development Plan• NPA Core Competencies
• Develop/find/offer relevant activities • Schedule regular meetings • Conduct on-going assessments to
gauge progress towards goals
From NPA’s “Developing a Postdoctoral Mentoring Plan”
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Individual Development Plan (IDP)
• Identifies professional development needs and career objectives
• Helps set milestones and ways to achieve them• Facilitates communication between protégé and
mentor/advisor• FASEB IDP Template:
http://opa.faseb.org/pdf/idp.pdf • Also, provides framework for feedback/evaluation:
http://opa.faseb.org/pdf/SampleAnnualReview.pdf
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IDP How-To
• Steps for Protégés: • Self-Assessment• Survey career opportunities• Write plan to match skills and strengths with career
choices• Implement plan, revise as necessary
• Steps for Mentors:• Become familiar with available opportunities• Discuss opportunities with postdoc• Review IDP and help revise• Establish regular review of progress and help revise
the IDP as needed
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NPA Postdoc Core Competencies• Purpose: To provide guidelines for postdocs
and mentors to assess success in completing the steps needed for scientific career fulfillment
• Based on life-long learning model• Not intended to be prescriptive or limiting –
should be individualized• Download a self-assessment checklist at:
http://www.nationalpostdoc.org/core-competencies
• Consider also encouraging peer review
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Competencies Needed for Career Success in
the 21st Century
Scientific Knowledge
Communication Skills
Professionalism
Research Skill Development
Management and Leadership
Skills
Responsible Conduct of Research
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www.nationalpostdoc.org/core-competencies
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Mentoring International Scholars• Visa issues
• Become familiar with visa options (or with those individuals who already are)
• Monitor your protégé’s visa status
• Cultural Differences• Clearly communicate about norms, expectations
• Language Barriers• Poor communication skills can be inhibiting for a
junior researcher
• Career Guidance• Provide the benefit of your informal networks, as
theirs may be limited in the U.S.• Encourage grant writing training to learn about U.S.
agencies
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Mentoring Women
• Mentoring can be especially critical for women, so everything mentioned will certainly benefit them. Mentoring can:• Share “inside” knowledge about the profession, the
department• Expand networks• Provide encouragement and role modeling
• Women face additional challenges in finding mentors, such as:• Limited access to potential mentors due to limited
informal networks• Women often downplay their success, attractiveness
as a protégé• Few same-sex role models• Peer-perceptions of cross-gender mentoring
relationships
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Mentoring Women
• Provide assistance to women in identifying and forming mentoring relationships• Women benefit more from mentor-initiated or
mutually-initiated relationships (Stonewater, Eveslage & Dingerson 1990)
• Multiple mentor model is especially effective for women • “Collective mentoring” model can create supportive
environment, with department overseeing a mentoring team
• “Peer mentoring” can also be effective, esp. as complement to mentoring team
• Encourage protégés to look beyond research group, department, discipline, institution
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Additional Resources• NPA’s Mentoring Toolkit: www.nationalpostdoc.org/mentoring • NPA’s Postdoc Core Competencies
• www.nationalpostdoc.org/core-competencies • ORI RCR Education page on Mentorship:
• ori.dhhs.gov/education/products/rcr_mentoring.shtml • HHMI Lab Management Handbooks:
• Making the Right Moves • Training Scientists to Make the Right Moves
• Nat’l Academies (1997): Adviser, Teacher, Role Model, Friend: On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering
• University of Michigan’s Rackham Graduate School handbooks:• How to Get the Mentoring You Want: A Guide for Graduate
Students at a Diverse University• How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty in a
Diverse University• AAMC Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their
Mentors