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- Start the new year by celebrating mentors January 6, 2020
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Celebrate National Mentoring Month by Thanking Your Mentor
January is National Mentoring Month, which is a time to reflect on how mentoring has added value to our lives, as both mentors and mentees. Never has being connected to a mentor been more important than during the COVID-19 pandemic, … Read More
Posted in Events, For Mentees, For Mentors
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I’d Meet With My Mentor, But I Don’t Know What to Talk About
Recently, we discussed the value in asking questions to keep a conversation going. What happens when you don’t know where to start? One common answer I’ve heard when I ask mentees if they’ve met with their mentors is, “I would, … Read More
Mentors Celebrated on #ThankYourMentor Day!
Support. Advice. Inspiration. These are just a few of the words used to describe mentors by those who participated in the annual #ThankYourMentor Day campaign to celebrate National Mentoring Month. On January 31st, several Argonne employees shared stories, videos and … Read More
Posted in For Mentees, For Mentors, For Postdocs
Tagged #NationalMentoringMonth, #ThankYourMentor
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Start the new year by celebrating mentors
The new year presents an opportunity to launch new goals or reboot existing ones. While holding true to our new year’s resolutions may seem daunting, the support of mentors can help us to succeed. January is National Mentoring Month making … Read More
Posted in Events, For Mentees, For Mentors, For Postdocs
Tagged #ThankYourMentor, National Mentor Month
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Meaningful Mentoring Workshop–Maintaining Effective Communication in Mentoring Relationships
The Postdoctoral Program Office will offer the last Meaningful Mentoring Workshop of the year on Tuesday, December 17th. This session will focus on ways to maintain effective communication in a mentoring relationship. The target audience includes postdoctoral appointees, mentors and supervisors. Case studies, group discussion and interactive exercises … Read More
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Tagged communication, Feedback, For Mentors, mentees
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Energy and Global Security Directorate Celebrates the Completion of the First Year of the Support Administrative Staff Mentoring Program
On February 5th, participants of the Energy and Global Security Directorate (EGS) Support Administrative (SA) Staff Mentoring Program gathered to reflect on their first year of growth and learning and to plan for the next year’s activities and goals. Keith … Read More
Posted in Argonne's Mentoring Exchange, Events, For Mentees, For Mentors
Tagged development, learning, mentoring
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Thank Your Mentor Day to Close Out National Mentoring Month
Each January, during National Mentoring Month, we are presented a chance to reflect on mentoring—what it means to be a mentor and how mentors have helped us learn and grow. I’ve shared my own experiences as both a mentor and … Read More
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Meaningful Mentoring Workshop to Focus on Setting Expectations, Assessing Understanding
The Postdoctoral Program Office will offer the first Meaningful Mentoring Workshop of the year on January 31, 2019. This first session will focus on two fundamental skills in mentoring–setting expectations and assessing understanding. Future sessions to be scheduled will address maintaining communication, setting … Read More
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Tagged Assessing Understanding, communication, Setting Expectations
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The Mentee Minute–Getting Specific Feedback
Recently, we talked about why it is important for mentors and supervisors to give specific feedback and ways to do that through the SBI model. SBI stands for Situation-Behavior-Impact and is a three-step model to give feedback that helps the mentee … Read More
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Tagged careers, communication, Feedback, mentoring
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Mentoring Skills Tune-Up–Reality Testing
As a self-proclaimed mentee, I’ve fallen victim to the unrealistic view that mentors have all the answers. On the flip side, as a mentor, I’ve had to resist the urge to blurt out solutions and answers to my mentee’s issues. … Read More
Posted in For Mentees, For Mentors, For Postdocs, Resources, Uncategorized
Tagged communication, conversations, mentoring relationships, questioning
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