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Mentoring & Career Development. 10/15/12 Victoria A. Parker, Ed.M., D.B.A. Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management. Learning Objectives. Understand the different functions that mentoring relationships play in career development
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Mentoring & Career Development 10/15/12 Victoria A. Parker, Ed.M., D.B.A. Associate Professor, Health Policy & Management
Learning Objectives • Understand the different functions that mentoring relationships play in career development • Assess your mentoring needs and the adequacy of your developmental network • Develop a plan for managing your developmental network
What is mentoring? • Sharing knowledge, skills, information and perspective • Fostering personal and/or professional growth of someone else
What is mentoring NOT? • One-way only • One-at-a-time only • The only thing needed for career success
Mentoring dimensions • Formal . . . . . . . .Informal • Episodic . . . . . . .Relational • Hierarchical . . . Peer • Functional . . . . Broad-based • Career . . . . . . . .Psychosocial • Dyadic . . . . . . . .Network
Mentoring functions • Career • Sponsorship • Exposure & visibility • Coaching • Protection • Challenging assignments • Psychosocial • Role modeling • Acceptance & confirmation • Counseling • Friendship
Mentor roles & responsibilities • Clarity on time/effort boundaries • Role model career and relational skills • Empathic listening • Maintain awareness of mutual benefits & risks • Maintain self-awareness about attitudes towards this relationship
Mentee roles & responsibilities • Actively manage the connection(s) • Don’t expect it all from one person/mentor • Ask clearly for what you need and consider if you are asking for the right thing from the right person • Strive for mutuality when feasible • Pay it forward…
Reflections from past program participants • “I did not put enough thinking into how to work with my mentor… and didn’t set up regular meetings…it would have helped … scoping the project… then with setting deadlines” • “there were different kinds of mentoring.. Peers one-on-one, small group meetings… amongst the other faculty in the small groups” • “..it is a two way relationship wherein both the mentor and mentee need to be interested and committed” • “worked for a number of reasons… mentor extremely organized… clear outline and deadlines, common interests, engagement…”
Building on your network map • Identify an opportunity or challenge that you would like to pursue going forward. • Given what you are trying to accomplish, how will your current network help you achieve your goal? • What type of help is missing in your current network? • How can your leverage your current network to enhance existing relationships and/or initiate new ones?
Sources • K.E. Kram, Mentoring at work, University Press of America, 1988 • B.R.Ragins & K.E.Kram, The Handbook of Mentoring at Work, Sage Publications, 2007