dynaMENT Start-up Workshop Advanced

by Ljubica Lozo

Thursday Oct 6, 2022, 9:00 AM → 4:30 PM Europe/Berlin

Ground Floor Seminar Room (HARBOR)

The aim of the workshop is to acquaint programme participants with mentoring as a tool in staff development and clarify the following questions: What is mentoring? Which characteristics do I envision in an ideal mentor? How can I identify my ideal mentor? What issues can and can't a mentor help me with? How can mentoring support me develop my career? How can I best prepare for working with my mentor? What is the role of the mentor, and what is the role of the mentee? What do I want my mentor to support me with? What do I want out of the mentoring relationship? What do I expect from my mentor and the mentoring programme? ...

Therefore, the workshop will focus on the following issues:

• Definition and significance of mentoring and the difference between mentoring and coaching
• Issues, questions and scope of mentoring

• Based on my professional situation and objectives as an advanced postdoc:
o Who could be my ideal mentor? (drawing a prototype of the ideal mentor)
o Strategies for finding a mentor and creating successful mentoring relationships

• Identification of professional and personal development goals of the advanced postdocs within the programme
The mentoring relationship
• Mentees’ expectations regarding the mentor
• The mentee and the mentor: roles and responsibilities
• Meetings with the mentor: organisation and arrangement
• The preparation of the initial meeting with the mentor