About the Mentoring Workshops
We offer mentoring workshops to support mentors and mentees in learning skills toward building effective mentoring relationships.
- Better Research Through Better Mentoring workshops are designed to support faculty in their endeavors to learn tangible skills and techniques to help them take their mentoring skills to the next level.
- Mentoring Up workshops are designed to support graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in understanding their roles in collaborating with mentors to advocate for and build effective mentoring relationships.
Better Research Through Better Mentoring workshops for faculty mentors are offered regularly throughout the academic year and by request. Mentoring Up workshops are currently only available by request. Requested workshops can be customized for your class, retreat, department meeting or other gathering.
Mentoring workshops are based on curricula developed by the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experiences in Research (CIMER) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Workshop Topics
Foundations of Mentoring
This introductory module provides an overview of mentoring, its impacts and best practices for mentors.
Foundations of Mentoring Up (for graduate students and postdocs only)
This introductory module provides an overview of mentoring, its impacts and best practices for mentees.
Aligning Expectations
This module explores the importance of establishing and communicating clear, mutually beneficial expectations for the mentoring relationship.
Maintaining Effective Communication
This module offers tools to identify different communication styles, effectively communicate across difference, and provide constructive feedback.
Fostering Independence
This module explores the benefits and challenges of fostering independence in mentoring relationships and equips mentors to employ various strategies to build mentee confidence, establish trust and foster independence.
Assessing Understanding
This module addresses how to effectively assess and enhance mentee understanding.
Promoting Professional Development
This module examines the roles that mentors play in the overall professional development of their mentees and prepares mentors to develop a strategy for guiding professional development.
Articulating Your Mentoring Philosophy and Plan
This module provides an opportunity for mentors to reflect on previous modules and mentoring competencies and articulate an approach for working with mentees in the future.
Mentoring for All
This module expands understanding of how our unique experiences and perspectives influence mentor-mentee interactions.
Fostering Wellbeing
This module explores how mentoring behaviors impact mentee wellbeing and offers strategies to create an environment that fosters wellbeing.
Upcoming Workshops
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Request a Workshop
Would you like to partner with OSMI to support mentorship programming in your program, department, center, college or organization? Submit a workshop request form, and we will be in touch.
Workshop Impacts
Proven curriculum
Workshops are based on proven mentor training curricula – even experienced mentors learn strategies for more effective mentoring from the training.
Better outcomes for mentees
Strong mentorship has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy and career satisfaction, and is an important predictor of the academic success of researchers in training.
Requirement for federal funding
Federal funding agencies are calling for evidence-based mentor training and the use of Individual Development Plans (IDPs) in particular, which is covered in the research mentor training.
A mentoring toolkit
Mentors and mentees will receive resources and materials on how to build more effective research mentoring relationships.