CTSC Mentoring Resources
- Making Partnerships Work: A Toolkit
- Penn State CTSC Community Engaged Research Toolkit
- University of California, San Francisco CTSI
- Southern California CTSI
- Urban Institute
- PCORI
Are you a good mentee? Are you putting forth your effort effectively? CTSC CER Mentees are encouraged to complete the Mentee Self-Assessment Worksheetdesigned by Washington State University and use the insight gained to leverage your mentor’s skills and expertise.
- Additional mentee self-reflection tools are listed below:
- Additional articles on how to be an effective fellow are listed below:
Communication is one of the key factors that determines the success of a mentoring relationship. Being a good communicator will not only improve your mentoring experience, but it will also be useful in many other aspects of your career.
Learn more about how to develop effective communication skills and listening skills by viewing the tools listed below:
- How to Have Effective Communication Skills
- Become a Better Listener: Active Listening
- The 8 Principal Problems of Effective Listening
Are you experiencing any conflict within your mentor-mentee relationship? Are you having trouble with matching the communication style of your mentor? Is your mentor providing inadequate or too much direction? Are you seeking guidance on how to constructively address the issues you may be facing with your mentor?
- Here are a few resources to help resolve mentoring challenges that arise:
- Avoiding Queen Bee Syndrome
- Negative Mentoring Experiences – The Impact (Podcast)
Also, remember you can always contact the program coordinator or director to discuss any concerns that you have about your mentoring relationship!
Having a career in science is not all about research and working in laboratory settings. To be successful you must also be skilled in time management, running meetings, and networking with other professionals.
- Here are a few tools to help you with your own professional development:
- Networking Skills to Advance Your Career
- How to Run a More Effective Meeting
- Seven Steps to Running the Most Effective Meeting Possible
- Time Management: 10 Strategies for Better Time Management | CAES Field Report
- How to Manage Your Time More Effectively (According to Machines
- Making the Leap to Independence
- https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/ctsacop/resources
- https://sites.google.com/wisc.edu/ctsacop/home
- 16 Meeting Agenda Examples & Free Templates (clickup.com)
- 30 Meeting Agenda Examples [and Free Templates] | Fellow.app
- Individual Development Plan – ICTR – UW–Madison (wisc.edu)
- guide-to-accountability.pdf (georgiactsa.org)
- The Art of Scholarly Mentoring
- Faculty Mentoring Toolkit
- Guild to Best Practices in Faculty Mentoring – Office of the Provost
- Peer Mentoring Toolkit