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Mentorship Learning Series

This series explores essential topics from the foundational power of mentorship to innovative practices like reverse mentorship, ensuring both mentors and mentees thrive in their professional journeys.

The Power of Mentorship in STEM Careers

In this video, mentors and mentees open up about the transformative impact of mentoring and the role the experience has in advancing the science, technology, engineering and maths careers of young people, especially those from under-represented groups.

Three Key Elements to Thriving Mentorship

We've all heard stories about how mentoring has changed people’s lives, but it can be nerve-wracking to jumpstart the process of finding and maintaining a mentor ... just like going on your first date. In this video, Janet Phan puts you in the driver's seat, giving you the tools to navigate that journey, and leaves you with the license to shift your own gears.

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Savvy Students Get the Guidance

Having a professor, adviser or other mentor can greatly help in navigating college and launching a career, but many students aren’t seeking out such relationships.

Read Savvy Students Get the Guidance by Melissa Ezarik.

Two businessmen collaborate as one helps the other ascend stairs, illustrating the importance of mutual assistance in business.

Effective Mentoring Practices

Large national studies link effective mentorship to important outcomes such as degree completion, increased self-efficacy, and satisfaction with the educational experience.

Read Inclusive Mentoring by The Harriet W Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.

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Acknowledging Identity in Mentorship

Effective mentors are critical in the development of undergraduate and graduate students in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM)—especially for many members of underrepresented and marginalized populations. The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM committee systematically compiled and analyzed current research on the characteristics, competencies, and behaviors of effective mentors and mentees in STEMM and developed a practical resource guide for mentoring practitioners to create and support viable, sustainable mentoring support systems.

Read The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM by National Academies.

How Reverse Mentorship Can Help Create Better Leaders

Employee diversity and inclusive leadership are goals for most organizations today, but how do we get there? Try a "reverse mentorship" program, which sets up junior team members to guide senior staff. Here are six tips to make reverse mentorship work, from executive coach and personal development advocate Patrice Gordon.