Recently, I participated in a faculty development forum in which the consulting organization recommended creating a constellation of mentors rather than relying on one or two individuals to provide a majority of information about career development and related topics. The idea fascinated me because creating a constellation of mentors meant that you could seek to understand various aspects of your career from individuals whose strengths lay in specific areas: teaching, methods, grants, publishing, dealing with jerks in academe (I threw that in to see if you were actually reading this), etc. I've found that assigned mentors tend to be the least useful in key areas, so having a group has helped me in academe and in practice.
Dear Suzanne,
Thank you for your very important question and comments.
I do understand and found it most disappointing that anyone who should be serving as a Mentor does not honor the Mentor fundamental principals.
I serve as a Mentor for number of years now and consider great honor and at the same time a great responsibility to make sure that my Mentoring services are inspiring, encouraging, motivating and most of all honorable with regards to humanity, and mutual respect.
Time is of essence for everyone and every moment one should meet and talk with Mentor, should be most profitable for the person who is to be Mentored, helped, encouraged or inspired.
You may find some Mentoring sites that have very well established Mentoring Policies and Practices including:
1) The IEEE Mentoring: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/mentoring/index.html
2) The IET Mentoring: http://www.theiet.org/membership/career/mentoring/
3) The BCS Mentoring: http://www.bcs.org/category/17006
Hi Suzanne
I think we need to:
- We should ask mentors to provide feedback that aims to continuously develop work
- Take the time to absorb these notes before you answer them or try to defend yourself
- We need to develop the skill of professional intelligence in a vocational institution
- Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the organization's professional performance and assign a suitable plan of action for development
- Take advantage of the professional and personal feedback provided by mentors to develop my professional personality
- Research his professional relationships with his colleagues in the work and take feedback from them for the importance of this in the development of professional performance
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- Publishing