Faculty Mentoring & Learning Partnership Program

Important Mentor/Mentee Tips:

Communicating Expectations

Mentor:

• Communicate your expectations of your mentee

• Create a plan with your mentees of how to achieve milestones on the way to reaching their goals

• Adapt your feedback to your mentee’s learning and communication styles, etc.

• Set realistic timelines

Mentee:

• Communicate your expectations of your mentor

• Discuss your goals with your mentor and create a plan of how you will achieve milestones on the way to reaching your goals

• Inform your Mentor about your learning and communication preferences

• Set realistic timelines

Working Together

Mentor:

• Advise your mentees on what you know and admit the things you don’t know so they can seek help elsewhere for those things

• Build on your mentee’s strengths and recognize their weaknesses

• Offer constructive feedback

• Evaluate progress

• Be your mentee’s cheerleader when they progress toward or reach their goals

• Be consistent and reliable

Mentee:

• Listen and contribute to the conversation

• Understand that your mentor will not have all the answers, and be prepared to seek out other resources as needed

• Accept constructive feedback

• Evaluate progress

• Celebrate success and assess any shortcomings

• Be consistent and reliable

Conclusion and Follow-Up

Mentor:

• Follow up on successes

• Provide an evaluation of the experience

• Thank your mentee

• Repeat the mentoring process with others

Mentee:

• Update your mentor on your continued success

• Provide an evaluation of the experience

• Thank your mentor