Written by: Vess Vassileva-Clarke and the Mentoring Committee Marketing & Communication Team
January is National Mentoring Month! The NORDP Mentoring Committee has lined up exciting mentoring events and activities for all-level-of-experience mentors and mentees! Join us and participate in one or all of the planned events and learning opportunities:
Mentor Training for RD Professionals Workshop — Get ready to explore mentoring competencies that can be utilized across the work of research development (RD)! This interactive workshop series will cover the 10-module Entering Mentoring curriculum, initially developed by CIMER for mentoring researchers and tailored for RD professionals. Registration is now open – 35 participant limit and the course will fill up fast!
Mentoring Committee Open House — Join us on January 16, 2pm ET for our monthly meeting to learn more about what the Mentoring Committee does, and find out how to get involved and join us. We will talk about the committee’s work and achievements, celebrate our volunteer members, and brainstorm new ideas for the future. Register today!
Dyad Reflection — Throughout the year, we strive to find the most inspiring stories from mentor-mentee dyads and share them with you. We will start this year with Angela Jordan’s and Wendi Jensen’s reflections on their mentor-mentee relationship and what it means to them. Read it on our blog on Jan 20, 2025.
Peer Mentoring Group (PMG) meetings — Log in to WisdomShare and go to Dashboard to find out current PMGs and join the ones of interest to you.
- Career & Professional Development: exploring how to become more efficient and effective in our roles
- Coaching and RD: Developing and implementing coaching as part of the Research Development (RD) skillset
- Collaboration & Team Science: building collaborations and interdisciplinary research programs
- Faculty Development: Supporting RD professionals who perform faculty development through programming and workshops
- Leadership & Management: leading in both official and unofficial capacities
- Proposal Development & Project Management for Research: Supporting proposal development for faculty grant-seeking and leveraging project management tools and methodologies to enhance efficiency and success in securing extramural funding
- Strategic Planning & Advancement: guiding policy and planning for enhanced research and scholarship
Questions: mentorprogram@nordp.org
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