Taking Feedback to the Next Level: Establishing a Community of Learning

Taking Feedback to the Next Level: Establishing a Community of Learning

Share and discuss ways to build and foster a community of learning. Participants learn how mentors and staff create a culture of learning and feedback within their organizations. You will discover ways to successfully nurture and foster a strong, welcoming community. Additionally, through the exploration of mentoring tools and frameworks you will better understand how to enable more effective communication and active listening that creates a rich community. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Determine ways to create a community of learning
  • Identify commitments and key actions in service of fostering a community of learning at your organization
  • Define tools and techniques to foster growth and development

Establishing a Growth Mindset: Developmental Feedback

Establishing a Growth Mindset: Developmental Feedback

Conversations around feedback are often regarded as some of the most difficult in the workplace. Participants will learn clear definitions of feedback; clear, simple frameworks to use in feedback conversations; and how to effectively partner with mentees to build feedback ability, in service of personal and professional development for all. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Explain effective feedback tactics
  • Design and provide developmental feedback to encourage and inspire progress
  • Practice giving feedback

Defining Your Career Journey and Goals

Defining Your Career Journey and Goals

Setting goals is an important part of determining how individuals can advance in their careers, and can help provide framing for formal or informal mentoring relationships. Participants will understand ways to develop as mentors and/or mentees to determine short and long-term goal-setting frameworks. The course will include Agile Goals and Career Journey mapping that can be used as powerful tools to establish trust and a strong mentoring relationship. Recommended as the first session in the Building Strong Mentoring Relationships Training Pathway. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Identify how agile goals are valuable in a mentee’s career journey
  • Distinguish the mentor and mentee career journeys to date
  • Construct an initial high-level roadmap to achieve goals

Assessing Your People and Writing Clear and Helpful Evaluations

Assessing Your People and Writing Clear and Helpful Evaluations

Discover how to use evaluations to help improve team member’s performance, providing them goals to help them envision and achieve success. Through a series of frameworks and tools, participants will explore ways to design effective evaluations that lead to actionable results. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the differences in assessments as a career mentor from evaluation as a clinician or scientist
  • Design and communicate strong narrative feedback in written form
  • Interpret evaluations and communicate insights from evaluations for actionable results

Creating Space for Others to Develop: How to Help a Struggling Mentee/Trainee

Creating Space for Others to Develop: How to Help a Struggling Mentee/Trainee

Focused on a strengths-based approach to help all junior staff/mentees, participants learn about positive psychology and appreciative inquiry. Through simple, effective tools, you will understand how you can build a relationship to enable the growth and development of all staff. Additionally, participants will discover clear, actionable frameworks that can be used with struggling staff to advance your performance. (90 min workshop)

Learning Objectives

  • Define tools and frameworks to encourage development
  • Identify and leverage the appropriate tools to support a struggling mentee
  • Explain how to effectively develop individuals’ strengths