Mentoring Matters
Welcome to "Mentoring Matters" the podcast where professors Stephanie Hansen and Mary Drewnoski share their expert insights on how to excel as a mentor. Join us as we tackle the challenges of mentoring graduate students and offer actionable tips for building community, enhancing communication, and fostering a culture of learning within your team. With years of experience and hard-won wisdom, Hansen and Drewnoski will provide the guidance you need to succeed in your mentoring endeavors. Tune in to "Mentoring Matters" for valuable insights and advice on mentoring graduate students.
Mentoring Matters
Tips for Building Resiliency in Graduate Students
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In this episode we share ideas for improving resiliency in our graduate students. Topics covered include:
- Angela Duckworth's book "Grit" and Liz Wiseman's "Impact Players" are two resources we discuss and recommend
- Passion is a part of resiliency, we discuss ways to foster passion in our students
- Deliberate practice: we suggest ways to pressure test our students to build those skills they need later in the defense, etc.
- We discuss how we identify the impact players on our teams and how we help develop others into impact players (ex. helping them maintaining ownership of a situation when it gets tough)
- Balancing building resiliency without causing damage to a student's confidence (and how personality/strengths assessments can help)
For actionable tips and strategies for mentoring please check out The Graduate Mentor's Trail Map available in paperback and ebook!
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