Table 1.

Training areas and specific topics covered in each “mentoring the mentors” workshop (standard content intermingled with locally developed and tailored content)

Training area	Specific topics	Description
Emotional intelligence	Knowing your own and others’ personality styles and how to work together	Working with mentees with different interpersonal and work styles.
	Mindfulness	Being fully aware, present, and non-distracted when interacting with mentees
Communication	Giving and Receiving Feedback	How to give mentees feedback in a constructive way.
		How to solicit feedback on your mentoring.
	Dealing with professional interpersonal conflict	Recognizing and communicating effectively and early when problems are emerging
	Setting Expectations	Setting clear expectations in the mentoring relationship and providing the framework for a “mentee-driven relationship”
		Defining mentoring team members’ roles
	Distance mentoring	Distance mentoring—tools and techniques, and pitfalls and advantages
Professional skills	Time Management	How to make time for mentoring and use it effectively
		How to teach time management skills to mentees
	Individual Development Plans and Mentoring Tools/Resources	Developing and making the most of IDPs for mentees.
		Developing and implementing one’s own mentoring IDP to set and monitor goals related to mentoring skills
		Navigating the mentoring tools and resources from the UCSF CTSI
	Life–Work Balance	Understanding your own life-work balance and examples from others in academic research.
		How to support life–work balance in your mentees
	Team Science	Working effectively as part of a mentoring team
		Teaching mentees how to work as part of a research team and team leadership
	Negotiation	Teaching your mentee negotiation skills.
		Negotiating protected time and acknowledgement for mentoring
		Professional ethics
Diversity	Microaggressions	Identifying and reducing microaggressions in the mentoring relationship/institution
	Unconscious Bias	Awareness of one’s own unconscious bias and how it might affect mentoring relationships and effectiveness
		Celebrating diversity and recognizing social constructs that define differences
		Recognize internalized superiority and internalized inferiority
		Developing critical diversity literacy

CTSI = clinical and translational science institute; IDP = individual development plan; UCSF = University of California, San Francisco.