Strategic: supports planned goal setting and critical
decision making (e.g., regarding decisions that are pivotal to attaining
academic and career milestones). Reflection: How does my mentor assist me in
maturing my vision? Analytic: deciphering options, opportunities, pitfalls,
pathways (i.e., the development of strategies to reach goals). Reflection: How
does my mentor assist me in determining how to achieve or realize my vision? Operational: skills-based mentorship (e.g., how to craft
a persuasive piece of scholarship). Reflection: How does my mentor support me in
developing new, or honing existing, skills? Instrumental: facilitating access to key resources, such
as lab space, facilities, funding, other mentors. Reflection: How does my mentor
assist me in accessing needed resources/services? Affective and emotional support: involves providing
empathy and encouragement that helps a mentee re-engage with a challenging task
and sustains motivation. Reflection: How does my mentor respond when I feel
discouraged or when I have experienced a set-back/ disappointment? Inspirational: facilitating access to role models who
have direct, lived experience with aspects of a given mentee’s path, who
can, therefore, provide empathy as well as grounded strategies for navigating
obstacles to success. Such mentors serve as a source of hope and encouragement
as someone who faced some of the same struggles, yet persevered. Reflection: In
what way(s) is my mentor like me? What wisdom might s/he have to offer that I
can apply in navigating my own path to success? To what extent does my mentor
understand some of my challenges and struggles?
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