1. MENTORING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Strategies for Managing Challenges in the Workplace Career Opportunities in Physiology Committee EB Conference 2015 Boston, MA Tuesday, March 31, 2015 Facilitator Howard G. Adams, Ph.D. H.G. Adams & Associates, Inc. Norfolk, VA

2. MENTORING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Strategies for Managing Challenges in the Workplace

3. Defining Mentoring Mentoring is an enabling relationship between an experienced person (mentor) and a less experienced person (mentee). Mentee/Protégé The relationship between the mentor and mentee should be build as a mutually beneficial partnership that allows for empowerment and self-determination in a climate which transcends age, race, disabilities, ethnicity, gender, and generation.

4. MENTORING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Strategies for Managing Challenges in the Workplace Function of Mentoring Mentoring is more than a role, it is a function centered on... 1. Influencing – acknowledging personal responsibility. 2. Informing – self-disclosure; sharing understandings. 3. Probing – Asking “Why?” What? How? and When? 4. Expanding contacts – directing to other resources. 5. Summarizing – bring closure on the next step (s).

5. MENTORING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Strategies for Managing Challenges in the Workplace Assistance Provided Through Effective Mentoring 1. Advising – strategies for continuous learning. 2. Mentoring – nurturing, supporting, advocating. 3. Tutoring - “how-to strategies. 4. Confronting – feedback oriented to adjustment and change.

6. MENTORING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Strategies for Managing Challenges in the Workplace Utilizing Mentoring to Handle Challenges When addressing workplace challenges, effective mentoring practices serve two primary purposes... 1. responding to mentee's needs: a. providing candid and factual feedback; and b. identifying information to decode issue. 2. helping mentee identify and implement a response: a. what can and should be changed, and b. strategies for implement the change.

7. MENTORING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Strategies for Managing Challenges in the Workplace Mentoring Others on Managing Change in the Workplace Mentoring others to manage change in the workplace tends to fall into two categories that differentiate... 1. present status - “what is”; often center on deficiencies. 2. possibilities - “what is desired”; actions for stepping up.

8. MENTORING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Strategies for Managing Challenges in the Workplace Centering the Mentoring Experience Mentoring for managing workplace challenges is most effective when focused on providing assistance that... 1. Clarifies the issue. 2. Establishes goals to respond to the issue. 3. Develops prioritized tasks for actualizing goals. 4. Formulates actions to implement tasks. 5. Establishes measures to monitor progress and assess results.

9. MENTORING FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Strategies for Managing Challenges in the Workplace Summary Thoughts to Ponder Mentoring follows “tried and proven” practices and protocols aid in the to mentee learning, improving, stretching, developing, and growing.

10. Howard G. Adams, Ph.D. H.G. Adams & Associates, Inc. Norfolk, VA hgadamsasso@cox.net HOWARD G. ADAMS, Ph.D. is Founder and President of H.G. Adams & Associates, Inc., a Norfolk, VA based consulting company that provides human development services and products to educational, governmental and industrial organizations. Read more: http://howardgadams.com/biosketch.html http://howardgadams.com/biosketch.html