1. Role of Mentors Skills & Preparations Opportunities
We focus here on how mentors can be valuable, however, this can also be looked at in different ways. Including, what you should look for in mentors or skills/talents you should have or seek as a mentor. Additionally, it is worth mentioning that the traits that make a good leader often make a good mentor.
In Facilitating the Development of Effective Leaders in the Right Positions

2. What’s a Mentor anyway Mentor Coach Sponsor
Mentor = discusses options with the mentee Coach = tells the mentee what is good for them Sponsor = talks about the mentee to others and promotes them and their talent to create opportunities. This is also a good time to potentially mention their rolls can overlaps often time minorities and women have problems finding one or multiple of these circles.

3. Bridge between Opportunities and Skills & Preparation
Mentors
Networking
Training Programs/ Workshops
Cultural/ Political Change
Opportunities
Skills & Preparations
Simplified way of thinking about how opportunities can occur for leadership and how one can increase their skills and preparation. A key point to note is that mentors are one of if not the only bridge that an help provide opportunities and increase skills/preparations. It is also important to note the need for multiple mentors as they provide different skill sets, experience, and opportunities for individuals to be placed in positions of leadership where they can succeed and be effective. It is also important to note that when we say skills, we often time mean communication and administrative skills.
Funding
Leadership Turnover
Experience

4. Training Programs/ Workshops Networking
How Mentors Can Help
Training Programs/ Workshops
Networking
Facilitating opportunities where one can increase skills. E.g. letters of recommendation, encouraging application to fellowships, recommending attendance to conference, etc.
Directly or indirectly connecting individuals by encouraging attendance to key people, events, conferences, etc.
Mentors
Opportunities
Skills and Preparation
Objectively assessing one’s skills and preparation. Facilitating ways for one to improve gaps. Directly teaching lessons or skills. Sharing personal experiences to help prevent missteps increase preparation.
Creating, assessing, and finding opportunities for an individual. Informing individuals about funding, institutional culture, and leadership turnover.

5. Preventing a Mismatch Mentors Skills & Preparations Opportunities
Opportunity
Skills & Preparation
Good mentors are key to help prevent leaders from getting into situations where they are under utilized or overwhelmed. One important way to prevent underutilization and being overwhelmed is to give mentees information on institutional culture, sharing personal experiences, helping to align mentees with their vision/goals.
Overwhelmed
Underutilization

6. Reducing a Mismatch Mentors Mentors Skills & Preparations
Opportunities
Opportunity
Skills & Preparation
If you find yourself in this mismatch. Mentors still can make a difference in increasing your opportunities or skills/preparation as show on slide 2
Overwhelmed
Underutilization

7. When Mentorship Should End?
Short answer: Never
Mentor
Mentor
Mentor
You will always have a need/benefit from mentors. Their roles and what you need from them as a mentee changes as you advance in leadership, opportunities change, etc. However, you don’t need to keep the same mentors and relationship with your mentors can evolve to colleague, friend, etc. Having internal and external mentors are important as they provide different perspective and help one be more effective and prepared in the leadership position even if not seeking ultimate promotion.
Sponsors
Mentee
Coaches