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  1. Intro
    1. This has been a focus for Itana for a long time.
    2. Have been involved with Educause peer mentoring program.
    3. We had 14 Itana members go through.
    4. Educause will be launching a mentoring platform soon.
  2. What is Mentoring/Types of Mentoring
    1.  
    2. Mentoring for personal and professional growth stemming from a relationship between less experienced and more experienced individuals.
    3. Alternative pairings are also used.
    4. Types: Traditional mentor/mentee, peer, circle and invisible mentoring.
    5. Other modes: workshops and speed mentoring.
  3. Benefits
    2. Active participation in professional and personal growth
    3. Expanded network
    4. Expand knowledge and skills
  4. Important to set expectations
    2. Communication, meetings, session guidelines, etc.
    3. Honoring commitments and building trust 
    4. Communicate clearly
    5. Put things in perspective
    6. Keep confidential
  5. Goals
    2. Clarify what is important to get out of the mentoring
    3. Purpose, relevance, skill, relationship, etc.
  6. What kinds of goals are you hopeful your peer might aid you in accomplishing?
    1. Is this general or career specific?
      1. It is both as many of the general skills are applicable
    2. Seeing EA concepts applied to real-world examples?
    3. Understanding what EA entails and how to move from a more technical role to EA?
  7. Mentee Readiness

    2.  Be thoughtful and broad in your thinking about mentoring relationships.

    4. Offering observations and perspectives as opposed to answers is hard.

    5. How do you know if you are able to be a mentor?

      1. We did career journey maps. It is a good thing to do to look at what you have learned over the years.

      2. It helps to be clear about what you are looking for in mentoring.

      3. Just jump in and do it. It is fine. It is part of a give back into our industry.

      4. There are a lot of good tools to use such as and essay bio that describes how you became you.

  8. Here is a way to assess your mentoring relationship.

  9. There are also alternative activities for your development goals.

  10. Educause Mentoring Program Kicking off on January 15. Plenty of how to’s and resources.



  11. Mentoring discussion

  13. Poll
  15. Next Steps
    1. Call topic: Career Journey Maps
    2. Call topic:  Pivoting in your career
    3. Steering group to coordinate with Educause platform.

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