Mentoring Workshop series 2021 - 2022 videos
See videos below of the presentations from the MWC Mentoring Workshop series held in 2021 - 2022.
Hugh Kearns - Mentoring Masterclass
Hugh is recognised internationally as a public speaker, educator and researcher. He regularly lectures at universities across the world including lectures at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Berkeley and Stanford. His areas of expertise include self-management, positive psychology, work-life balance, learning and creativity. He draws on over twenty five years of experience as a leading training and development professional within the corporate, financial, education and health sectors in Ireland, Scotland, North America, New Zealand and Australia. He has coached individuals, teams and executives in a wide range of organisations in the public and private sectors. Hugh lectures and researches at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He is widely recognised for his ability to take the latest research in psychology and education and apply it to high-performing people and groups. As a co-author with Maria Gardiner, he has published ten books which are in high demand both in Australia and internationally.
About the session:
This masterclass will cover models and strategies you can use to develop your mentoring approach. We will look at what is and is not mentoring, managing boundaries, understanding different personality styles and dealing with difficult situations.
Handouts:
- Presentation slides
- Learning Styles
- The Imposter Syndrome
- Windows on the World
- Why Successful People Often Feel Like Frauds
Carol Scholes - Setting up mentoring partnerships for success
Carol Scholes is a Master Coach and has delivered mentoring training and coaching practice for the last 20 years. Carol provides executive, board and leadership coaching to organisations across Aotearoa-New Zealand. Carol has a Bachelor of Business in Human Resource Management, a Graduate Diploma in Dispute Resolution (Mediation), Certificate IV in Executive Coaching and is a qualified trainer using accelerated learning techniques. Carol is a chartered member of the Institute of Directors and an Associate Coach for the Institute of Strategic leadership.
About the session:
Mentoring partnerships are an exceptionally effective way to develop skills and knowledge for both a mentor and a mentee. However an effective mentoring partnership doesn’t happen by putting two people in the same room. This workshop will explore how to set the partnership up to achieve success for both the mentor and the mentee.
This skills based training workshop will cover:
- The necessity to set the ground rules and expectations clearly from the beginning.
- How to define what you can and can’t talk about.
- Getting clear on success for the mentee.
- The benefits of regularly reviewing your mentoring partnership
Handouts:
Jane Allison - Mentoring in the Aotearoa New Zealand context
Jane Allison is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland, and an Associate Investigator with the Biomolecular Interaction Centre at the University of Canterbury, as well as with the Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery. Jane’s research involves the development and application of computational methods for exploring the conformational dynamics of proteins. Jane obtained her PhD from Cambridge University as an inaugural Woolf Fisher scholar, then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the ETH in Zürich, Switzerland for 5 years before returning to New Zealand. Within three years between 2014 and 2017, Jane was promoted to Senior Lecturer than to Associate Professor and awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2015. As the Chair of Royal Society Te Apārangi Early Career Researcher Forum Committee, Jane was part of the working group who led the development of the Royal Society Te Apārangi Mentoring guidelines for researchers.
About the session:
The mentoring literature and most training are focused on mentoring in a Western business environment. How might this differ in academic, and in Aotearoa New Zealand? This session will cover what’s special about our work environment, including our small, highly connected networks, relative isolation, limited employment opportunities and unique mix of cultures, and its benefits and limitations in developing a career in academia or beyond.