Mentor, Sponsor, or Advisor?
These people most often provide tips, motivation, resources, and emotional support - a confidante.
What are mentors?
Explain what restating is as an active listening skill
What is repeating the phrase you would like clarified or confirmed - responds to the person's basic message?
Things you should prepare for a meeting with your mentor or advisor
What are questions, a plan of action, requests (ex. overrides), what you want to achieve in this meeting?
Give examples of threats to one's integrity as a student (ex. destructive teasing)
What are insults, name calling, undermining personal integrity, intimidation, belittling comments, accusations of lack of effort, minimizing ones contributions?
These people connect you to others in your field and advocate for you.
What are sponsors?
Explain what attending/acknowledging is as an active listening skill (hint: body language)
What is facing the speaker, maintaining eye contact, nodding - providing verbal or nonverbal awareness of the other person?
List 2 components of a good action plan
Ways to get mental health support if you are experiencing academic bullying
What are CAPS and CAPS student support groups?
You might go to this person for help getting connected with companies for internship opportunities.
What is a sponsor?
Explain what summarizing/synthesizing is as an active listening skill
What is repeating what you heard or understand by paraphrasing - provides focus and communicates understanding?
List 3 traits of a good mentee.
What are: respectful, gracious, inquisitive, proactive, humble, willing to learn, etc.?
Give examples of isolation in terms of academic bullying
What is restricting access to opportunities, withholding information, keeping out of the loop, actual physical/social isolation, etc.?
These people share their knowledge and experience, and offer guidance.
What are advisors?
Things to avoid when giving feedback
What are interrupting or offering solutions when you should be listening; preaching; condescension?
List 3 important traits of a good mentor.
What are: patient, available, honest, supportive, knowledgeable, respectful, etc.?
Give some examples of someone of higher standing overworking a student
What are undue pressure, impossible deadlines, unnecessary disruptions, micromanaging, etc.?
You go to this person when you need advice and support with a personal topic.
What is a mentor?
Things to avoid when reflecting as an actively listening practice
What discounting/ downplaying the speaker's feelings?
What should you ensure you and your mentor both agree on in your mentoring relationship
What are personal and professional goals, expectations, skills known or wanting to develop, timescale, etc.?
Resources available to you if you are facing academic bullying
Peer mentors, advisors, EOA offices (Equal Opportunity and Access), OID (Office of Institutional Diversity), Ombuds *fully confidential