rOpenSci
Mentoring & training program for Scientific Open Source Champions
Mentorship Training and Orientation
Moderated by Yani Bellini Saibene
Source materials: Mozilla Open Leaders, The Carpentries & Teaching Tech Together - CC-BY-NC
Mentorship Reflection
Duration: ~10 minutes
- Think of an experience you’ve had as a mentor or being mentored
- Use the shared doc to answer the questions next to your name
What do mentors do?
Mentors advise and inspire.
- Recommend resources, readings, training, experiences
- Feedback to consider
- Connect to people, programs, and organizations
Mentorship Skills
overview of the skills we’ll see today
Active Listening
Effective Questioning
Giving Feedback
Mentorship Skills - Active Listening
- Suspend judgment and listen.
- Give your full attention to the speaker (don’t rehearse what you’re going to say).
- Encourage the speaker with verbal and nonverbal cues.
Mentorship Skills - Effective Questioning
- Access & analyze information
- Stimulate thinking & creativity
- Learn through discussion
Mentorship Skills - Giving Feedback
- Try to be helpful
- Be specific. Focus on observable behaviour
- Speak for yourself
- Balance praise & critical feedback
Mentorship Tools - Meetings
- Setting Expectations
- What are the goals of the program for you & the recipient?
- Tools to Explore & Reflect
- GROW Model
Mentorship Tools - GROW model
- Goal: Agree on a topic & objective or longer-term goals
- Reality: self-assessment, specific examples
- Options: suggestions offered & choices made
- Way forward: next steps
Mentorship Tools - GROW model
GOAL
- What do you want to achieve?
- What will be happening when you have succeeded?
- GOALS can be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time bound)
REALITY
- What is happening at the moment?
- What stops you from moving on?
- What have you tried?
- What happened?
- What have you learned?
OPTIONS
- What could you do? What else?
- What are the advantages/disadvantages of each option?
- Would you like suggestions from me?
- What options do you like the most?
WAY FORWARD
- What will you do?
- What will be the first step?
- When precisely are you going to start and finish each step?
- What support do you need and from whom?
GROW Model
Duration: ~10 minutes
- You will work on groups.
- Watch the video linked in the shared doc of an example using the GROW model and try to identify the steps of the model
GROW Model
Duration: ~10 minutes
- You will work on groups.
- Practice the GROW model. One of you will be the mentor, the other the mentee. Use the topic you answer need it help with in the first question.
Mentorship Tools - GROW model tips
- ‘Ask’ rather than ’tell’
- Illustrate and check understanding
- Even if you are an expert in the situation - you’re acting as a facilitator
Previews Mentors Advice
- Let your mentee talk more than you, and mostly just nudge them in the direction they need to go.
- I’d probably try to take more advantage of asynchronous Slack chats. Finding times to meet, AND having good enough internet to do video chats was a challenge.
- Talk more with the other mentors.
- Nurture a regular connection with your mentee. Talk with them often and about things beside the program.
Mentorship Tools
Mentors’ Guidelines
- Meeting templates
- Mentor Charter
- Meeting report
- Slack Channels:
- One for champions only.
- One for mentors only.
- One for all.
- One for all cohorts.
- Google Drive
Ready - Q&A
Duration: ~10 minutes
In the shared doc, next to your name, please answer
Do you feel ready to mentor?
Feedback on this training
Duration: ~5 minutes
- Let’s practice to give feedback: please answer our anonymous survey about this training.
- Help us to improve!