Top 13 List for Mentoring Post Docs & Junior Faculty

• Remember what you were like then – be empathic.
• Recognize strengths and weaknesses – everyone has some of each.
• Your values and objectives are different from theirs.
• Identify a common cause – you’re all in this together.
• Mentor by example.
• Choose your battles.
• Be tolerant, but firm and consistent.
• Leave emotions and ego at the door.
• You are the GPS – not the driver – recalculate route as necessary.
• Delegate – and don’t micromanage. Let people make mistakes.
• Enable and guide – don’t push or bully.
• Be an enzyme – not a reagent.
• Like parenting, you’ve succeeded when they leave the nest.

Source: Presented by Peter G. Smith, PhD at the 2007 KU School of Medicine Medical Educational Retreat; June 8, 2007; Kansas City, KS.

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