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Mentees will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Effectively establish mutually beneficial expectations for the mentoring relationship.
2. Clearly communicate expectations for the mentoring relationship.
3. Align mentee and mentor expectations.

Mentees will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Assess understanding of core concepts and processes as well as the ability to develop and conduct a project and present outcomes.
2. Identify reasons for a lack of understanding, including expert-novice differences.
3. Use multiple strategies to enhance understanding across diverse disciplinary perspectives.

As a result of participating in this event, attendees will be able to:

• Critically examine ethical dilemmas
• Enhance strategic leadership skills necessary in an evolving ethical landscape
• Learn to apply ethical decision-making tools and frameworks

Mentees will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Identify the roles mentors play in their overall professional development.
2. Develop or revise their individual development plan IDP.
3. Recognize and engage in open dialogue on balancing the competing demands, needs, and interests of mentors and mentees, e.g., research productivity, grant funding, creativity and independence, career preference decisions, non-research activities, personal development, work-family balance, etc.

Mentees will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Define independence, its core elements, and how those elements change over the course of a mentoring relationship.
2. Identify the benefits and challenges of fostering independence, including the sometimes conflicting goals of fostering independence and achieving grant-funded research objectives.

3. Identify signs of self-efficacy that resonate when conducting research related tasks.
4. Define self-efficacy and its four sources.
5. Articulate their role in building their own research self-efficacy.
6. Assess the influence of others on their research self-efficacy.
7. Devise strategies to support others’ research self-efficacy.

Mentees will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Recognize the importance of proactive well-being for mentors and mentees.
2. Understand both the protective as well as the risk factors for graduate student mentee mental health.
3. Identify concrete strategies for support if you are experiencing mental health challenges and are already seeking counseling or other resources.

Mentees will have the knowledge and skills to:
1. Reflect on the mentee education experience.
2. Reflect on any intended behavioral or philosophical changes across the mentoring competencies.
3. Articulate an approach for working with mentors in the future.