Mentoring: Navigating the Relationship
- Event Type
- Professional Development
- Sponsor
- Graduate College Student Success
- Virtual
- Join online
- Date
- Feb 5, 2026 4:00 - 5:15 pm
- gradsuccess@illinois.edu
- Originating Calendar
- Graduate College Events for Graduate Students & Postdocs
This interactive session shares best practices for beginning and sustaining a mentoring relationship in a research context. It will address topics like assessing mentee goals, setting expectations, choosing and assigning work, providing constructive feedback, combating implicit bias, what to do when things go wrong. This session fulfills part of the training requirement for the Graduate College Mentoring Certificate.
No registration required. This session will be broadcast online at https://go.grad.illinois.edu/eventspace
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*If you require any disability-related accommodations to participate in this workshop more fully, please email gradsuccess@illinois.edu