{"id":147,"date":"2018-04-11T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/?p=147"},"modified":"2025-11-20T17:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T23:26:25","slug":"becoming-a-better-mentor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/2018\/04\/11\/becoming-a-better-mentor\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Better Mentor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>You may have found yourself in a&nbsp;<strong>mentorship<\/strong>&nbsp;position, providing advice and guidance for professionals looking to grow. However, regardless of your proficiency in mentoring, there will always be room for you to improve your skills. Even the best mentors seek to learn optimal practices, incorporate effective techniques, and attain a greater understanding of the mentor\/mentee relationship and its challenges.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/echo360.org\/media\/4e27d65c-e311-4baf-85b0-ef6df59bd0ba\/public\">In this session<\/a>,&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Jennifer Larsen<\/strong>&nbsp;explains the steps you can take to improve your abilities so the experience is better for both you and your mentee,&nbsp;<strong>including:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Mentorship preparation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Understanding challenges<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learning elements of top mentors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Following the 7 traits of effective mentoring<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Using teachable moments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presenter<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Jennifer Larsen, MD, Vice Chancellor for Research<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/echo360.org\/media\/4e27d65c-e311-4baf-85b0-ef6df59bd0ba\/public\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Watch-Recording-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-149\" style=\"width:196px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Watch-Recording-3.png 600w, https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Watch-Recording-3-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have found yourself in a&nbsp;mentorship&nbsp;position, providing advice and guidance for professionals looking to grow. However, regardless of your proficiency in mentoring, there will always be room for you to improve your skills. Even the best mentors seek to learn optimal practices, incorporate effective techniques, and attain a greater understanding of the mentor\/mentee relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[47,62,19,63,64,61],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-advancement","tag-career-advancement","tag-coaching","tag-faculty-development","tag-mentee","tag-mentor","tag-mentoring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/ilearn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}