The Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers of which the University of Glasgow is an enthusiastic signatory sets out our responsibility to develop both our Research Staff, and the Managers of Research Staff.
And our latest pilot programme β Catalyst Mentoring β does both jobs in one. Mentoring approaches like Catalyst can support PIs to learn valuable people development skills, and at the same time, make sure that those skills are immediately put to good work.
Mentoring leverages learning dialogue to enable mentees to take a deliberate and planned approach to career decision-making, focussing in on the personal objectives of the mentee. Evidence from our pilot of 20 mentoring pairs, shows that this programme does indeed support Research Staff in gaining self-awareness concerning how they relate to others, in gaining greater understanding of where they would like to take their career next, and in their confidence to make career decisions:.
A summary of the spread of mentee personal outcomes is below, with the average number of positive outcomes being 4. Mentors: understanding their power to support others. Mentors were asked to comment as free text on a key takeaway from the mentoring programme as related to their own development.
Selected comments are presented below:. A summary of the spread of mentor personal outcomes is below, with the average number of positive outcomes being 5 per mentor.
