Become a Mentor
Requirements
- Currently in a staff position at Northwestern University
- 2-5 years professional experience
- Employed for at least 1 year at Northwestern University
- Currently a member of ANUW – Not an ANUW member yet? Join today!
Benefits
- Opportunity to share your professional experiences, insights, and lessons learned
- Help another ANUW member and satisfaction of seeing mentee succeed
- Help mentee avoid pitfalls and improve skills
- Increase awareness of workplace and staff issues
- Expand your own professional network
- Increase active listening skills
- Recognition and appreciation
- Knowledge of good mentoring techniques to use in future relationships
- Gain further insights/alternative perspectives about the university as a whole
Expectations
- Participate for the full length of the program
- Develop a regular meeting schedule with your mentee, we encourage at least once a month
- Attend program events throughout the program
- Share your career story
- Listen and ask probing questions
- Share relevant examples and stories about workplace realities and challenges
- Help create goals (skill and developmental) for the relationship
- Share relevant examples of competencies
- Discuss progress and pitfalls
- Celebrate successesEvaluate the relationship
- View the relationship as a mutual exchange or a partnership where both parties benefit
Apply to Become a Mentor
The mentor application is closed for FY25.