28 Jan Mentorship and Leadership at Different Career Stages
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Description
Mentorship can have a wonderful impact on your career. 91% of workers with a mentor reported being satisfied with their jobs, an increase of more than 20% of those without a mentor based on research by CNBC. A study from the University of Toronto found that staff members with mentors were promoted an average of 1 year faster; Sun Microsystems found that employees with mentors were 5 times more likely to gain a promotion than those without. This session will focus on identifying the various formats and focus areas of mentorship and provide tools and guidance to create a successful mentoring relationship.
This is the sixth session of the 2024–2025 Team Science Seminar Series.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this event, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the benefits of mentoring for the mentor and mentee.
- Identify three characteristics or attributes of an effective mentor.
- Understand the different types and formats of mentorship.
- Learn how to create an effective mentoring relationship.
About the Speakers
Brenda K. Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN, is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics in the University of Washington (UW) School of Nursing. Dr. Zierler conducts interdisciplinary research that advances the fields of interprofessional collaborative practice, team science, implementation science, and quality improvement to improve team and patient outcomes. Dr. Zierler teaches Team Science and Leadership in the PhD program and Quality Improvement, Patient Safety and Informatics in the undergraduate nursing program. Her primary appointment is in the UW School of Nursing but she holds three adjunct appointments – two in the UW School of Medicine (Department of Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery & Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education) and one in the UW School of Public Health (Department of Health Systems and Population Health).
Dr. Zierler is co-lead of the Team Science Core for UW’s Institute for Translational Health Sciences (CTSA).
Jennifer Sprecher is Director of Strategy Development and Deployment with the School of Nursing. Ms. Sprecher works with organizations to achieve excellence through Strategy development, Lean Project Management, balanced scorecards, change management, benchmarking, team problem solving, team and leadership coaching.
Ms. Sprecher is a strong team facilitator, called upon to facilitate high-level teams where interaction and reaching objectives are critical. Sample facilitations include strategic planning, building collaborations, designing and developing new services, products and processes, implementing process improvements, implementing research studies and creating new research centers. She has worked extensively in the past few years within the arena of team science and applying team concepts to innovative development and research teams.
Before the UW School of Nursing, Ms. Sprecher focused exclusively on health research in the Institute of Translational Health Sciences, also within the University of WA. Prior to the UW, she spent 7 years as Executive Director of the Washington State Quality Award (WSQA), a Baldrige-based non-profit organization. With a background in Industrial Engineering, Ms. Sprecher has been working with process improvement for over 25 years using continuous process improvement methods including Lean, Lean-Sigma, Plan Do Check Act and 6S (5S workplace organization combined with Safety) and Total Quality Management. Ms. Sprecher has a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, a Master’s of Science in Management Systems, is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and an International Coaching Federation ACC-certified Leadership Coach.
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