Transcript Mentoring Graduate Students and Post-Docs Tony Nunez and Julius Jackson The Graduate School

Mentoring Graduate Students and
Post-Docs
Tony Nunez and Julius Jackson
The Graduate School
November 3 2009
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Sunny Skies
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Implicit Expectations
Implicit Expectations: Not
stated and rarely understood.
• “What didn’t you understand about
what I didn’t tell you?”
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Explicit Expectations
Explicit Expectations:
• Clearly Stated
• Checked for understanding
• Unilaterally or jointly set
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Window of “Negotiable”
Expectations
Joint
Explicit
Implicit
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Power Differential and Unilateral
Decisions
• If your intention is to make a unilateral
decision, make this clear from the
outset.
• Negotiation is not manipulation.
First Steps:
• Agreement about the context and
previously set expectations.
• Identify the “issue” as a question that
needs to be answer.
Strategies
• Positional Strategy
• Interest-based Strategy
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Positional Approach
A position is a claim that one makes as
the best (or only)answer to a pressing
question (issue) .
• “As PI, I will be first-author of any
publication from the lab based on a
Masters thesis”
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The Positional Approach for Setting
Expectations
ISSUE
A
B
What I Want
What I Want
A
Position
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C
Compromise
B
Position
Interest-based Approach
Interests are needs that must be satisfied and
values that must be preserved when
searching for answers to a pressing question
(issue).
•Self-esteem
•Good working relationships
•Research excellence
•Funding
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The Interest-Based Approach
A
B
Issue
Interests
Options
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
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The Interest-Based Approach
Issue
Options
Interests
1A C F
2 A DF
3ACD F
4A
5 DF
6 DF
7 CF
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Evaluation
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
Interest-based setting
of expectations
CONTEXT
DECISION
ISSUE
INTERESTS
OPTIONS