Suggested Readings

We'll be adding more literature as we go...here's a few to get you started.

Books

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• Writing skills

  • How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing by Paul J. Silvia
     
  • The Clock Work Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations & Books by Eviatar Zerubavel
     
  • The Work of Writing by Elizabeth Rankin

• Mentoring skills

  • The Handbook of Mentoring at Work: Theory, Research, and Practice by Belle Rose Ragins, Kathy E. Kram
     
  • Your Work, Your Life, Your Way by Julie Cohen (personal and professional success)
     
  • StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath (strategies for applying your strengths)
     
  • Less: Accomplishing More by Doing Less by Marc Lesser (simple approaches for transforming your lifestyle)
     
  • Ask Powerful Questions by Will Wise (tools for creating more meaningful dialogue)
     
  • Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear 
     
  • Power Mentoring: How Successful Mentors and Proteges Get the Most Out of Their Relationships by Ellen Ensher, Susan Murphy 

Journals

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• These insightful journals highlight studies of effective mentoring.

  • The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM
     
  • From the Ordinary to the Extraordinary: High-quality Mentoring Relationships at Work
     
  • Reverse Mentoring at Work: Fostering Cross-Generational Learning and Developing Millenial Leaders
     
  • Are Facilitated Mentoring Programs Beneficial? A Randomized Experimental Field Study

Short Articles

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• These articles discuss highly effective mentoring at work

  • Your Science Avengers: How to Assemble Your Mentoring Team (M. Chiara Manzini, Ph.D.)
     
  • I Felt Unprepared to Be a Mentor- But It Was time to Pay It Forward (Science article)
     
  • The Magic of Doing One Thing At a Time (Time Management, Multi-tasking, Competing Priorities)
     
  • A New Mindset on Mentoring: Creating Developmental Networks at Work (Kathy E. Kram and Monica C. Higgins)
     
  • Assembling Your Personal Board of Advisors (Yan Shen, Richard D. Cotton, Kathy E. Kram)

Other Mentoring Resources

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• Find links to internal and external mentoring organizations, programs, handbooks, and other relevant resources.

  • Partial Listing of Mentoring Programs at Health Sciences Universities
     
  • Miscellaneous Mentoring Resources
     
  • List of Selected Articles