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ABA Mentorship Program - Description
The ABA Mentorship
Program pairs experienced UCSD managers from academic departments and units and
central administration with newer business officers seeking to enhance their
management skills, better understand the UCSD organizational culture and develop
a network of resources on campus to assist them in their daily work. The
program provides a framework whereby newer business officers can:
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Gain
experience and insight into new job functions
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Take advantage
of training and development opportunities
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Enhance
personal growth
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Gather useful
information
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Cultivate
contacts
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Find peer
support
HOW DOES THE
PROGRAM WORK
The ABA Mentorship
Program provides mentors and mentees a valuable mechanism in which to establish
a relationship and a loose framework for the activities that interactions with
professional colleagues might encompass. Commitment of the mentors and mentees
is important in making this program work.
WHO SHOULD
PARTICIPATE
The program
is targeted towards business officers in Academic Affairs who have been serving
in their current positions for less than one year. Experienced business
officers and managers have been invited to serve as mentors. Mentors should be
willing to be an advisor, coach, or teacher and be willing to share their
experiences with their assigned mentee.
PROGRAM
BENEFITS
To mentees…
- Receive support
and encouragement for professional development
- Learn about
organization cultures at UCSD
- Expand
understanding of how to get things done effectively and efficiently
- Enhance skills and
experience in current and for future positions
- Create and augment
a network of contacts and information channels
- Gain an overview
of the “big picture” of the university
To supervisors of
mentee:
- Realize increased
employee motivation and self-confidence
- Profit from
employee’s exposure to other units and information sources
- Gain staff with
greater capabilities and enhanced skills
To mentors…
- Orient mentees to
academic business management principles
- Support and
develop new business officers
- Communicate and
role model effective management strategies
- Facilitate sharing
of institutional knowledge
To UCSD…
- Gains empowered
staff and well-trained managers at a time of decentralization where
decision-making is forced downward
- Fosters employees’
commitment to UCSD as an employer
- Enhances informal
mechanisms of communication throughout the campus
- Supports and
advances UCSD’s affirmative action goals for diversity at the managerial level
- Passes on oral
history, institutional memory and organizational culture of UCSD to the next
generation of managers
ELIGIBILITY
CRITERIA / REQUIREMENTS
Mentees
- New Academic
Affairs Business Officer
- Has supervisor
approval and support
- Demonstrated
commitment to professional development and learning
- Commitment to
participate and complete mentorship program
- Ability and
willingness to attend meetings, classes, and other related activities (monthly
meetings with mentor, ABA monthly meetings, UC BOI and UCSD BLF programs,
relevant UCSD training/development courses, quarterly evaluation/feedback
sessions)
Mentors
- Experienced
Business Officers or Managers
- Commitment to
employee career development and to the goals of the mentorship program
- Willingness to
share accumulated knowledge and experience
- Available to
communicate regularly with mentee, and to serve as an advisor and resource
- Commitment to
provide guidance and support in accordance with the mentorship program
guidelines
- Ability and
willingness to attend meetings and other related activities (monthly meetings
with mentee, ABA monthly meetings, quarterly evaluation/feedback sessions)
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