For mentors the perceived gains at 6 months and 1 year often exceeded pre-mentoring expectations; mentoring yielded some unexpected rewards.
We aimed to: (i) pilot the mentoring scheme, (ii) evaluate the health-related and attitudinal benefits mentees gained from the experience in terms of self-esteem, self-efficacy, job-related wellbeing, work interference with family and job satisfaction and (iii) compare both mentee and mentor pre-mentoring expectations, to achievements and gains at 6 months and 1 year follow-up.
This helped to manage mentors' expectations.
This chapter highlights the types of mentors, expectations in mentoring relationships, identification and management of mentoring interactions and transitioning to colleague status.
Despite these gains, mentees' prior expectations were shown to be unrealistically high, but mentors' expectations were exceeded.
This was used to inform the themes described as mentee and mentor expectations and achievements/gains (scales available from authors).
The workshop is normally held immediately after Fellows have reported to their host institutions to give them a chance to reconcile their own and their mentors' expectations at an early stage.
Topics included not only traditional "mentor" expectations such as support roles and career advising, but also discussions on how to deal with specific issues and problems previously encountered by facilitators, such as conflict among group members, work-life balance, and illness and maternity issues.
The study aims to: (i) to pilot a mentoring scheme for female academics; (ii) to compare various health-related and attitudinal measures in mentees at baseline, 6 months, and 1 year into the mentoring relationship and, (iii) to compare pre-mentoring expectations to outcomes at 6 months and 1 year follow-up for mentees and mentors.
There is also little literature concerning pre-mentoring expectations in comparison to what mentees perceive they have achieved and what mentors perceive they have gained from the experience [ 15].
Overall, gains at 6 months and 1 year exceeded pre-mentoring expectations.
