Grad Grow Learning Opportunities

Often mentees are passive in their relationships with mentors, leaving it up to the mentor to direct the relationship. "Mentoring up” is a concept that empowers mentees to be active participants in their mentoring relationships by shifting the emphasis from the mentors’ responsibilities in the mentor-mentee relationship to equal emphasis on the mentees’ contributions. This chapter on "Mentoring Up" from The Mentoring Continuum offers specific strategies that mentees can use to consciously contribute to and guide the mentoring relationship. 

Negotiation is a critical skill for professional advancement. Yet as Stanford Business School Professor Margaret Neale shows, women are judged more harshly for negotiating than men are. In this video, she offers strategies for addressing gendered expectations during the process of negotiation. She advocates for the reframing of negotiation as problem solving. All videos from this Voice & Influence series on the VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab website include a downloadable discussion guide and links to further resources.

Are you facing the prospect of a job offer with potential for salary or benefits negotiation? Or, just looking to improve your negotiation skills? Either way, check out this video of Stevie Eberle, of BioSci Careers, as she leads a Negotiation Workshop for School of Medicine students. Learn what's negotiable and what's not, how to manage assertiveness, how to maximize joint outcomes, and more. 

The Ombuds is a confidential resource available to all faculty, staff, postdocs, students or other members of the Stanford community. Visitors to the Ombuds office are welcome to discuss any concern that is interfering with their academic or work life. The Ombuds will hear and discuss your concerns, identifying and evaluating options to resolve problems. They can also help you to open avenues of communication and gather more information about your situation.

Hosted by the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Online Feminism Conference of 2014 brought together advocates for feminism, in person and online, to discuss the challenges and possibilities of internet activism. This website provides links and resources for you to learn from and stay connected with the conference. Through the website, you can find stories and videos from the conference, as well as readings to enhance your knowledge and understanding of online feminism and activism. 

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As a professional, you may negotiate more than you do anything else. You will negotiate with your boss, your colleagues, funders and investors, other firms, government agencies, legislative and scientific bodies, the courts, the public and the media. You will negotiate on your own behalf, but also to influence and shape policy outcomes that have an impact on larger communities and even the public as a whole.