Mentoring Handbook

Handbook for Mentors and Mentees

Mentoring@Iowa Tools for Mentees 

Before Your Mentoring Relationship Starts 

• Contacting Potential Mentors
• Personal SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) Analysis 
• Planning for First Meetings 
• Pre-Mentoring Reflection for Mentees

During Your Mentoring Relationship

• Active Listening for Mentors and Mentees
• Best Practices for Mentees
• Creating SMART Goals
• Practicing Giving and Receiving Feedback for Mentees
• Resolving Conflict Within the Mentoring Relationship
• Sample Mentoring Agreement 

After Your Mentoring Relationship 

• Closing the Mentoring Relationship (for Mentees)

Mentoring@Iowa Tools for Mentors

Before Your Mentoring Relationship Starts 

• Personal SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) Analysis 
• Pre-Mentoring Reflection for Mentors
• First Meetings Checklist for Mentors 

During Your Mentoring Relationship

• Active Listening for Mentors and Mentees 
• Best Practices for Mentors
• Ethical Expectations of Mentors
• Identity Relevant Mentoring 
• Practicing Giving and Receiving Feedback for Mentors
• Resolving Conflict Within the Mentoring Relationship
• Sample Mentoring Agreement 

After Your Mentoring Relationship 

• Closing the Mentoring Relationship (for Mentors)

Internal Resources 

There are multiple University of Iowa specific resources about mentoring. Please note this is not an inclusive list, just a sampling of current University of Iowa websites that provide additional resources and tools to help you navigate your mentoring relationship. 

• Iowa Eleven Competencies
• Office of Undergraduate Research Mentoring Resources
• College of Nursing A Guide to Mentoring
• Institute for Clinical and Translational Science Iowa Mentoring Academy
• Tippie College of Business Undergraduate Students Peer Mentoring
• Graduate College Mentoring and Professional Growth
• Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Undergraduate Mentoring Program
• Iowa Biosciences Academy Mentoring at the University of Iowa

If you are interested in creating or further developing a mentoring program and/or other mentoring resources, please contact Teri Schnelle (teri-schnelle@uiowa.edu) for assistance.