Session 3A: Mentoring: everyone’s talking about it, how to do it right
Tracks
Track 1
| Friday, May 13, 2022 |
| 1:50 PM - 2:30 PM |
| Soundings Theatre, Level 2 |
Details
Let’s use this session to talk through some FAQs and top tips for mentoring, including: Who is the best mentor for you? How do you make the most of the experience? And can anyone be a mentor or do you have to be special and leadership-y?
Speaker
Dr Juliet Rumball-Smith
Chair
Wāhine Connect Trust Board & MoH
Mentoring: everyone’s talking about it, how to do it right
1:50 PM - 2:30 PMFinal Presentation
Presentation Overview
There are squillions of benefits to mentoring. Organisations are into it because it's so good for workplace culture, employee retention and job satisfaction. Mentees seek it out when they have issues or concerns, but mentoring is also highly beneficial for the mentors themselves. So let's use this session to talk through some FAQs and top tips for mentoring , including: Who is the best mentor for you? How do you make the most of the experience? And can anyone be a mentor or do you have to be special and leadership-y?
Biography
Juliet is a public health physician and epidemiologist, currently Clinical Lead for the COVID-19 Immunisation and Vaccine Programme and Group Manager Clinical Quality & Safety CVIP at the Ministry of Health. She is also Clinical Director for Precision Driven Health and a policy consultant for the World Health Organisation. Juliet is Chair and Founder of the Wāhine Connect Charitable Trust, an organisation and mentoring network established in 2017 to support women in the health sector. Rumball-Smith has held previous international positions, including being 2016/17 New Zealand Harkness Fellow in Healthcare Policy & Practice (based at the thinktank RAND in California), senior research fellow at the University of Toronto, and a post-doctoral research fellow at McGill University. Her medical and research career has been varied, including focussed work on equity, women's health, primary care, data-driven and digital supports for quality of care, and public health. Juliet currently lives with her husband and four children in Wellington.
Facilitator
Helen Fulcher
GP
