(Wall Street Journal) — Most young managers view having a mentor as their ticket to the big leagues—to greater visibility, exciting assignments and big promotions. Benefits flow to mentors as well, as ...

Bad mentor stories are everywhere in academe. Earlier in my career when I coached doctoral students, some version of “I am having problems with my mentor” surfaced more than just about any other issue ...

Mentors are important. Studies have found that having a mentor makes you more likely to get a promotion and more likely to stay at your organization for at least five years. That’s a win/win for ...

You’ve been working at your company for a while now and you are approached with a new opportunity: coworker mentorship. When you start a new job, you often have a transition period to learn how to be ...

Nightmares surrounding STEM PhDs are plentiful — classic examples are the student who spends 14 hours a day in the lab, the coworker who sabotages others’ experiments and the newly graduated student ...

While it’s customary--for! good! reason!--to lament the long list of awful things about 2018, one thing that’s legitimately good is that Tenure, She Wrote is up and running again. This week’s post, by ...

My institution, New College of Florida, is the nation’s top public college for producing undergraduates who go on to earn Ph.D.s. More than 80 percent move on to graduate school within six years of ...

Nightmares surrounding STEM PhDs are plentiful — classic examples are the student who spends 14 hours a day in the lab, the coworker who sabotages others’ experiments and the newly graduated student ...