Developing Open Leadership mindset for our learners through mentoring

[malvikasharan]

Title of the session: Developing Open Leadership mindset for our learners through mentoring

Session details

• Session type: Skill-up session

• Keywords: Mentoring, Open Science, Leadership, Skill-building

• Permission to record this session: Yes

Abstract

Leadership skills such as openness, inclusivity, project road mapping, and community building are essential for modern science and research today.
Despite this, these skills are rarely taught.
We believe that scientists and researchers should learn how to effectively lead projects openly, collaboratively, and thoughtfully from day one.
To facilitate this, we created Open Life Science, a 16-week training and mentorship program that prepares early career researchers and academic leaders to become open science ambassadors for their own projects but for the communities around them.
In this session, we will discuss mentoring and training our members in Open Science skills, introduce to the Open Life Science (OLS) program's open source resources, and run a “taster session” where we will touch on some of the important aspects of open research, whilst giving it the feel of a collaborative, informative and classic OLS full-cohort call.

Personal details

• Name or pseudoname of the session lead: @malvikasharan, @yochannah, @bebatut

• Co-leads' names (we recommend involving 2 helpers/co-leads): Listed above

• Email or other ways to contact the session leads/co-leads: [email protected]

• Country of residence and/or compatible Time Zones (provide options): UTC+1

• Would you like to present this multiple times, in other time zones: Would be happy to present once in the morning and once in the evening (our time) to cover the maximum number of time zones.

• Would you like to volunteer to be listed as a wrangler/host for your time zone: No

Is there any help you would like to invite from the community? Please provide below in bullet points.

• Not as of now

• Other comments: The first Open Life Science (OLS) cohort ran from January to May 2020, and applications are currently open for round 2 until 30 June.

• Website: openlifesci.org

[serahkiburu]

Hi @malvikasharan and team, the organising committee reviewed this session proposal and had this to say:

This skill-up session will work on introducing participants to an existing training and mentorship program with an example of what they could learn about Open Leadership. Helping participants with leadership helps make people more confident in their leadership skills and thus helps the diversity of opinions within leadership. We hope that the session leads can introduce participants to their resources and encourage them to make use of those while working with the Carpentries community after the CC @ Home.

We are looking forward to your session, and more details i.e. around scheduling will be shared with you in the coming days. Thanks Malvika!