Mentoring is a powerful tool to help staff develop their career and can help in addressing workplace inequalities, such as gender, in the medical sector. Most professionals with mentors feel more secure, empowered and valuable at work, highlighted speakers at the first of a recently launched IAEA webinar series on mentorship and gender mainstreaming in human health, radiation medicine and nutrition.
Aimed at enabling knowledge sharing by mentors and mentees, as well as gender focal points, the webinars link next generation leaders with international scientists, executives and global decision makers of today. With concrete examples, each event will demonstrate how mentorship can efficiently and effectively contribute to developing future leaders and to facilitate knowledge transfer for career success.
“The webinar series will help professionals and managers involved in nuclear applications in human health include mentoring as a core element in effective organizational change management,” said May Abdel Wahab, Director of the IAEA Division of Human Health. “We want to highlight the importance of partnerships that create opportunities to achieve positive mentorship outcomes. The webinars will engage role models in the human health sector and connect them with talented women and men within and outside the IAEA.”
…energy, investment of time and a strong commitment are required from both [the mentor and the mentee]…
