<aside> <img src="/icons/book-closed_orange.svg" alt="/icons/book-closed_orange.svg" width="40px" /> Core Expectations

• Meet with your mentor regularly and/or engage in mentoring activities in person (or online as a backup)
• Be proactive about contacting your mentor and scheduling meetings
• Assume responsibility for acquiring or improving skills and knowledge
• Discuss individual development planning with the mentor
• Be open and honest on goals, expectations, challenges, and concerns so others can help you
• Prepare for meetings and come up with an agenda
• Actively listen and ask questions
• Seek advice, opinion, feedback, and direction from the mentor
• Keep your conversations confidential
• Respect the mentor’s time and resources
• Stay accessible, committed, and engaged during the length of the program
• Comfortably give feedback to the mentor on what is working or not working in the mentoring relationship
• Let the AAO advisers know as soon as possible if you are having a problem connecting with your mentor </aside>