The Art of Becoming a Better Mentor and Mentee - Drawing Bugs Activities

Donna Dean and Cynthia Simpson Author

10/17/2016 Added

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Part of workshop on mentoring lead by Donna Dean, executive consultant for Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and retired senior federal executive for the National Institutes of Health, and Cynthia Simpson, the chief business development officer for AWIS. The workshop was tailored to a community of both women and men and faculty, staff and students.

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[00:00:01.749]So, now we're gonna do the activity
[00:00:02.978]that I've been talking about which'll convey communications.
[00:00:05.735]It's in your workbook, the Drawing Bugs Activity,
[00:00:08.432]and the instructions are also in your workbook,
[00:00:10.592]but I'll have them up on the slides here.
[00:00:13.385]The rules are no questions, no talking, no sharing.
[00:00:15.826]This is like an exam.
[00:00:17.524]Do not look at other people's papers,
[00:00:19.659]do not share information.
[00:00:21.903]All right, I'm gonna read the instructions,
[00:00:23.359]again you can follow along in the workbooks,
[00:00:25.255]they're in there,
[00:00:26.646]and draw as
[00:00:29.700]we go through the steps.
[00:00:32.280]The first step, the bug is round.
[00:00:38.228]The second step, the bug has eight legs grouped in pairs.
[00:00:42.447]Four legs are on the left, four legs are on the right.
[00:00:47.340]And in the pairs, one leg is longer than the other.
[00:01:00.729]The bug has two eyes on top of the body.
[00:01:07.014]The bug also has two squiggly antenna.
[00:01:19.289]The bug has two pea-pod shaped wings.
[00:01:29.327]The bug has a spot next to each of those wings.
[00:01:39.688]The bug has a triangular stinger on the bottom of the body.
[00:01:50.413]The bug has two feelers on each foot,
[00:01:52.856]one is longer than the other
[00:01:55.062]and both are coming from the same side of the leg.
[00:02:07.412]The bug has a round mouth placed between the two eyes.
[00:02:17.306]The bug has laid five square eggs
[00:02:19.804]to the left of the stinger.
[00:02:29.095]Does anyone have Bingo?
[00:02:32.911]All right, now I'd like you
[00:02:34.059]to hold up your pieces of paper.
[00:02:35.903]What bugs did you draw,
[00:02:37.597]and look at each other's to see if they're alike.
[00:02:42.164]And I understand that in some context
[00:02:44.279]the instructions were a little vague,
[00:02:47.282]but they were the same.
[00:02:53.432]All right, we have some differences, different bugs.
[00:02:58.112]Different bugs.
[00:03:01.894]Very good, all right.
[00:03:03.381]I see, actually, a little more similarities here,
[00:03:07.494]but there are differences.
[00:03:10.655]So, if you were to follow the instructions
[00:03:14.289]your bug would probably look something like this.
[00:03:18.475]This is a great example of communications,
[00:03:21.590]and when I was talking earlier about
[00:03:24.597]being understood, what's conveyed,
[00:03:27.728]how you interpret it.
[00:03:29.630]It was the same instructions that I read to all of you.
[00:03:33.648]Your interpretation of those instructions varied.
[00:03:38.845]And, in fact, the eggs on this one are on the wrong side,
[00:03:42.667]so for those of you who are
[00:03:44.396]directionally challenged like myself,
[00:03:47.047]or when you say right-right and left-left
[00:03:49.533]and you actually have to point,
[00:03:52.278]that could have been a factor
[00:03:54.169]if you found your eggs on the wrong side.
[00:03:57.744]Again, this helps to underscore the difference between
[00:04:02.555]communications in terms of
[00:04:05.454]how you interpret what's being said,
[00:04:08.398]and the context that you're putting it in.

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