Hello, and welcome. I'm Anne Libby, your course director. I'm glad you've joined us for the module on mentorship. In this module, my colleagues and I will cover the key elements for effective mentoring. In fact, mentoring builds on many of the same skills as leadership and management; self-knowledge, and communication. You'll also gain practical mentoring tips from some of my very favorite research leaders and master mentors, all extremely experienced senior scientific leaders. I strongly recommend that after each lecture, you watch the interviews for valuable information and personal experiences on reflections. Mentorship is a critical element for your professional development as an academic and research leader. You probably have experienced mentorship in your own educational career. If you hold a mentored career development award, for example, you may even have a formal mentorship team. As a new research leader, you may be asked to begin mentoring now that you've had some success. Our goal is to help you get the most out of your mentors, and also prepare to become a highly effective mentor. These skills are very much the same. Just as with the other modules in leadership, financial administration, and management, mentorship is a set of skills that you can learn and master. We're going to present evidence-based mentoring skills. One of the critical differences in how we approach mentoring is in our basic beliefs about mentoring and who is the leader of the relationship. We have taught our approach to hundreds of faculty and fellows worldwide, and we're eager to share it with you. We'll talk about the mentor, the person with relatively more experience and expertise to share, and the mentee, the person who seeks to benefit from the mentor's knowledge and experience. Here's a spoiler alert. We believe that the mentee is actually the leader of the mentor-mentee relationship, and that the mentor is simply the facilitator. This puts a different set of responsibilities on the two parties, and defines some core goals for the relationship. We will describe the difference between mentorship and sponsorship, and how to get each type of support. We will help you shift your thinking to being strategic about building your own mentorship team. Finally, we're going to add coaching to your mentoring skills. Coaching is different from, yet compliments mentoring. We hope and expect that this module will amplify the effectiveness of your mentoring, and will take your own mentoring to a new level. We're excited to bring you this work. We encourage you to watch this module with a mentee or a mentoor to build that relationship, as well as build general skills that can be used in any mentoring relationship. With that, let's begin.