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UIS is offering members of the IT community the chance to join a virtual speed mentoring event. This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved with the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Stephen Riley – Chief Operating Officer
• Kate Livingstone – Head of Digital Transformation
• Richard Hey – Head of Institution Liaison and Relationship Management
• Ron Chambers – Head of Enterprise solutions
• Abraham Martin – Head of DevOps Division

Mentoring can be a really useful tool in supporting colleagues to develop their professional lives and careers, in both roles as a mentor and mentee. UIS facilitates a mentoring scheme exclusively for the University's IT community and UIS' internal staff.

This is a self-taught course (Unit 1) and part of UIS' Mentoring training journey, for all mentees and mentors enrolled in the 2021-22 programme Complete Unit 1 before attending the in-person workshop (Unit 2: Mentoring in practice)

For Mentors: Read the PPD Mentoring Guide and we highly recommend reading the following pages:

• Role of the mentor
• Questioning skills
• First meeting
• Grow Technique

For Mentees: Read the PPD Mentoring Guide and we highly recommend reading the following pages:

• Role of the mentee
• Setting SMART objectives

New colleagues to UIS are invited to join a welcome event to meet our Chief Operating Officer, Steve Riley and members from our Administration and HR Office.

Please complete a one-to-one catching session by booking a 1 hour meeting with Rinku Raina rr541@cam.ac.uk.

A workshop session exclusively for UIS colleagues who have been nominated to be a 'buddy' to support new joiners to the organisation.