CALM ​- Career and Life/Leadership Mentoring 

 Early to Mid-Career Academic Staff  Testimonials: School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
“What I valued most about the experience was learning about communication strategies, particularly those specific to difficult conversations. I cannot overstate how much of a positive impact this made on my daily working life. It enabled me to be more efficient with my work and achieve more (in research, teaching and the other aspects of my job) and definitely reduced my overall stress levels.”
”I loved our work together and found it very rewarding to have a mentor who could also look at my life goals with me…What definitely was most helpful was our work on reframing how I articulate my academic identity and provoking greater insight into how I sell and present myself.  That was valuable and has helped me within the School.”
“I found this support very valuable for many reasons. It was particularly timely as I was contemplating applying for promotion – the meetings assisted not only in assessing my readiness and getting my application started and drafted, but were particularly useful to ensure I focussed on the bigger picture of how this application fits with and progresses my life goals and career goals.”
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“I can’t explain in words how beneficial working with you has been. For me, it is more from a personal level at this stage. As we keep working together I know this support will assist in my career progression by helping to identify the right type of opportunities for me to be where I want to be. I think this type of support is invaluable and beneficial to many, both female and male.”
“I felt more prepared for my Performance Review as a result of meeting with Pippa, as I was able to look at not only promotion criteria, but also my overall career goals and where I wanted this year to take me in terms of those. I definitely think that the experience and development I have had with Pippa would be of benefit to almost anyone, and I appreciate that I have learnt a lot in being only at B/C level.”
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