Personality:

• Demonstrates effective leadership skills
• Is enthusiastic
• Is respectful
• Is unselfish
• Is patient
• Is self confident
• Is honest
• Is flexible
• Is sensitive
• Appreciates individual differences
• Supports all trainees irrespective of their faculty affiliation

Teaching and Communication:

• Is an effective communicator
• Is regarded as an excellent teacher
• Makes difficult information and concepts understandable
• Adjusts presentations to audience level
• Welcomes questions and alternative interpretations
• Has an open door policy
• Is a careful listener
• Encourages creative thinking
• Teaches the art of critique
• Coaches people skills, leadership, and teamwork
• Teaches non-academic skills: administration, management, and budgeting

Leadership:

• Provides inspiration and optimism
• Demonstrates ethical conduct of scholarly activity
• Serves as a role model

Mentoring:

• Believes in the importance of mentoring
• Balances guidance and independence
• Celebrates trainee successes
• Treats all trainees as colleagues
• Understands differences among cultural, gender, and ethnic groups
• Solicits advice from other experienced mentors
• Advises trainees to seek out multiple mentors
• Promotes network building
• Promotes personal and intellectual growth of trainees
• Provides opportunities for skills development
• Hones communication skills, research presentations, and teaching
• Assists with manuscript preparation
• Directs development of grant proposals
• Serves as a career advisor
• Fosters independence
• Supports career objectives of students and postdocs
• Wants trainees to be successful
• Assists trainees with identifying and securing their next career opportunity
• Stays in touch after trainees have completed their training
• Derives great satisfaction from following the successful career trajectories of previous trainees