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This template rubric can help you assess the state of development of your department/program from the stage of considering a mission statement to having highly developed mission statement across several key areas:

• clarity of purpose
• identification of scope and stakeholders
• acts of service and contributions to access and equal opportunity, community engagement, and inclusion in graduate education
• alignment with core values and missions across the department, field, research group(s), university, etc.

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Purpose

This worksheet can help you identify your core values, or the ways of thinking and being that you hold most important. It can also help you explore how to practice living your core values through decision-making and actions in academic and professional relational environments, such as within a research team or a one-to-one mentor/mentee relationship.

Instructions

Step 1

Review the comprehensive, but not exhaustive, list of values in this resource.

Step 2

Identify and circle up to 10 values that resonate most with you.

Step 3

Reflect upon the 10 core values you identified and select the 5 values most important to you. Next, select the 2 core values that are essential to who you are and underlie your actions.

Step 4

After you identify your 2 core values, complete this worksheet to capture:

• How do you already, or aspire, to demonstrate your core values within your professional and academic relationships?
• What tendencies do you have that may be misaligned with your values?
• What circumstance might make it difficult to act in accordance to your values (e.g., times of stress, conflict, etc.)?

Step 5

Identify a few tactics to realign your decisions with your core values.

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Purpose

The FAIM Guide to Establish Research Group Shared Expectations is a practical tool for research group discussions in the following areas:

• communicating and clarifying the mission of the research group;
• defining shared values for scholarly engagement within the group;
• sustaining and refining shared values;
• establishing community norms and standards; and
• creating and maintaining supportive and productive research environments.

Mentors and mentees can use this tool to individually reflect and then collaboratively discuss, set, communicate, and refine their shared group expectations.

Step 1

All group members should review the prompts in this resource as well as the FAIM Identifying and Defining Your Values worksheet independently ahead of a group meeting to prime themselves for a productive discussion.

The FAIM Identifying and Defining Your Values worksheet can help you identify and explore how to live your core values through decision-making and behaviors in academic and professional relational environments.

Step 2

Schedule a research group meeting dedicated to creating shared expectations agreements.

Step 3

During a meeting, the research group should discuss each item, and individual group members should share their thoughts. The faculty mentor should help make sure every group member has an opportunity to share their reflections and ideas before, during, and/or after the group meeting.

Step 4

Codify the group’s collective shared expectations agreements.

Step 5

Cyclically engage in discussions to refine the research group shared expectations, especially during times of transition (e.g., project completion, changes to the group’s composition).

Notes

Research Group Guidebooks, Manuals, etc.

Developing a shared expectations agreements is distinct from a group guidebook. The former requires dialogue and co-construction within the entire group, whereas the latter is prescribed by the head of the research team, or faculty mentors. A sample handbook can be found here.