SYCL Mentoring Connections is a program designed to help guide young professionals through early career development and prepare them to become future leaders. The result is a life-long connection that adds value to both sides of the mentoring relationship.

Applications for the 2026 program are now closed.

This is a great program. It is nice for a mentee to have someone willing to make connections with and even meet up at the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) Annual Meeting. Always nice to see a friendly face that has genuine concern and is willing to pull a new individual into what can be a tight-knit community despite its size.

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Key Benefits of Mentee Participation

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Higher performance & productivity

 

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Reinforcement of valuable skill sets & continuous learning

 

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Supportive feedback, help with problem-solving & decision-making

 

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Expanded peer networks

 

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Greater career satisfaction

 


Seeking a mentor? Fill out a mentee profile form.

Key Benefits of Mentor Participation

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Sense of pride in seeing a mentee learn & grow

 

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Enhance leadership skills and build a professional legacy

 

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Opportunity to positively influence others and “give back”

 

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Expanded peer networks

 


Interested in becoming a mentor? Fill out a mentor profile form.

Key Benefits of Mentee Participation

  • Higher performance & productivity
  • Reinforcement of valuable skill sets & continuous learning
  • Supportive feedback, help with problem-solving & decision-making
  • Expanded peer networks
  • Greater career satisfaction

 


Seeking a mentor? Fill out a mentee profile form.

Key Benefits of Mentor Participation

  • Sense of pride in seeing a mentee learn & grow
  • Enhance leadership skills and build a professional legacy
  • Opportunity to positively influence others and “give back”
  • Expanded peer networks

 


Interested in becoming a mentor? Fill out a mentor profile form.

SYCL Mentoring Connections

The SYCL Core Committee will create mentor-mentee pairs based on the information collected from the profile submissions. Knowledge, skill, and experience levels will be aligned with each participant's goals to establish a mutually beneficial mentoring relationship.

The SYCL Core Committee will support the mentor-mentee pair for 12 months to ensure the relationship is fulfilling the needs of both participants. Additional resources about successful mentoring relationships will be provided, and the committee will actively gather participant feedback to improve the program continually.

The hope is for the mentoring connection to become a lifelong learning relationship. After the completion of the first year, participants may continue to meet at their discretion.

Requirements and Expectations

  • Mentors and mentees must be current ADLM members.
  • Mentors must have been in a post-training position for at least 2 years.
  • Mentees must be current members of SYCL. (Mentors do not have to be members of SYCL.)
  • Participants must attend a one-hour orientation at the beginning of the program.
  • Participants must commit to at least one monthly interaction. (More interactions are encouraged!)
  • Participants should respond to requests in a timely manner.