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Help Students Build the Skills They Need to Thrive

As educators and advisors, you help students build the confidence, skills, and connections they need to thrive in their programs and future careers.

Explore the ready‑to‑use resources below to support your guidance and advising and help strengthen student learning.

Skills for Success

Skills for Success are nine transferable skills that help learners understand information, solve problems, collaborate effectively, and adapt to new situations.

Skills for Success help us:

Strengthen students' readiness for work-integrated learning and employment

Strengthen students' readiness for work-integrated learning and employment

Support smoother transitions into, through, and beyond post‑secondary education

Support smoother transitions into, through, and beyond post‑secondary education

Use shared language in assignments, discussions, and feedback

Use shared language in assignments, discussions, and feedback

Guide students in recognizing strengths and identifying growth areas

Guide students in recognizing strengths and identifying growth areas

Use tools that support your guidance.

Help learners explore programs connected to their career interests with the Navigator.

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Mentoring in Post Secondary Education

Mentoring helps you support students’ goals through quick check-ins, timely encouragement, and conversations that connect learning to what’s next. Use the resources below to strengthen your practice and keep mentoring consistent across student interactions.

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Building Effective Mentoring Relationships in Post-Secondary Education

In this training, you’ll turn everyday interactions with students into intentional mentoring moments, clarify mentor roles and responsibilities, and explore evidence-informed strategies you can use right away.

Mentoring Resources

Evidence-informed mentoring resources support student goals across programs.

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Building Effective Mentoring Relationships in Post-Secondary Education: Summary of Key Insights and Strategies

Summary of key insights and strategies to help you transform their everyday interactions with students into powerful mentoring moments.

Uncovering and Unlearning Common Mentoring Biases

This guide explores five common mentoring biases and provides practical steps to unlearn them.

Understanding Intersectionality in Mentoring

Intersectionality helps mentors see the whole student – not just one part of their identity.

Expand your knowledge.

Visit the Mentor Canada Knowledge Hub