New Advising Professionals

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New Advising Professionals Interest Group
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Tips for New Advising Professionals

• Utilize New Advisor Development Chart and
  determine strengths and weaknesses.
• Network with and seek out other student services
  professionals and advisors on your campus.
• Be aware of the type of advising structure your
  office or institution uses as well as your place
  in that structure.

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Tips for New Advising Professionals

• Be aware of your department/institutional mission
  statement and try to tailor your work with
  students to fit within this framework.
• Find a mentor or somebody you can talk to and ask
  advice of.

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Characteristics of Good Advisors

• Genuinely enjoy students
• Relate to advisees of many cultures, ethnicities
  and educational backgrounds
• Open and friendly
• Knows their limits and makes referrals
  accordingly
• Caring and empathetic
• Reassuring, trustworthy and inspires confidence
• Excellent listener

• Good sense of humor
• Can deliver hard news in a caring way
• Willing to ask for help
• Effective communicator
• Calm in a crisis
• Asks probing questions
• Flexible and adaptive
• Good at multitasking
• Non-judgemental
• Technology adept

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Useful NACADA Information

• Clearinghouse on academic advising
• Publications and Monographs
• Conferences and Webinars
• NACADA Graduate Certificate in Academic
  Advising/Academic Advising Masters Degree

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Sessions for New Advisors

• C164 - Involvement in NACADA Charting Your
  Route
• C192 - Programs, Problems Protocol Help for a
  New Advisor
• C198 - New Advisors Are your ready for the
  Voyage?
• PAN 237 - Beginning the Journey Your First Year
  as an Academic Advisor
• C 262 - Navigating NACADA Resources for
  Professional Development
• C 136 - Documentation as an Advising Tool

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Questions Discussion