Throughout your mentorship, your mentor is going to give you resources to help you improve whatever you need help on. It’s your job to take note of these and really take in the information you’re being given. If you don’t understand something, ask questions! If you end up doing rea...
Likewise, as a mentee, you don't want to be mentored by someone who is about to get fired. So, tying in with the PERCEPTION theme that many of you have heard at my career talks in Florida and Alabama, do the best work you can do, ask questions and be open. Mentors will naturally...
Students can create local chapters onCloud Native Community Groupsto help organize their local group. You can apply to host a grouphereand CNCF has manybest practicesthat you can follow. It is also important to reach out to and work with other student groups in your area like the computer s...
Word will spread quickly that you’re the person to find when they have questions.” There’s a pitfall here. If your expertise comes across as too technical, all you’ll do is cement a reputation as a hopeless geek. Still, there is room for geekiness: It should be quietly applied to...
Mentoring someone in a junior position or intern shows your leadership and team-building skills. Whether or not the mentee is a direct report, mentoring shows that you are interested in supporting the new pipeline of employees and that you have the ability and willingness to lead others to ...
Learning directly from an experienced teacher, one-on-one, is an experience that’s hard to replicate. The resulting professional relationships can be surprisingly meaningful, both for the coach or mentor and mentee.Reverse mentoring is a valuable option, too. In this model, younger or junior em...
This doesn’t have to be someone you work with every day. But ideally, it is someone you have some kind of existing relationship with. You don’t want to cold call someone with an ask to be their mentee. Before you approach them, do your research. Why this person? What do you admir...
founded the Unreasonable Group. And so that’s why I said I was a founding board member and original mentor on it because he was my mentee. Calls to action are important when creating a compelling message. Once people are interested, they always want to know what to do next....
Lastly, if you are successful in taking your mentee to the next level, you will have earned the respect of your co-workers and they will have confidence in your ability to lead and coach them should the opportunity arise in the future. ...
Most schools won’t tell you who will be there on interview day so I learned as much as I could about all the different people so I could ask questions like, “I know you went to this PA school, are you glad you went there or do you wish you went here?” I also did a lot ...