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How to find your mentor?
Perhaps you, members, can help me with this question.
Since I'm working in this profession I was curious and I still am. I want to learn. I read books, read articles/papers, weblogs and also started to maintain my own weblog.
On conferences I'm trying to meet people who are willing to provide me with more information. On EuroStar 2008 I met one of the leading persons in software testing, at least I believe he is. He triggered me that providing information is one thing, asking questions, that was what he did, is a better thing as it makes you think and form an own statement.
Asking questions is also mainly done on forums, only they are more of that type as this question, searching for some help.
- Do you, member, have some experience with finding a good mentor?
- How did you approach such a process, how do you maintain it?
- How did you find the proper mentor? Is there some indirect, direct mentoring, informal/formal mentoring?
- How to identify the level of mentoring you need?
- What if mentors are not willing to spend time?
I'm sure there are more questions to ask. I'm open for suggestions
regards,
Jeroen
Since I'm working in this profession I was curious and I still am. I want to learn. I read books, read articles/papers, weblogs and also started to maintain my own weblog.
On conferences I'm trying to meet people who are willing to provide me with more information. On EuroStar 2008 I met one of the leading persons in software testing, at least I believe he is. He triggered me that providing information is one thing, asking questions, that was what he did, is a better thing as it makes you think and form an own statement.
Asking questions is also mainly done on forums, only they are more of that type as this question, searching for some help.
- Do you, member, have some experience with finding a good mentor?
- How did you approach such a process, how do you maintain it?
- How did you find the proper mentor? Is there some indirect, direct mentoring, informal/formal mentoring?
- How to identify the level of mentoring you need?
- What if mentors are not willing to spend time?
I'm sure there are more questions to ask. I'm open for suggestions
regards,
Jeroen
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Permalink Reply by Ravishankar Gopal on -
Mentor to me should be person u see grow from Raw to Great height the person who is open to share as much knowledge he can,guide you through the difficult path to success
Mentor to you can be ur immediate family member or one of ur relatives who has fought every situation and emerged successfull
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Permalink Reply by Siva Subramanian on -
Hi Jeroen,
I purse in my past experiences on Mentoring more on:
Identify the inbound skill of the person.
Decided the skill can fit for the organization.
Identify the training to convert the inbound skills into feasible one.
Set short goals & long term goals, and then keep track of this goal on periodical basis.
If he fails in achieving the goals, then identify the flaw and try to help him in coming out of that.
Regards,
Siva
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Permalink Reply by Jeroen Rosink on -
Hello Siva,
It is also good to read your post. It is structured as I often think. Looking at your "steps" do you think it is mentoring you are talking about or is it coaching? (I'm aware of the thin line), some posts above I posted a link which claims to show the difference between coaching and mentoring.
Identify the inbound skill of the person I can imagine you need this to see what kind and type of mentoring is needed.
Decided the skill can fit for the organization. and Identify the training to convert the inbound skills into feasible one seems to e choices you made. I see mentoring more as a process where the mentee is able to make decision on their own.
Set short goals & long term goals, and then keep track of this goal on periodical basis I can imagine that this can be done both while coaching as mentoring. Only I see this as an option within mentoring. There might be more options, only not sure which, as they can also be covered by the goals. Perhaps just seeing were it goes.
If he fails in achieving the goals, then identify the flaw and try to help him in coming out of that Interesting point? How would you approach such a process?
You made me curious to ask what are your thoughts about my comments related to your steps?
With regards,
Jeroen
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