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Franklin W. Olin, |
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Real Mentors Tell You This! Presentation
Description: Professional employees are now
routinely encouraged to have career mentors and many firms have formal ‘match-up’ programs to
enable these relationships. Engineering students have faculty advisors, but
are wise to utilize broader circle of on-campus or industry mentors. Finding
an accomplished mentor who has the time to be fully committed to someone else’s success can be difficult. Beyond advising on topics such as whether
to choose job A over job B, grad school or industry, or answering routine
questions like, "how did you get where you are today?", a good
mentor should be a terrific complement to one’s
manager or faculty advisor and must be capable of having frank and direct
conversations with proteges. These on-going exchanges should stress planning
for success, execution, inspection, articulation, the need to net, presenting
data, presenting oneself, self-examination and corrective action, ownership,
leadership, consistency, and a ‘can
do’ attitude. Engaged mentors
tell their proteges how to anticipate and prepare for “obvious” questions, when
to speak up and when to shut up, how to collaborate to win, about personal
resiliency, gut checks, ego checks, derailment factors, and what to do when
you’re in trouble. "Real Mentors Tell You
This", author Regina Darmoni reveals the lessons every working
professional should learn, internalize and demonstrate in order to advance
their careers. These lessons have been learned from her own successful
mentors in her twenty five year career in engineering and business. About the
Speaker: Regina
Darmoni is
an executive at IBM Corporation. She holds a B.S. from Having
spent over a decade in the martial arts, |
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