Things to consider when you are in a technology leadership or management position when it comes to mentoring. What is the sort of mentor that you need? What is the sort of mentor that you may need to be?

1. Find a mentor,
Be a mentor
David Bolton
@lightningdb

4. What is a mentor?

5. A person who willingly invests their time listening and
dispensing advice and ideas for the purpose of helping
someone improve themselves and their performance.

6. What is an apprentice?

7. A person who willingly asks for, receives, and acts on
advice and ideas for the purpose of improving
themselves and their performance.

8. Competitive Advantage
* Your job is to mentor for the mentored’s
competitive advantage
* Your desire as someone being mentored is
to increase your own competitive advantage
* Reference: Andy Grove’s High Output Management

9. Everyone needs
perspective
Especially when doing new things!

10. Times are a changin’
The mentor you need has changed.
(The mentor you need to be has not.)

11. It doesn’t matter if you’ve gone from
senior developer to team lead, or team
lead to development manager or
development manager to functional
manager or department manager,
you’re now rarer than you were before.

12. Finding a mentor
Previous mentors?
Background?
Number?
Where?
Are they any good?
A boss?

13. Evaluate a mentor
Evaluate mentors based on
the advice they have for a
person that is not you.

14. Now, the people you are
mentoring are usually in a
completely different situation

15. Be a mentor
Your limitations
Your values
Adding value
Discover their path
Outgrowing

16. Biases
* Watch out!
* Search Google for “Cognitive Bias”

17. Coaching?

18. David Bolton
@lightningdb
http://davidbolton.net