Boost Your Career with Mentors and Sponsors
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The document provides tips for millennials to boost their careers through developing mentors and sponsors. It defines mentors as experienced individuals who can provide candid advice, while sponsors are influential people who can champion and vouch for your work. It advises reaching out to potential mentors and sponsors, being specific with requests, and maintaining continued contact. Developing great relationships involves asking for their time wisely and starting small, such as brief coffee meetings. Additional tips include being part of solutions, learning from criticism, taking on undesirable work, and being patient teachers to get ahead. Practical advice involves not making age an issue, keeping phones hidden, carrying notebooks, and dressing appropriately.
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Boost Your Career with Mentors and Sponsors
- 1. Career Boosting Tips for Millennials Jessica Johnson Senior Program Manager, Incident Communications jessica.johnson@salesforce.com In/johnson12
- 2. My Story m y s t o r y
- 4. Mentors and Sponsors A mentor is someone, typically further along in their career, who can give you candid advice about a situation, obstacle, opportunity, or issue you are dealing with. They will often have good advice about how to handle a situation although it may not always be suitable. It is beneficial to have many mentors.
- 5. Mentors and Sponsors - Identify people who you think may have good advice to offer - Reach out to them and ask for time or attention - Provide them with the problem you are dealing with or question you want to ask – the more specific, the better - Be conscientious of their time and don’t take it personal if they are busy
- 6. Mentors and Sponsors - Follow-up on what happened - Continue to ask them for guidance on issues Mentorships develop like friendships
- 7. Mentors and SponsorsMentors and Sponsors A sponsor is someone who is influential in their organization, typically aware of opportunities before their colleagues, and can help champion you for those opportunities.
- 8. Mentors and SponsorsMentors and Sponsors Sponsors must be able to vouch for your work and work ethic, so it is important they are familiar with the work you’ve done. When speaking with a potential sponsor: - Highlight your work contributions - Overview the challenges you’ve faced - Be upfront with lessons learned
- 9. Mentors and Sponsors Mentors can often be great sponsors The key to developing a great relationship with either is continued contact – don’t be afraid to ask for their time, but use it wisely! Start small – ask for a quick coffee break in the morning, walk with them to the next meeting, take each opportunity you get Be specific with your asks, the more specific you are, the more they can help you
- 11. Getting Ahead The reward for good work… is always more work
- 12. Be part of the solution Learn how to take (and give) criticism Take the work no one wants Be patient, be a teacher Getting Ahead
- 14. o Age is only an issue if you make one o Leave your mobile phone out of sight o Always carry a notebook o How you dress matters Practical Tips
- 16. Questions
Editor's Notes
- Before I begin, I would like to say, these slides are branded with Salesforce. Salesforce is my current employer and a fantastic company to work for with amazing customers and products! I absolutely love it and if you are interested in learning more about Salesforce, I am happy to discuss that with you outside of this presentation. Today I am going to talk about my personal story and the great advice I have been given over the years that has helped me develop my career. I am going to focus on specific things you can do to help develop your career whether you are 10 years in or just out of college.
- Before I dive in, I want to provide you with the context of my story, including where I came from, where I’m at. I graduated from Boston University in 2009. Fortunately for me, I finished classes 6 months earlier than my peers and was able to get ahead start finding a job in the worst economy since the Great Depression. At that time I moved from Boston, where I had a job in Photojournalism, which I studied in school, working for the Boston Globe, to Salt Lake City, Utah in order to support my fiancé while he finished school. Shortly after moving and struggling to find a job, I finally got a job as a nanny because I needed to pay bills and start paying off student loans. I was able to leverage that position and my relationship with my boss to learn how to become a consultant. Between changing diapers, playing kung fu master, and running kids to swimming lessons, I learned how everything I could about Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (which is strategies to ensure continuity of critical business processes following unplanned business interruptions). Within three years I was running the firm while consulting Fortune 100 companies on Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery.
- Today I’m going to talk about the difference between Mentors and Sponsors as well as how to get them and develop those relationships. Next, I’ll discuss tips for getting ahead or how to make a leap in your career and finally I’ll offer some practical tips to consider each day.
- A mentor once told me opinions are like belly buttons, everyone has one, so the more mentors you have, the better advice you will get.
- How do you get mentors?
- How do you develop mentorships?
- What is a sponsor?
- How do you get sponsors?
- What is the difference between the two, how are they the same?
- Today I’m going to talk about the difference between Mentors and Sponsors as well as how to get them. Next, I’ll discuss career skills that are helpful, no matter if you’ve been working for 5 years, or just starting your career, and finally I’ll share some practical tips I’ve learned over the last year.
- It can often be difficult to even understand how well you are doing at your job. Some companies have great programs implemented for providing feedback, and some colleagues are great at offering feedback. The truth is a great measure of how good your work is, is if you keep getting more, and folks seek you out for your support and help. Keep this in mind as you work to progress, if you are not perceived as doing well at your job by others, it will be very difficult to get ahead.
- Today I’m going to talk about the difference between Mentors and Sponsors as well as how to get them. Next, I’ll discuss career skills that are helpful, no matter if you’ve been working for 5 years, or just starting your career, and finally I’ll share some practical tips I’ve learned over the last year.
- ADDING: Books, websites, Networking Groups / Ted videos, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Emotional Intelligence, Volunteer in the community – just like I school, diversity your resume