Friday Sep 13
13:50 –
14:20
The Surprising Truths Behind Good Mentoring
Most technical leaders are either actively mentoring, or are aspiring to mentor, the next generation of technical leaders.
When we start as mentors, we've often got some ideas about what it means to be a mentor, and how to do a good job of being a mentor. I'm here to tell you that most of those ideas are probably wrong, and you'd be surprised by what good mentoring, and being a good mentor, actually looks like.
In this session I will share the key lessons I have learned from mentoring a diverse range of technical and non-technical people. They are lessons I learned the hard way - by having my own assumptions invalidated by trial and error, starting as a poor mentor, and working my way one lesson at a time toward being a good mentor.
