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MentoringNet

I ran across MentoringNet in a recent renewal flyer from ACM . I'm interesting in all things mentoring, so I went to look. It's interesting, a matching service for mentors and proteges, but unfortuneately focused on college students mainly. It's also email based (unless you happen to live...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 07-14-2008
Link: Avoiding Burnout

Ran across this article about burnout and thought it worth posting. Burnout is not fun to experience and heading it off isn't always easy, especially for those of us in IT. At least take a second and read the symptoms, maybe even if you're fine you'll recognize that someone else in the office...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 05-29-2008
Post Event Notes on SQLSaturday #3

Our 3rd SQLSaturday went amazingly well due to the efforts of Brian Knight and his volunteers. Attendance for the day was a massive 275 people! The day started well with wait time for check in no more than 5 minutes and everyone was patient thanks to our "greeter" Scott. Having someone working...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 05-04-2008
More on Mentoring

Two weeks ago I did five posts on mentoring, and based on that I received a couple interesting notes, here is one, posted with the permission of the sender: " I have been in the position of having a mentor. A good mentor is the best friend and guide you can have. Of course, a bad mentor can do serious...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-28-2008
Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 5

As a mentor I'm looking for someone with the drive to learn and grow, and willing to acknowledge that they don't know it all yet/could possibly learn something from me. It's certainly not that I know it all, I'm reminded daily that is not the case! But if they can't admit openly areas...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-17-2008
Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 4

One of the dangers of mentoring someone on your team is that you can easily be perceived as biased, and the protege as the 'teachers pet'. In fact those are pretty close to the truth! It just doesn't work to mentor someone that you don't believe in and because of that, you'll give...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-16-2008
Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 3

I think sometimes a lot of what we call mentoring might be appropriately called coaching. Before you go trying to build a mentoring platform in your organization, make sure you've implemented the following: Requesting (requiring just doesn't work) that each employee build a professional development...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-15-2008
Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 2

It's always good to find a book or two on a subject when you want to be good at something. I grabbed two from Amazon, the first being The Elements of Mentoring ($15) and I've found it to be a very good book. It's actually written by a mentor/protege pair! The book breaks mentoring down into...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-14-2008
Thoughts on Mentoring - Part 1

Mentoring is something I think a lot of us wish for and that few of us find. Few businesses encourage it and even if they do, in my experience it's absolutely about chemistry - can't be an arranged marriage! It's been on my mind lately as in the course of a few weeks I've had several...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-13-2008

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