Mentoring as a senior responsibility
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see mentoring as part of the senior role, not a favor.
Planned topics
- Senior impact includes raising the engineers around you; your output multiplies.
- Mentoring costs time; plan it as work, with a schedule and goals.
- The aim is independence: the mentee should need you less over time.
- Mentoring differs from teaching a skill (explaining) and sponsoring (advocating for opportunities); good mentors do all three as needed.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
A mentoring agreement: goals, meeting cadence, what the mentee brings, what the mentor offers, how progress is reviewed.
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What is the aim of mentoring?
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Growing the mentee's independence.
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