A mentorship program by Anit Shrestha.
🙋♀️ This is where the mentorship begins. Make a mentorship request by creating a new issue.
But before that understand the basics below.
Most successful people can point to one or more people that have been particularly important to their growth and development. These people are mentors.
Mentors can serve many purposes. Sometimes they will help an individual with immediate needs, helping them solve pressing problems, getting important information or learning a skill quickly. Other times it provides long term support and guidance. Regardless of the specific need being addressed, mentoring is a giving/receiving relationship for everyone involved. It is about helping each other to expand and grow so that everyone wins.
Mentor The mentor’s role is to share experience, insights and feedback that will guide the mentor in the achievement of his or her learning objectives. Listening plays an important part in the mentoring role – listening to understand the mentee’s goals and to uncover key learning opportunities that support those goals.
The mentee’s role is to manage the mentoring partnership. Since the partnership is focused on the mentee’s learning objectives, it is essential that potential mentees devote time to clarifying professional goals and identifying strengths that will promote the achievement of those goals and development areas that may be obstacles.
Time is very limited for both mentor and mentee so the process of conversation must be made as effective as possible especially by the mentee. So before asking any question, do your homework well, do more research, learn from various sources, and finally ask the mentor.
Ask the question clearly by providing as much information and reference possible so that the mentor understands the question precisely. Some tips below:
What are the problems that you are facing? Write clear and concise description of what you think should have happened and what actually happened.
How would you solve the problems? Write a clear and concise description of any alternative solutions that you've considered.
Additional context that you would like to add. Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.
Before requesting for mentorship, please read articles below
- https://hbr.org/2017/11/what-mentors-wish-their-mentees-knew
- https://hbr.org/2020/08/what-efficient-mentorship-looks-like
- https://hbr.org/2020/01/how-to-build-a-great-relationship-with-a-mentor
- https://www.apa.org/education/grad/mentoring
- https://cdn2.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2015/10/Mentoring_Guide.pdf