Saturday, March 27, 2010
I found the section on mentoring useful, I guess because I was a mentor and I didn’t really realize it. When I had a summer job where I had worked there the previous summer, there was a kid that came to work with us. He was younger than I was at the time, and I guess kind of looked up to me, since he was always asking me for advice about what to do. During the initiation stage, I guess I gave him kind of a hard time, since he could bug me a little bit at times. But eventually I saw that he was a good kid, so I tried to show him the ropes as best I could. I lost track of him after the summer was over, so there was definitely a separation phase, but when I was reading that section, I realized that it pretty much described our relationship.
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At my job the same thing happened to me. I am in a manager position now so a lot of the new staff members come to me with their questions and problems and this could definitely be considered as a form of mentoring. Once summer ends and I go back to school I lose touch with them all so I would call that the separation period. It is always nice to have someone that you can look up too and know you can go to them at any time and ask for advice or an answer to a question that you have.
ReplyDeleteI like how you are able to relate to this topic without even realizing it at first. It is interesting how we use these things on a daily basis without even meaning to. I think it is cool how you are a mentor and that a kid is able to look up to you because I know that is one of the coolest feelings ever. Having someone to look up to you makes you work harder for some reason, and yet we do not even realize that we're doing it until we are forced to look at the situation ourselves.
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