Always we need someone in our success or in our daily activities we perform. Today i want u to get a few tips about role of mentors in your daily performance.Enjoy and give us your comment my best reader.
Many great things can happen to you if you find a great mentor.
First and foremost, you will learn lessons that you can apply to many other jobs. The vast majority of leaders in their fields trained under great mentors. Most every great doctor, lawyer, investor and marketer learned her craft from someone else. Some people confuse mentor ship with the old boy network. But you don’t look for a mentor for his or her connections. You look for one who has something great to teach in the field in which you want to learn.
Some young people think they don’t need mentors. They chafe at the role of protégé. Taking on that role means they must admit they don't know much. My overconfident students are the ones who flounder early in their careers. Like it or not, we still live in a world where apprenticeship matters.
A great mentor gives your career an updraft.
If your mentor is on the rise, it is highly likely that she will be promoted or recruited to another company at a higher level. If your mentor is promoted, and you are good at what you do, then you are likely to be promoted along with her. If your mentor is recruited elsewhere, then you will likely be recruited by your mentor to her new company in a bigger role, or you may be promoted to replace your mentor. In either case your career will advance significantly.
How do you identify great mentors?
They are almost always on the fast track in their companies. Look for someone who has been promoted early and often. Ideally, your mentor is someone with whom you have great chemistry, but that is not always possible. If I had to choose between fast career growth and chemistry, I would go with success, which means fast career growth.
Sometimes I read advice about how to establish a relationship with a mentor. In my experience, the relationships either happen naturally or they don’t. You find someone you want to be like, and accept whatever time and advice she is generous enough to offer.
Please keep in mind my advice is meant for someone who wants to rise rapidly themselves, not someone who wants to have a great work-life balance. Learning from a driven mentor requires a lot of sacrifice, because you want to work hard to prove yourself to them.
A truly superb mentor will never be threatened by your success.
She wants to help grow you into a peer, knowing your achievements will reflect well on her. One of my favorite interview questions is: Tell me about some people you have hired and where are they now. My favorite candidates hired people who are now their peers or higher. If they have developed others it is usually a sign they are on the fast track themselves.
A lot of the advice we at Wealthfront give our Silicon Valley clients comes from my experience in venture capital and teaching at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. During my career, I learned a lot from my business school classmate and ultimately Benchmark Capital partner Bruce Dunlevie. It was only through his influence that I was able to grow into a more effective venture capitalist and now CEO.
He’s still someone I turn to for advice. A good mentor relationship lasts long after your job at a single company. The relationship will change and grow over time. Your first job at a successful company will launch your career. A great mentor will help you stay on the fast track.
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