Mentorship

Mentorship is so transformational in careers because you're not navigating your career alone.

You have someone that you are learning from.

You have someone that you can observe and model after, benefit from their experience, benefit from what they've learned to do and also not do.

Today, when this podcast episode is airing, it is October 27th, which is National Mentoring Day.

And today I want to talk about the importance of mentorship throughout our careers.

So National Mentoring Day was founded in 2014 in London, England, and is now recognized globally as an important day to honor and celebrate mentoring.

It's a call to unite in mentoring.

And there's this year a theme, one person, one hour.

We've got a guest who has a great background in that.

She helps administer the Green Bay Packers Mentor-Protege Program, which we'll talk more about.

She's involved with the Small Business Survival Alliance, and she leads AFF Research, which does some work in supporting diversity and hiring, helping companies with suppliers.

It's a great opportunity to learn more about mentoring.

We work with the government agencies and some other corporations, like you indicated, with some suppliers.

But because of that...

We co-created and right now currently we administer the Green Bay Packers Mentor Project Program.

So I have been business owner for more than 21 years.

Welcome to The Critical Path, Project Management and Leadership in Complex Environments.

Episode 42, Mentoring.

Learn faster, lead better.

In our programme, we invest enormous effort in technical capability, schedules, risk registers, procurement, assurance and governance.

It comes from professional judgment developed through experience, feedback and learning from others.

That brings us to today's topic.

Mentoring.

Why does it matter particularly for leadership? What does really show? How do you find a good mentor? And can shadowing someone at work accelerate your development? Let's explore.

And so I wanted to start a series today of these discussions around biblical truth, around common online business and marketing strategies.

So there are certain online business strategies and mindsets and kind of things that are presented to us as online business owners and marketers that there's a lot of like kerfuffle around whether these are things that we should as Christian business owners and Christian entrepreneurs, should we be embracing them? And this is a real thing because in my mentorship, in the Build With Faith mentorship, one thing that's really, really important to me is that we not compromise on our faith, that we don't negotiate our faith.

When we're doing business out here online, we don't do that.

And so, you know, as we're coming into this place of talking about these different marketing and business concepts or strategies that are offered out here, I think that it is front of mind to ask yourself the question, is this kingdom? Is this biblical? Because at the end of the day, if you have to compromise on your faith, negotiate on your beliefs so that you can be successful, that doesn't sound right.

We have to position ourselves for pouring out.

This is a big principle in my community.

So, you know, I told you earlier, I've got this mentorship called the Build With Faith Mentorship, and it sits inside of a community.

Now, many times people have been like, Erica, this is so confusing.

After Roofing Text Line 21095, you had one that you brought up to me.

Yeah, this one from Chuck in Mentor.

Look at new video of LeBron James yesterday swinging his arms during the National Anthem.

Pathetic individual.