Overcoming Mentoring Challenges

Ep. #8: Mentoring is one of the most powerful tools for developing talent and leadership… it’s also often taken for granted as something anyone who’s been working for awhile can do. So we end up with senior practitioners going into a managerial track with no management training, and no real mentoring experience. And yet, think about how important managers have been in the jobs you've had, whether they've been good, or bad. Mentorship is part of management, but it's also a practice unto itself. Being a good mentor doesn’t just happen — it takes intention & thoughtfulness, empathy and self-awareness. In this episode I'm talking with Kim Crayton, who is a business coach and a champion for many issues in tech, including diversity, inclusion, and also an expert on mentoring among many other topics in education and technology. I saw a talk Kim gave on overcoming the challenges of mentoring and asked her to talk with me about how we can become better mentors. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/uxcake. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.