Meaningful Mentorship (for Developers)

"The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves." - Steven Spielberg

In our world of never ending Stack Overflow answers and Github code reviews, there still remains some knowledge that can only be found through experience. Mentoring relationships are an indispensable part of any developer’s career and allow for experiential knowledge transfer. Programming, as a culture, has an underdeveloped network of mentors. As a community, we need to turn mentorship from a wishful yearly resolution into a cultural reality.

We’ll use research from scholars like Kathy Kram and historical examples of mentor-protege pairs (think: Larry Page/Marissa Mayer ) to get to the bottom of what makes a successful pair tick. Finally, we’ll share some of our experience in putting this research into action so that you may join us in discovering what it takes to cultivate a meaningful mentorship.

First given @ Mountain West Ruby Conf 2015

Transcript

1. Meaningful Mentorship Mary Elizabeth Cutrali & Danny Glunz 1
2. Mary Elizabeth Cutrali Dogs BKLYN, NYC Outer Space Yoga Learning Stuff @marycutrali github/maryelizbeth
4. Danny Glunz Book Books Boulder, CO Startups Traveling Learning Stuff @dannyglunz github/dglunz
5. are we? who
6. What does a mentoring relationship look like?
7. 1. Phases 2. Habits 3. Benefits 4. Repeat
8. Phases
9. Initiation
10. Cultivation
11. Separation
12. Redefinition
13. Habits
14. Make a Schedule
15. Actually Do Work
16. Show Up Don’t Be Rude Prepared
17. Benefits
18. Motivational
19. Employee Happiness
20. Network
21. Repeat
22. the Mentee becomes the Mentor
23. the Mentee becomes the Mentor pt 2
24. Recap
25. 1. Phases 2. Habits 3. Benefits 4. Repeat
26. Thank You! Paperless Post Turing.io
27. Questions?