How to get a mentor: 10 powerful steps that drive business growth
- E145
- 49:01
- May 5th 2021
Gary MacDougall is the chief technology officer at Pypestream and is a technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of executive-level experience building software, managing teams and successfully bringing products to market. Over time he has refined his unique blend of hands-on development, organizational leadership, and ability to create a development process for execution and delivery and enabling exceptional communication across organizational lines – mentoring motivating, and driving development teams to succeed.
In this episode, he shares his experience and perspectives on how to get a mentor using 10 powerful steps that drive business growth. Insights he shares include:
- What is a mentor
- What does a mentor do
- How to find a mentor
- Why you should consider working with a mentor
- How to build a relationship with a mentor
- What qualities does a good mentor have?
- How to add value to a mentor-mentee relationship
- The key to mentorship and advancement
- 10 steps to finding and developing a mentoring relationship
- and much much more ...
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