Katy Dickinson

25 Mentoring Pairs Matched for SEED and PreSEED

Mentor Matching Status
My first 22 email invitations for potential mentors in the Global Sales and Service (GSS) SEED term went out 27 May. The PreSEED emails went out the next day. In the first week after starting these mentor matching cycles, 22 of the 80 participants were matched (28%). This is low for a usual term but with the Sun-Oracle transition uncertainties plus JavaOne this week, it is to be expected. Three more have been matched today already, so responses are picking up.

Both terms will run 15 June - 15 December 2009. The majority of both terms' participants work outside of the USA. Only 7 of the mentor-mentee pairs matched so far are local to each other. Fortunately, quarterly SEED satisfaction reports show no statistical difference between working locally and at a distance. To see how the SEED mentor matching system works, read "SEED: Sun engineering enrichment & development" Research Disclosure Database Number 482013, defensive publication in Research Disclosure, Published in June 2004, Electronic Publication Date : 17 May 2004 (5 pages, PDF format)

Locations

21 GSS SEED Mentee Locations
	Belgium   1,   5%
	France    1,   5%
	Germany   1,   5%
	Hungary   1,   5%
	Italy     1,   5%
	Japan     2,   10%
	Norway    1,   5%
	Slovakia  1,   5%
	Spain     1,   5%
	Sweden    3,   14%
	Switzerland    1,   5%
	United Kingdom 3,   14%
	USA       4,   19%

7 GSS Mentor Locations (so far)
	Germany   1
	India     1
	UK        1
	USA       4


58 PreSEED Mentee Locations:
	9 China,    16%
	2 Czech Rep, 3%
	1 Germany,   2%
	5 India,     9%
	1 Ireland,   2%
	5 Italy,     9%
	2 Japan,     3%
	1 Russia,    2%
	2 Spain,     3%
	1 United Arab Emirates (Dubai), 2%
	2 UK,        3%
	27 USA,     47%

17 PreSEED Mentor Locations (so far)
	Czech Rep   2
	France      1
	UK          1
	USA        13

Posted at 11:54AM Jun 05, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |  Comments[1]

SEED Mentor Matching Off to a Good Start

I started the mentor matching cycle late last week for the 15 June - 15 December 2009 SEED and PreSEED worldwide Engineering mentoring terms. Sheri Kaneshiro is providing support for the extensive SEED web tools designed by Tanya Jankot while Tanya is on leave with her new baby. It takes Sheri and me a little longer to work everything out but we are making good progress now. Since the first invitations to 80 potential mentors went out on 27 May, there have been 12 acceptances (5 for SEEDs and 7 for PreSEEDs). 68 to go!

Today, I was happy to confirm the last of the 15 rematches for mentees from four terms whose mentors left Sun since February 2009. SEED has a standing offer to re-match any mentee whose mentor leaves Sun within three months of their original match. Rematches are for a full six months. For some reason, rematches take longer than first matches but everyone does get matched in time.

Posted at 10:26PM Jun 02, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

SEED Mentoring Participants Selected

On 14 May, the Global Sales and Service (GSS) executive Selection Committee, made up of six Directors and Vice Presidents, picked the 23 new participants for the 15 June - 15 December 2009 SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring term. This is the second GSS-only term for SEED. There were 38 applicants this term. The selection was very difficult. Participants in the SEED program were chosen based on professional performance, manager and executive recommendations, and the other SEED Selection Criteria.

The SEEDs in our second GSS term are an unusual group in several dimensions: all men, mostly in Europe, plus two countries in which SEED has not had participants working before: Hungary and Slovakia. Compare to the more-usual demographic/geographic distribution of the current PreSEED term announced on 8 May 2009.

The first GSS term also had some unusual metrics. As I reported on 20 November 2008 and 5 March 2009, that GSS term included few women, and was widely distributed geographically, but ended up with 96% mentoring pairs working at a distance (where the mentor and mentee are in another state or country). It will be interesting to see how this second GSS term's mentor matching patterns work out.

The 81 new GSS SEED and PreSEED participants are now researching and writing their 3-learning-goal plus 10-name Mentor Wish Lists, due 22 May.

About the New GSS SEED Participants:

    Location of Participants
	Belgium   1,   4%
	France   1,   4%
	Germany   1,   4%
	Hungary   1,   4%
	Italy   1,   4%
	Japan   2,   9%
	Netherlands   1,   4%
	Norway   1,   4%
	Slovakia   1,   4%
	Spain   1,   4%
	Sweden   3,   13%
	Switzerland   1,   4%
	United Kingdom   3,   13%
	USA   5,   22%

    Gender of Participants
	23 Male, 100%

    6 are Managers, 26%

    6 are prior SEED or PreSEED applicants, 26%

To learn more about SEED and to read SEED participants' blogs, check out http://research.sun.com/SEED.

Posted at 10:28AM May 20, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

Keeping Current

An ongoing challenge of running the SEED worldwide Sun Engineering mentoring program is keeping all of its web pages current. The web pages present information, resources, and reports to SEED mentees, mentors, and managers, help to reduce email traffic, and also support participants so they are less dependent on program staff. However, even with all of the web information, SEED generates over 1,000 email exchanges in an average month. The SEED program staff (Tanya Jankot, Sheri Kaneshiro, and me) maintain many dozens of internal SunWeb pages, plus a few which are external. SEED's web presence has been growing since the program started in 2001.

Today, I have been updating SEED's primary external web page: http://research.sun.com/SEED/, checking links and adding resources. I added some new program reviews and took out older reports which have disappeared since the last update. Here is what we have now:

List of Publications About SEED:
Overview

• "5 Years of Mentoring by the Numbers" by Katy Dickinson, presented at the October 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing (30 pages, PDF format)
• Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development (SEED) Program (Case Study 1): Mentoring Technical Women at Work National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Social Scientists picked SEED among Promising Practices as the Case Study in this report, 2006 (2 pages, PDF format)

2009

• Maria Klawe (President, Harvey Mudd College), Telle Whitney (President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute or ABI), and Caroline Simard (Director for Research at ABI): "Women in Computing - Take 2" February 2009 issue, Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery):
  "Some of the successful approaches that companies may use for recruiting, retaining, and advancing more women in computing, as well as in other technical professions, include:... Implement a mentoring program. Indeed, make mentoring which positively impacts career advancement and satisfaction, a basic part of the organizational culture. Sun Microsystems' SEED program, for example, is regarded as a major step in this direction."
• Computing Alliance of Hispanic Serving Institutions (CAHSI) "Mentoring Lessons Shared" panel member, 16 January 2009, Mountain View, CA. See "News - CAHSI: Developing Leaders Through Mentoring" By BJ Wishinsky, Communities Program Manager, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, January 2009

2007

• Ida Abbott Consulting Management Solutions Issue 17, Winter 2007 "Best Practices - Proving the Value of Mentoring" profiles SEED

2006

• Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development (SEED) Program (Case Study 1): Mentoring Technical Women at Work National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) Social Scientists picked SEED among Promising Practices as the Case Study in this report, 2006 (2 pages, PDF format)
• "Mentors can help women shatter glass ceiling - Senior colleagues can toot your horn, bringing you money and power" by Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC contributor, Nov 19, 2006 (mentoring quote on the 2nd page)
• "20 ways to get promoted in the tech industry - If you agree that there's no such thing as an IT project, you may already be on your way up the ladder" by Dan Tynan, October 16, 2006, InfoWorld (SEED is part of "10. Find Your Yoda")
• "Five Years of Mentoring by the Numbers" 4-7 October 2006 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women and Computing, San Diego Program Schedule for GHC Session 1 - Thursday, October 5, 2006 "5 Years of Executive Mentoring", TechLeaders - Building and Sustaining Change in Technology Cultures: Showcasing What Works (October 4, 2006, San Diego, CA)
• Information Week in Israel, 28 Feb 2006 (in Hebrew, with a photo)

2005

• "Outsourcing is essential for survival of companies" (SEED is mentioned), interview with Crawford W Beveridge, Executive Vice President (People & Places) and Chief Human Resource Officer interview, Deccan Herald > Economy & Business > Detailed Story, April 11, 2005

2004 and earlier

• "Bit by Bit: Mentoring & Practical Approaches to Advancing Women in High Tech" Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing ("GHC 2004") Moderator: Katy Dickinson, 7 October 2004
• Rhonda Holt (VP of Grid Engineering Program Office) interview, DiversitySearch - Up Close & Virtual Interviews, 2004 (mentions SEED)
• "SEED: Sun engineering enrichment & development" Research Disclosure Database Number 482013, defensive publication in Research Disclosure, Published in June 2004, Electronic Publication Date : 17 May 2004 (5 pages, PDF format)
• "Nurturing a Culture of Innovation" Express Computer May 2004 article on SEED program and participants in Sun's India Engineering Center (IEC) in Bangalore
• "Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development Program Fosters Growth New Hires, Experienced Staff Work with Senior Staff Mentors" Paragon Pinnacles > Volume 73 > Issue 3 > Sun Features > (March 15, 2004, Article #12480, Volume 73, Issue 3)
• "Sun Engineering Enrichment and Development Program Fosters Growth - New Hires, Experienced Staff Work with Senior Staff Mentors" Sun System News, March 15, 2004, Article #12480, Volume 73, Issue 3
• "Tapping into the Knowledge Network" www.sun.com article on SEED, 18 Feb 2004 [was featured on both the www.sun.com and research.sun.com home pages]
• "Sun (SEED) program pairs college recruits with senior engineering mentors, 23 Feb 2004 link to "Tapping into the Knowledge Network" www.sun.com article from LSTN (Learning & Teaching Support Network for Engineering section on "UK & World Media News"- now called The Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre)
• "Mentoring and Being Mentored on the Technology Track" by Carla King, published on "developers.sun.com - The Source for Developers", 2003 [Now called Sun Developer Network or SDN]
• Bit by Bit: Catalyst's Guide to Advancing Women in High Tech Companies, SEED is the featured case study in the "Use Mentoring and Networks to Win" section (page 106), book published by Catalyst (Catalyst document #16146), 2003, ISBN 0-89584-243-2

Posted at 01:44PM May 11, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

PreSEED Mentoring Participants Selected

On 6 May, 58 PreSEED Sun Engineering mentoring program participants were selected for the 15 June - 15 December 2009 term out of an applicant pool of 76. The GSS SEED term applicants are being considered now by the executive selection committee, who will give their ratings at our meeting next week. Here is more information on the new PreSEED participants:

About the 58 New PreSEED Participants:

    Location of Participants
	9 China, 16%
	2 Czech Republic, 3%
	1 Germany, 2%
	5 India, 9%
	1 Ireland, 2%
	5 Italy, 9%
	1 Japan, 2%
	1 Russia, 2%
	2 Spain, 3%
	1 United Arab Emirates (Dubai), 2%
	2 United Kingdom, 3%
	28 USA, 48%
		5 Eastern USA
		3 Central USA
		21 Western USA

    Sun Division of Participants
	16 Global Sales & Service (GSS), 28%
	7 Microelectronics, 12%
	7 Software Group, 12%
	3 Storage Group, 5%
	20 Systems, 34%
	5 Worldwide Operations, 9%

    Gender of Participants
	9 Female, 16%
	49 Male, 84%

    20 Prior applicants to a SEED or PreSEED mentoring term, 34%

Posted at 10:33AM May 08, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

SEED and PreSEED Mentoring Applications

Since 14 April, SEED and PreSEED have been receiving applications from Sun Engineering staff to join the worldwide mentoring program. The PreSEED application period closed yesterday (Human Resources is now verifying application information). The GSS SEED application period was extended to 4 May 2009 (Monday). What we have so far:

• PreSEED term
• 76 PreSEED applicants
• 64 complete applications
• Applications from: Belgium (Zaventem), China (Beijing, Chengdu, Hong Kong, Shanghai), Czech Republic (Prague), Germany (Ratingen), India (Bangalore), Ireland (Dublin), Italy (Milan, Padova, Roma), Japan (Tokyo), Russia (St. Petersburg), Spain (Madrid), United Arab Emirates (Dubai), United Kingdom (Camberley, Sale), USA (California, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, & Texas)
• Applicants' Origins include: Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Laos, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, VietNam
• Global Sales and Service SEED term
• 29 GSS SEED applicants
• 16 complete application
• Applications from: Belgium (Zaventem), China (Hong Kong), France (Velizy), Germany (Kirchheim-Heimstette), Italy (Padova), Japan (Tokyo), Netherlands (Amersfoort), Norway (Oslo), Slovakia (Bratislava), Spain (Madrid), Sweden (Gothenberg, Kista, Sundsvall), Switzerland (Zurich), United Kingdom (Camberley, Conventry, London, Sale), USA (California, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Virginia)
• Applicants' Origins include: Belgium, China, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, USA

The GSS term participants will be chosen by an executive Selection Committee. PreSEED has a time-based acceptance process: we will take the first 50 with complete and verified applications.

Posted at 12:03PM May 01, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

Welcome New SEED Mentors

Welcome and Congratulations to the 46 New Mentoring Pairs of the SEED Established Staff (April - October 2009) World-wide All-Engineering Mentoring Term: We are honored and delighted to include them!

This term had a 44 day mentor matching cycle (11 March - 24 April 2009). 77% of the pairs were matched in the first 3 weeks. Two of the participants in this SEED term had also completed a PreSEED term. This term was reduced by 3 mentees leaving Sun after they were matched.

Additional metrics:

• Executive Mentors: 74% of the mentoring pairs include an executive mentor (Vice Presidents, Fellows, Directors, Principal Engineers, Distinguished Engineers, etc.)
• Local vs. Distant: 16 mentoring partners are working local to each other (34%), 31 of the mentors and mentees work at a distance from each other - in another state or country (66%)
• Meeting Priority Requests:
• 87% of mentees were matched with one of their top four mentor requests (41 count)
• 25 mentees were matched with their 1st or 2nd priority mentor (53%)
• 16 mentees were matched with their 3rd or 4th priority mentor (34%)
• 6 mentees were matched with a mentor lower than 4th in request priority (13%)

Posted at 02:53PM Apr 24, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

Photos from the SEED Event

We had 81 people registered for the annual Spring Event by the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program. Fewer actually participated (I think Monday's "Oracle to Buy Sun" announcement caused some sudden schedule rearrangements). However, the event went well and feedback so far has been positive.

A group of mentors and mentees had dinner on Monday night at Mike's Cafe (150 Middlefield Road at Willow, Menlo Park, CA) just a few miles from Sun. Yesterday, we heard two speakers and a panel in the morning, then went on two afternoon tours.

Speakers for SEED's annual Spring Event:

• The keynote speaker is SEED's executive sponsor, Sun's Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development, Greg Papadopoulos spoke about his new book Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering (written with Dave Douglas and John Boutelle).
• Software Engineering Director Meenakshi Kaul-Basu lead a Sun Open Source Discussion Panel including experts on OpenSolaris, OpenStorage, OpenSPARC, and GlassFish
• Principal Investigator Stephen Uhler talked about his ePBX Project in Sun Labs

Greg Papadopoulos

Greg Papadopoulos

Open Source Panel

Meenakshi Kaul-Basu

Valerie Fenwick, Sreeram Duvur Open Source Panel

John Beck, Durgam Vahia, & Lynn Rohrer, Open Source

Steve Uhler ePBX Project, Sun Labs

EBC - Executive Briefing Center

EBC Black Box

EBC Tour for SEED

ETC Tour for SEED

Rob Snevely, ETC Tour

ETC - Enterprise Technology Center

Images Copyright 2009 Katy Dickinson

Posted at 01:36PM Apr 22, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

SEED and PreSEED Mentoring Applications

Since 14 April, SEED and PreSEED have been receiving applications from Sun Engineering staff to join the worldwide mentoring program. All application materials are due 30 April 2009 for both terms. What we have so far:

• PreSEED term
• 35 PreSEED applicants
• 15 complete applications
• Applications from: China (Beijing, Chengdu), Czech Republic (Prague), India (Bangalore), Japan (Tokyo), Russia (St. Petersburg), USA (California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, & Texas)
• Applicants' Origins include: Brazil, China, India, Ireland, Japan, Laos, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, USA, VietNam
• Global Sales and Service SEED term
• 6 GSS SEED applicants
• 2 complete application
• Applications from: Belgium (Zaventem), France (Velizy), Italy (Padova), USA (California, Maryland, Virginia)
• Applicants' Origins include: Belgium, France, Italy, USA

The GSS term participants will be chosen by an executive Selection Committee. PreSEED has a time-based acceptance process: we will take the first 50 with complete and verified applications. During the most recent PreSEED term in 2008, the first 50 applications were completed by the 12th day of the application period.

Posted at 05:00PM Apr 20, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

SEED Event, Plus SEED and PreSEED Application Periods

The annual SEED mentoring program Spring event starts with a dinner on Monday night, followed by a day of talks and tours on Tuesday, 21 April. We have 70 registered to participate so far:

• 51 will be there in person, traveling from Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, France, Russia, Spain, USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Texas)
• 19 are participating remotely, joining the meeting from France, Germany, India, Netherlands, Singapore, UK, USA (Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, Texas)

Since 14 April, SEED and PreSEED have been receiving applications from Sun Engineering staff to join the worldwide mentoring program. All application materials are due 30 April 2009 for both terms. What we have so far:

• PreSEED term
• 31 PreSEED applicants
• 12 complete applications
• Applications from: China (Beijing, Chengdu), Czech Republic (Prague), India (Bangalore), Japan (Tokyo), Russia (St. Petersburg), USA (California, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, & Texas)
• Global Sales and Service SEED term
• 5 GSS SEED applicants
• 1 complete application
• Applications from: Belgium (Zaventem), France (Velizy), USA (California, Maryland, Virginia)

The GSS term participants will be chosen by an executive Selection Committee. PreSEED has a time-based acceptance process: we will take the first 50 with complete and verified applications. During the most recent PreSEED term in 2008, the first 50 applications were completed by the 12th day of the application period.

Posted at 03:52PM Apr 17, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

21 Applicants to PreSEED So Far

Yesterday, I sent out the world-wide all-Engineering announcement that Sun's new PreSEED mentoring term is accepting applications through 30 April. We have 21 applicants already; 7 of the applications are complete. PreSEED has a time-based acceptance process: we will take the first 50 with complete and verified applications. During the most recent PreSEED term in 2008, the first 50 applications were completed by the 12th day of the application period.

One way to think of PreSEED is as a preliminary to Sun's successful SEED Engineering mentoring program. Since 2001, the CTO-sponsored SEED program has a proven track record of strong diversity, very high satisfaction, high regard by management, and high retention. SEED participants as a group earn more promotions and higher performance ratings than Sun overall. Of course, individual experiences will vary.

We set up PreSEED with a time-based acceptance rather than a content-based system like SEED's to accommodate PreSEED's target population: Members of Sun's Technical Staff who have been getting almost all "Sun Standard" (2 or Standard-level) performance ratings. Other aspects of PreSEED (such as the required preliminary discussion between mentee and manager, the required training of mentor-mentee, and the option of joining SEED in the future) are also part of the program because PreSEED's participants are often more junior in terms of professional accomplishment than are SEED's. Since many of the PreSEED applicants are at about the same level of career achievement, we created an acceptance system that did not focus on small or potentially-arbitrary differences in accomplishment. Thus, the time-based acceptances.

Posted at 08:38PM Apr 15, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

SEED mentoring term open for Global Sales and Services

Peter Ryan, Sun's Executive Vice President for Global Sales & Services, today announced the opening of applications for the second GSS worldwide SEED mentoring term. The application period ends 30 April 2009. The first GSS mentoring term started in January; this second term will run from 15 June. The SEED program has been working to develop the two GSS-only terms with 13-time SEED mentor Hal Stern (Vice President, Global Systems Engineering, GSS) for about a year. It is good to get this announced!

Posted at 10:03PM Apr 14, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

PreSEED mentoring term open for applications

Just about two hours ago, I sent out the world-wide all-Engineering announcement that Sun's new PreSEED mentoring term is accepting applications from today through 30 April. We linked up the overview pages a few days ago so potential applicants could review the material and get ready.

The SEED program ran two pilots to test out PreSEED in 2008. This is our second regular PreSEED term. One way to think of PreSEED is as a preliminary to Sun's successful SEED Engineering mentoring program. Since 2001, the CTO-sponsored SEED program has a proven track record of strong diversity, very high satisfaction, high regard by management, and high retention. SEED participants as a group earn more promotions and higher performance ratings than Sun overall. Of course, individual experiences will vary.

PreSEED has a time-based acceptance process (we take the first 50 with complete and verified applications), so I was not surprised to see applications start arriving quickly. So far, eight have come in and one is already complete. Lots of email questions too...

Posted at 01:48PM Apr 14, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

SEED Mentoring Program - Spring Event

Fifty people have already registered for the 21 April event hosted in Menlo Park, California, by the SEED worldwide Engineering mentoring program. Speakers for SEED's annual Spring Event:

• The keynote speaker is SEED's executive sponsor, Sun's Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development, Greg Papadopoulos
• Software Engineering Director Meenakshi Kaul-Basu will lead a Sun Open Source Discussion Panel including experts on OpenSolaris, OpenStorage, OpenSPARC, and GlassFish
• Principal Investigator Stephen Uhler will talk about his ePBX Project in Sun Labs

In addition, there will be afternoon tours and a SEED dinner.

Posted at 05:15PM Apr 01, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  | 

Mentoring in Engineering & Computer Science & Technology Jobs

I am giving two industry workshops called "Mentoring in Engineering & Computer Science & Technology Jobs" this Friday at the National Association of Engineering Student Councils (NAESC) conference in San Luis Obispo (SLO). The sold-out NAESC conference is sponsored by Sun (among others) and hosted by the California Polytechnic State University ("CalPoly"). The material I will talk about includes:

• Mentoring
• What do Mentors do?
• Benefits of Mentoring
• Formal versus Informal Mentoring
• How to Find a Mentor?
• How to Make Mentoring Work Better
• Getting a Job
• Finding an Engineering or CS Job - What Counts?
• Ways to Get Experience Before Getting a Job

The "Getting a Job" section includes some of the same material I developed for the Orion Academy talk I am giving this Saturday (see my 30 March 2009 blog for more). I took the material on the "Formal versus Informal Mentoring" page from my 12 February 2009 blog on that topic. The "Benefits of Mentoring" slide was inspired by a presentation given last year by a great and long-time SEED mentor Mary Artibee:

• Benefits of Mentoring
• For the Mentee
• Working with a master of your craft: learn faster, learn what matters
• Borrow mentor’s network, increased connections
• Start building your professional reputation
• Earn mentor’s good recommendation
• Gain a broader scope, wider perspective, inspiration
• For the Mentor
• A new and direct source: ideas, information, energy
• Paying back, helping as they were helped
• Gain a broader scope, wider perspective, inspiration

My NAESC talk is available for your review even if you are not going to the conference in SLO. Much of the mentoring information in this presentation was developed as part of the SEED Engineering worldwide mentoring program.

Posted at 11:10AM Apr 01, 2009 by katysblog in Mentoring & Other Business  |