Mentoring: A Newcomer's Perspective

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REA Group runs an 18-month graduate rotation that embeds mentoring into team commitments, uses ticket vouchers to claim teaching sessions (used here to learn AWS), and enforces pairing and coaching. A heuristic called 6/6/6 sets expectations for days/weeks/months. A survey of 11 mentees ranks mentoring effectiveness: one-on-one 4.55, casual pairing 4.27, group sessions 3.09. Mentors must be honest, acknowledge biases, and avoid teaching incorrect practices that will propagate.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:22Mentoring in Technology
3. 5:32Ticket Vouchers
4. 9:04What Is the Mentor
5. 13:14Mentoring Styles
6. 14:18Group Learning Sessions
7. 15:04Casual Pairing Sessions
8. 16:25Mentoring over Coffee
9. 17:06Honesty
10. 19:09Casual Mentoring

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