Mentoring and Training
To be called upon, either by management or by another project manager,
to be a mentor means that you are considered expert enough to
train others. It means that your abilities are well-respected and valuable.
Mentoring, believe it or not, is a two-way street—that is, you get as
much from mentoring as your students do. You get to formalize and
solidify your knowledge and experience. You will discover things you
didn’t even know you knew. You will find things you knew but had
forgotten the details of and needed to research to bring yourself back
up to speed.
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You will gain knowledge from your students. They will be thinking
from another frame of reference and bringing experiences and knowledge
to the meetings that are new to you. Likely they will be younger
than you. By being younger, they will have a different view of things. If
you listen, as well as talk, you will learn something.