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Mentoring 101

Quick Version

Ell Marquez 

Community Architect

  • Technology Evangelist
  • Training Architect
    • Docker Quickstart
    • Essential Container Concepts
  • OpenStack Mentorship Co-lead
  • OpenStack Trainer
  • Linux System Administrator

Ell Marquez 

Professional Noob

  • Learn new things
  • Break them
    • Freak out
    • Read all the docs
    • Ask for help
  • Break them again
  • Write a talk about it

The Mentor

 

“Mentors help fill your knowledge gaps and seek opportunities to help you grow and excel. A mentor is someone with whom you can let down your guard, share your insecurities, and ask the ‘stupid’ questions we all have sometimes.”

Agenda

 

  • How do you get a mentor?
    • Change your perception.
      • Relationship

A Reason,

 A Season,

A Lifetime

How do I get a Mentor?

  • Change your perception.
    • Relationship
  • Have a reason.
    • Your dream can't be your reason.

Smart Goals

Smart Goals

  • Specific (simple, sensible, significant)
  • Measurable (meaningful, motivating)
  • Achievable (agreed, actionable)
  • Realistic (reasonable, relevent and resourced, results-based)
  • Time-bound (time-based, time limited, time/cost limited, timely, time-sensitive)

How do I get a Mentor?

  • Change your perception.
  • Have a reason.
  • Tell EVERYONE
  • Stop looking for a mentor.
    • Start looking for a teacher.
      • Ask questions.
        • Ask more questions.
        • Ask the same question more than once.

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

  • Innotech
  • LinuxFest Northwest
  • Dockercon
  • Kubecon

April 1

  • Bsides Austin
  • Infosec Southwest

April 1

April 1- May 30

 May 3- July 5

Lifetime

The best gift you could have given her is a life time of adventures.

A Lifetime

A Lifetime

The best gift you could have given her is a life time of adventures.

Mentorship

The best gift you could have given her is a life time of adventures.

  • August 2014 RHCSA

June 2014 Linux For Ladies

  • January 2015  RHCE
  • 2016 OpenStack Trainer (COA)
  • October 2014 Rackspace
  • 2018 Technical Evangelist Linux Academy
  • 2019 Community Architect + Jupiter Broadcasting 
  • 2017 OpenStack Mentorship Lead

Questions?

@ell_o_punk

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