Description
Provides support to colleagues, spreads knowledge, and develops the team outside formal reporting structures
While Career Development is about formal planning, mentorship is equally important. We want to continue our culture of learning and teaching, and incentivise engineers to help develop each other, whether through internal posts, support groups, team presentations, programming curricula, or some other medium.
Milestone 1
(adds 1 mile to your journey)
Informally mentors individuals in an ad-hoc way, supports new hires, and conveys institutional knowledge
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Makes themself available for informal support and advice | Acted as an onboarding buddy |
| Acts as sounding board for peers and more junior members | Paired with an engineer to help them with an unfamiliar area |
| Provides sound advice when asked | Helped a colleague understand their feelings |
Milestone 2
(adds 3 miles to your journey)
Mentors people proactively, and guides people to realizations rather than providing the answer
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Takes time to explain concepts and best practices | Shared interesting article with a team member to help with their growth |
| Asks questions to illuminate concepts, rather than stating them | Offered unprompted feedback to help growth, with empathy |
| Allows others to lead efforts when it will help their development | Lead from behind to support someone new to a leadership role |
Milestone 3
(adds 6 miles to your journey)
Teaches small groups of engineers and contributes to Medium's shared knowledge base
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Avoids siloing information when it can be usefully shared with others | Gave a brown bag presentation on payments |
| Works to increase the bus factor of systems | Wrote Hatch post on avoiding RDS backfill issues |
| Finds tools that work best for a team member's personality | Wrote Medium-U content module |
Milestone 4
(adds 12 miles to your journey)
Encourages people to mentor each other, and creates ways for them to do so
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Defines an entire curriculum for a discipline | Created and lead Medium's Women in Eng group |
| Draws positive attention to well-modeled mentor and teaching behaviours | Organized an Eng All Hands with an outside speaker |
| Creates brown bag series and lines up speakers | Designed and taught web client guild curriculum |
Milestone 5
(adds 20 miles to your journey)
Instills and promotes a culture of learning and development within the entire engineering team
| Examples | |
|---|---|
| Sets incentive structures to recognise and reward mentorship | Instituted the professional education budget for engineers |
| Empowers team members to develop themselves | Mentored mentors |
| Role models productive and healthy mentor relationships | Started the eng advisor program and lined up external mentors |
Configuration Health
- ✅ Associated with 1 role
- ⚠️ Has been referenced in no observations
- ℹ️ No one has achieved a milestone on this ability
- ⛔️ Last updated: almost 5 years ago
- ℹ️ Never conversed about
Role & Position Requirements
- Strengthenersare recommended to be milestone 1+
Examples / Observations
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