Description
Mentorship => Coaching
Mentoring Defined
A development-focused relationship with a domain relevant mentor who passes on their skills and experience to a mentee.
Coaching Defined
A development-focused relationship with an often-times formally defined coach who provides guidance to a teammate on their goals and helps them reach their full potential.
Milestone 1
(adds 1 mile to your journey)
Should Have:
- Shows a good degree of emotional and professional maturity
- Demonstrated ability to learn from mistakes
- Curiosity to understand how things work and motivation to learn new things
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Ask questions to learn about our stack, our product, and our users | Learn from mistakes |
| Provide guidance to less experienced engineers |
Milestone 2
(adds 3 miles to your journey)
Should Have:
- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality guidance to other engineers
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Be a mentor for other engineers | Model high standards and hold other engineers accountable to high standards |
Milestone 3
(adds 6 miles to your journey)
Should Have:
- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality guidance to senior engineers
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Coach engineers to advance their skills and develop healthy habits | Set clear expectations for engineers and hold them accountable to those expectations |
| Onboard new engineering hires and onboard engineers to the team during team changes | Develop career plans with engineers on their team support their growth |
| Act as a mentor for senior engineers who are developing their own mentees |
Milestone 4
(adds 12 miles to your journey)
Should Have:
- Demonstrated ability to provide high quality guidance to management peers and senior engineers
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Coach managers to advance their skills and develop healthy habits | Set clear expectations for managers and hold them accountable to those expectations |
| Develop career plans with managers on their team support their growth | Onboard new management hires and onboard engineers to the team during team changes |
Milestone 5
(adds 20 miles to your journey)
Should Have:
- Demonstrated ability to develop leaders, experience:
- Managing managers and a larger number of teams in aggregate
* Leading engineering retention in a growth environment
| Is Expected To: | |
|---|---|
| Coach directors to advance their skills and develop healthy habits | Set clear expectations for directors and hold them accountable to those expectations |
| Develop career plans with directors on their team support their growth | Onboard new leadership hires |
Configuration Health
- ✅ Associated with 2 roles
- ⚠️ 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
- Code Reviewersmust be milestone 1+
- Tech Leadsmust be milestone 2+
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