Mentors
I truly believe in having a mentor in ones life and professional career. To be honest, I have not had a true mentor in my professional career, but not as an individual in my professional environment that I can call a mentor. The closest persons, that I can my mentors is my brother and father. These two people have been the influences in my life, that I strive to be like. My father showed me everyday through his actions how to be a professional. He got up every morning and went to work. Dressed in a suit and tie, never complaining.. Most days, he was short on sleep, because he was on call every other night and weekends as an OBGYN in a small town. My brother is an amazing family man, that works incredibly hard to support his family, but is also an extremely successful business man. I truly look up to these two individuals in my life. They are my mentors!!! They have shown me what professionalism is and the standards required to achieve it.
I work with many individuals that do not have the mentors that I was extremely fortunate to have in my life, these individuals need mentors to show them how to be successful. I see this as my role in their lives. I often preach to my work study supervisors when I train them that we must not only be mentors but also examples to our students. I truly believe that the first job of a mentor is to be a good example of what to do... Not to provide an example of what not to do.... We must show our mentees how to do this!
For myself, I’m a visual learner, I need to be able to visualize to completely understand the concept. As a flight instructor I have also found this to be true, because of this I try to live and breathe professionalism to teach my students how to be a professional by my example.
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