Accelerate your growth with mentoring
Take charge of your career!
Think of the most valuable insights you've gained about work and life. Chances are, those gems came to you through some form of mentoring, not from textbooks or classroom lectures. People with the experience, knowledge, skills, or perspective you seek have shared their wisdom with you, maybe even helped you put it to use.
Mentoring is indispensable to learning throughout our careers, not just while we're wet behind the ears. It's how we identify and fill critical gaps we'd struggle to address on our own.
A good mentor is part diagnostician, assessing what's going on with you now, and part guide, connecting you with the advice, ideas, people, and resources you need to grow and move ahead.
That kind of support is essential these days since career paths are anything but simple and straightforward. You now have more options than you know what to do with. And even if you do have a clear sense of direction, you probably face organizational and personal hurdles.
Mentoring is indispensable to learning throughout our careers, not just while we're wet behind the ears. It's how we identify and fill critical gaps we'd struggle to address on our own.
A good mentor is part diagnostician, assessing what's going on with you now, and part guide, connecting you with the advice, ideas, people, and resources you need to grow and move ahead.
That kind of support is essential these days since career paths are anything but simple and straightforward. You now have more options than you know what to do with. And even if you do have a clear sense of direction, you probably face organizational and personal hurdles.
My story
If you are experiencing similar feelings of frustration or even regret about the direction of your career, I'd like to help you examine the question, "Am I reaching my potential?" This is not the same as asking, "How do I rise to the top?" or "How can I be successful in my career?" Rather, it's about taking a very personal look at how you define success in your heart of hearts and then finding your path to get there.
When I started my career as an Agile coach I was overwhelmed by a number of certifications, bodies of knowledge, books and potential areas where I need to get better in the profession: facilitation, professional coaching, all sorts of Agile techniques, scaled Agile frameworks, culture hacks, psychology of team dynamics, technical Agility and so on. I had had a technical background and felt confident that it would not be difficult to embrace a few new tricks. It took me some time to sort this out and determine what I needed to grow towards my objectives. To be brutally honest, I didn't have clear objectives, I just wanted to be better. In the hindsight, I spent too much time on things that were not quite relevant.
I wish I had had a mentor who could guide me so I saved time and accomplished what I wanted efficiently.
If you are experiencing similar feelings of frustration or even regret about the direction of your career, I'd like to help you examine the question, "Am I reaching my potential?" This is not the same as asking, "How do I rise to the top?" or "How can I be successful in my career?" Rather, it's about taking a very personal look at how you define success in your heart of hearts and then finding your path to get there.
I wish I had had a mentor who could guide me so I saved time and accomplished what I wanted efficiently.
If you are experiencing similar feelings of frustration or even regret about the direction of your career, I'd like to help you examine the question, "Am I reaching my potential?" This is not the same as asking, "How do I rise to the top?" or "How can I be successful in my career?" Rather, it's about taking a very personal look at how you define success in your heart of hearts and then finding your path to get there.
Your journey to professional mastery
I've been working with Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Agile coaches, line managers and executives who wanted to grow in Agile.
This growth might manifest in promotion, an interesting turn in a career, recognition from your peers and leadership or simply a sense of fulfilment that you on the right track to maintain professional success.
We start by orienting in your context - where you are now, what's going on and what might look like a height you want to conquer. But the most important - what you really enjoy doing.
Having all these, we meet on a fortnightly or monthly basis and practice The Toyota Kata to get through the obstacles, re-asses the next step and what's required to be done to be bring you there.
This growth might manifest in promotion, an interesting turn in a career, recognition from your peers and leadership or simply a sense of fulfilment that you on the right track to maintain professional success.
We start by orienting in your context - where you are now, what's going on and what might look like a height you want to conquer. But the most important - what you really enjoy doing.
Having all these, we meet on a fortnightly or monthly basis and practice The Toyota Kata to get through the obstacles, re-asses the next step and what's required to be done to be bring you there.
Mapping out career development
Ambitious professionals often spend a substantial amount of time thinking about strategies that will help them achieve greater levels of success. Taking responsibility for your career starts with a reflection on what's the professional mission that will keep you inspired and energised. This sense of purpose can be evaluated through the lens of an uncertain future to identify scenarios you'd like to avoid but also those you want to pursue. The resulting context frames challenges you might face to make progress towards the career objectives.
Growth and advancement
One of my objectives is to help overcome false limits, roadblocks or barrier to progress. In other words, I help someone grow. By 'grow' I mean that through the process of being mentored a person can:
- increase their knowledge, wisdom and awareness
- increase their sense of maturity, i.e. that they appear experienced and emotionally well balanced to others
- enlarge their view of the world or broaden their perspectives in a way that they can draw upon, e.g. 'Here's another way of looking at this.
A bit longer explanation of what the mentoring looks like
What people say
Make the first step towards your career goals!
Let's discuss how mentoring can boost your career and help achieve the goals. It's a free session to help you make a decision whether we'd like to work together.
Get in touch
I'm based in Singapore and I serve my clients all over the world.
Roman Lobus
E-mail: roman.lobus@gmail.com
Languages: English, Ukrainian
E-mail: roman.lobus@gmail.com
Languages: English, Ukrainian
