There was a folded piece of paper on your desk when you cam

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Biomedical Sciences Orientation
Integrity Service Excellence
Mentorship
Col Jeff Bryant Commander, 42 Med Group SAFMLS 07
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The Question

• There was a folded piece of paper on your desk
  when you came in today
• Open the paper and record your answers to the two
  questions
• Fold the paper again without sharing answers with
  your neighbors
• Pass the paper up to the front
• Thanks

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Mentorship Origin

• men-tor (men-tor, -ter) noun
• menmeaning /to think tormale suffix
• Greek Mythology. Odysseuss trusted counselor,
  under whose disguise Athena became the guardian
  and teacher of Telemachus in the search for his
  father who did not return from the Trojan War
• Largely ineffective until Goddess Athena started
  guiding Telemachus disguised as Mentor

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Mentorship Origin

• FenelonsLes Adventures de Telemaque
• Mentor character had the qualities, abilities,
  and attributes we now associate with and
  incorporate into the action of modern day
  mentoring
• Trusted counselor, advisor, teacher, guide
• Prevailing position in corporate America today
• Many can do it and
• Some are good at it, but
• It is the rare leader that masters the mentorship
  role and the rare protégé that seizes the full
  opportunity

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Mentorship Prerequisites

• Influence
• Its all about influence
• Relationships
• Structured
• Personal
• Potential
• When I grow up
• Bell shaped curve
• Frustrations and honoring personal decisions

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Workplace Demographics
Individual Professional Development
Damage Control All-Stars
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Workplace Demographics

• Professional Individual Development
• Workforce Management
• A positions and A personnel
• Transitions

Organizational Development
Damage Control All-Stars
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Mentorship Prerequisites

• Influence
• Its all about influence
• Relationships
• Structured
• Personal
• Potential
• When I grow up
• Bell shaped curve
• Frustrations and honoring personal decisions

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Mentorship Prerequisites

• Attraction
• Balanced package/balanced presentation
• Physical bearing, compatible personality,
  teachable spirit, socially adept, and the Spark
• For the protégéadmire, respect, and trust
• Access
• Usually begins structured and in the workplace
• Takes dedicated time/effort
• Action
• Be prepared when meeting with mentor/protégé
• How much should you prepare?

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Mentorship Demographics

• Typically 15-20 year age difference
• Females prefer male mentors and do not form
  mentoring relationships as readily as males do
• Males prefer male mentors as well but not with as
  strongly as females do
• Multiple mentor relationships over the course of
  a career or lifetime

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Mentorship

• Complete development program (two forms)
• Formal/Institutional focused on career, job, the
  process, results
• Informal/Individual focused on individual
  professional development
• Goal is to develop personnel to their absolute
  fullest potential
• Potential is different for every individual
• Everybodys end game is different

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Mentorship

• Formal/Institutional Program
• Officer career development (formal)
• Initial mentoring behavior
• Institutional in nature
• Usually conducted within a chain of command
• Bridge to next mentoring level
• Goal is to expose, instruct, guide, explain,
  correct, assist, coach, etc.

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Institutional Mentorship

• Formal or Institutional Mentoring
• The immediate supervisor or rater is designated
  as the primary mentor (coach, guide, role model,
  etc) for each of his or her subordinates. (AFI
  36-3401)
• Our first level mentor is the MTF BSC Executive
  (BSC Corps Chief)
• Not all supervisors or raters are capable of
  being good institutional mentors
• Pick your own mentors
• and allow them to pick you

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Mentorship

• A bridge is sometimes formed leading to
• Officer professional development (informal)
• Instill confidence
• Create and sustain situational awareness
• Written/verbal, interactions
• Manage risk
• Properly challenging authority

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OPERATION FOCUS RELIEF

• Medical Mission
• Rotary Wing Movement (SOF Intent was CASEVAC)
• Surgical stabilization/holding for up to 5
  patients for 24 hours
• Class VIII A/B with resupply
• 15 unit blood inventory
• Veterinary and Prev Medicine
• Fixed wing strategic evacuation to central region

460 KMs
FOB - Abuja
151 KMs
FOB
362 KMs
317 KMs
TRAINING SITES Active Training Site
Possible training Site
UNCLASSIFIED
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Mentorship

• Polish and expect to be polished
• In briefings, written and oral correspondence
• In interaction with senior leaders/subordinates
• Not counseling, discipline, or punitive
• Goal is to get attention
• Goal is to immerse, educate, lead, develop,
  counsel

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Command PerspectiveDiscipline

• Meet member at the point of their need first
• Perspective It is not your fault someone is
  sitting in your officeput it back on the member
• Preemptive strike when possible puts member on
  notice what to expect next
• Help me keep you in the Air Force
• Follow through
• Counseling someone who is a friend of yours is
  tough

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Command PerspectiveCounseling a Friend

• Do it in private
• It is the opinion of somethere are those that
  say
• Objective statement of the mission or facts
• Offer a way outeven if it is rhetorical
• Restate mission requirements
• Tear them down until they realize the
  mistakethen
• Build them back up again until they feel value
  added
• Learn from this mistake and be better for it
• Look for sign of respect at the end

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Personal Mentorship

• Informal/Personal
• Immerse
• Educate
• Lead
• Counsel
• Develop
• Mentor

• Formal/Institutional
• Expose
• Instruct
• Guide
• Correct
• Assist
• Coach

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Personal Mentorship

• Dynamic, long, time consuming process
• Deliberately more one-way communication but
  two-way learning opportunities
• Kram, Mentoring at Work Developmental
  Relationships in Organizational Life
• Initiation 6-12 months (worthiness)
• Cultivation 2-5 years (relationship peaks)
• Separation 6-24 months (PCS/Retirement)
• Redefinition Indefinite (Full potential)

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Mentorship is a

• Brain to pick
• Shoulder to cry on
• Pat on the back
• Kick in the pants
• Ticket into some games
• Dual personally rewarding experience

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Expeditionary Medics