Mentor/Mentee Relationships

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Mentor/Mentee Relationships

• Rebecca Walter
• Research Analyst

Paul Howlett Joint Managing Director
Wright Corporate Strategy
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Introduction to the Session

• What is mentoring
• The difference between mentoring and coaching
• Two examples of mentor/mentee teams

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Our Mentor Relationship

• Margaux Park
• Resource Recovery Education Officer
• Bankstown City Council
• Fiona Stock
• Manager of Sustainability and Waste Services
• Kogarah City Council

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My role as a Mentee

• BCC Leadership Program
• Qualities I was looking for in a mentor
• What I have learnt from this experience
• Why you should seek a mentor

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My role as a Mentor

• Am I going to have the right answers?
• Time commitment
• What I have learnt from this experience
• Why you should be a mentor

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• Not just a mentor
• colleague
• confidante
• role model
• friend

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Mentee Ylva Engqvist Senior Environmental
Consultant Mentor Ron Wainberg Technical
Director
guidance of an individual towards a technical
outcome in their work, through leveraging the
mentors experience in problem solving and
relevant technical expertise
our mentorrelationship is technical

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My role as a technical mentee

• I learnt on the job
• Did I really understand that?

• How I benefit by being a mentee
• What do you hope to gain from a mentoring
  relationship?

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My role as a technical mentor
Transfer problem solving capability to
accelerate the mentees capacity and help the
mentee deliver on a technical outcome

• Think flexibly and creatively
• Pay attention to detail and do it right the first
  time - a good engineer is a lazy engineer
• What I have learnt from this experience
• Why you should be a mentor

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We also

• get on well personally
• have the same sense of (crass) humour
• have similar personal traits, i.e. feisty /
  direct and meticulous
• like to share the occasional drink

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Discussion on Mentoring

• What are the benefits of mentoring
• For the mentee
• For the mentor
• For the waste industry
• How can mentoring relationships be established?
• Is there a role for WMAA?