“Mentorship”.
It’s like a force of nature!
When attentive, wise mentors apply the right amounts of pressure at the right times in the right places needed by a chunk of coal, in time it can become an exquisite, highly valuable diamond.
It helped me many times in my project management career, and it’s why I founded the Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA) with Joe Pusz and Amber Schmidt. My LLC Vets2PM helps military veterans realize Post-Military Prosperity by becoming project managers; we translate their military leadership to project management experience, train them to earn their PMP, ACP, and Scrum Master certifications, and place them into Skillbridge internships and PM careers for life. Vets2PM gets ’em to the PM career front door, and then Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA) helps them continue their professional development journey once inside the career field.
And that’s the difference between mentorship and coaching and training, investing in the long term tomorrow-then profession versus investing in the here-and-now tactical execution of jobs along the way in the career field.
Train and mentor with the two outfits that codified and breached the gap first to create the “Military veterans make great project managers” space; Vets2PM at www.vets2pm.com and Veteran Project Manager Mentor Alliance (VPMMA) at www.thevpmma.org
I am often asked “How do I help my project teams select which planning and delivery method to use for each project Doc?”. And I answer with the six simple questions that take about 10 or 15 minutes to answer. And they are all about “capability”… First,
Clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes identified and named this phenomenon 1978. They defined imposter syndrome as a “condition of feeling anxious and not experiencing success internally, despite being high-performing in external, objective ways [which can] often result [in feelings of] feeling like “a fraud” or “a phony” and
Oxford’s online dictionary defines “capability” as “the power or ability to do something” and “the extent of someone’s ability”. That last part is interesting to me, and represents something a critical mentor to me once explained… “Capability” he said, “is the combination of being able to do something,
