57 GET A MENTOR

Having a mentor can be advantageous for your project management career. Mentors offer their skills, experience and, critically, their networks to their protégés or mentees. You can use a mentor to test ideas in a safe environment, ask for advice or just sound off about a particular problem.

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MAKING MENTORING WORK

For the first edition of this book, Marina Sampson (now Tumblety) gave her view on having a mentor. When she moved into project management from running a successful customer service team, Marina found an experienced project manager who she felt would be a good mentor. Her mentor at the time worked with her to help her ...

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