The Cranky Middle Manager Show #55 Peer Mentoring with Steve Trautman
The Cranky Middle Manager Show #055
Welcome everyone. Today we follow up on the show we did with Matt Manuel at Electronic Arts by speaking to someone he recommended, Steve Trautman. Steve’s a former MicroSoftie with a practical approach to bringing new employees on board quickly using Peer Mentoring. Often discussed, seldom done right, peer mentoring should be part of everything we do with our teams……
SPECIAL OFFER- IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE FIRST 5 PEOPLE TO EMAIL mailto:stevetr@peermentoring.com you’ll receive a free copy of his book. This isn’t mentioned in the show because Steve offered if after we edited the show… don’t delay… Darn we’re good to you.
Show Notes
0:00Â Welcome to the show… a little workplace Thorazine. This episode is dedicated to Leonardo Da Vinci. Since we’re talking about mentoring I thought we’d look at someone who was once someone’s apprentice.
2:39 The quote of the week is from Goethe. You can’t know yourself just by thinking about it…you have to actually do your thing day in and day out and it will reveal your character. Lord help us……
3:07 Two commercials this week. One for a TPN show, The Digital Photo Show as well as a plug for my new e-book, “Meet Like You Mean It”… it’s only 8 bucks and you’ve been listening how long for free?
5:00 Welcome Steve Trautman. The fact he’s talking to us the same week his book, “Teach What You Know” comes out is purely coincidental I’m sure. How did he come to his approach on peer mentoring? It all started at MicroSoft.
8:00 How is good peer mentoring different that strapping the new guy to an old guy and letting them go at it?
15:40 This is something individual managers can do. If you wait for the company to get on board you’ll be old and grey…. here’s how to do it.
26:44 This is not just a good practice to get into … it’s a business issue. We talk about how it relates to the upcoming workforce crisis which we talked about back in Show #48 with Bob Morison. We all have to get better at this, fast.
30:00 Check out Teach What you Know as well as the workshops.
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