Mentorship can help you to be proactive and make a big difference to your career trajectory
Sinéad Brady is a career psychologist and the author of Total Reset: Quit Living to Work and Start Working to LiveOnly a few lucky people don’t have a workplace horror story. For the rest of us, it’s usually a tale of a toxic office, a micromanaging boss or a badly run business that gobbles up our free time.
Seán never said the word “mentor” but he was known for taking on younger journalists and providing support and training. We gained a lot from it, and so did Seán; we like to think we helped keep his own skills sharp – not that he needed it – and gave him a sense of the challenges, opportunities and needs of his younger colleagues. I got so much from this mentorship that I resolved to mentor younger journalists myself.
“If you are asking this question, follow through on the answer; don’t ask the question and not do it.” “Depending on the company, there are a few routes,” she says. “It can be part of your performance review with a manager, where you might ask for guidance and leadership and they can perhaps recommend someone outside your department.
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