When were you a protégé?

[JayneWonders]

I'm sure many of you have been coached.

A protégé, per Miriam-Webster online, is one who is protected or trained or whose career is furthered by a person of experience, prominence, or influence

Have you been a protégé?

What was the highlight?
How long did it last?

 

[JayneWonders]

My next speech at Toastmaster's is on the protegee relationship with their mentor.

I'm pondering times when I have been one.

I feel that a particular manager acted as a mentor, taking me under her wing, and going from an individual contributor to a leader.

Then, there was a fellow who for a while mentored me in going from a leader to a consultant.

 

[Luce NDs]

I've always been one by self decree. Most of my mentors have been so by behaving badly and making and example of themselves on how naught to do somethings ... is that scholarly instead of teacher lye ...

There are exceptions, but not many given the urge to be concrete and stoned ... mostly by powers of corruption! Therein a lot of wild stories that the mentors wouldn't believe ... they went berserk and into a mees-like engendered state ... mores on that later!

 

[jimkenney12]

My supervising ministers were mentors when I was a student, especially Dave Edwards.

 

[Jaebius]

When I first started being a pastor here in Korea, about three years ago, I was a protege to my supervising pastor. She taught me how things are done at our church and helped me transition from being a Baptist to being a Presbyterian

 

[Luce NDs]

Pres byte is sort of an initial nibble at the item .. called humanitarianism ... many do not get it!

 

[JayneWonders]

My supervising ministers were mentors when I was a student, especially Dave Edwards.

Can you tell me a bit about that, @jimkenney12

What made Dave exceptional.

 

[jimkenney12]

He was supportive and a model for leadership. It was the summer of 1988. He was a commissioner to General Council and had access to a lot of material and information about other stuff. He found a copy of a report prepared by a consultant for General Council Executive about its functioning. It was a damning report which the Executive buried. It informed me about the culture of GCE which helped me understand its functioning and the functioning has not changed a lot since. It was one of several good conversations we had. He was very quiet and low key

 

[Luce NDs]

He was supportive and a model for leadership. It was the summer of 1988. He was a commissioner to General Council and had access to a lot of material and information about other stuff. He found a copy of a report prepared by a consultant for General Council Executive about its functioning. It was a damning report which the Executive buried. It informed me about the culture of GCE which helped me understand its functioning and the functioning has not changed a lot since. It was one of several good conversations we had. He was very quiet and low key

Visions like this often remain unseen because of some urges toward darkening mysteries and sacred-isms ... these may come with nightfall and be haunting as they drift around in the shadow ... those of powerful piety will deny such things as immaterial!

This may be unwrapped several ways ...

 

[paradox3]

We had preceptors in our clinical placements as OT students.

 

[Carolla]

I once was introduced to a group by a minister who called me 'her protege' - which puzzled me, as she barely spoke to me! And distressed me too, as she & I differed significantly on almost everything.

I have had people in both my personal and professional life who I would consider to be mentors. They both supported and challenged me. Some made helpful career introductions, coached me through some tricky situations - always with my best interest in mind, encouraged me to apply for positions I may not otherwise have pursued. In my personal life, my mentors helped me take a wide variety of important next steps, celebrated joys and sorrows with me too. One of these people died yesterday, and I can barely imagine a world without her.

 

[Mendalla]

One of these people died yesterday, and I can barely imagine a world without her.

My old high school librarian, who gets a lot of the credit for me being a librarian in my first career, is the only one of my old teachers whose visitation or funeral I have gone to. Definitely a mentor.

My current boss, while he's not a traditional mentor sort (very quiet, reserved most of the time, though he could probably do standup based on some of his performances as an emcee at company events), definitely has been a mentor and still is. I had the technical skills and ability to learn, but he's helped me fill in the more important management piece. So certainly his protege to a degree. Weirdly, he is actually younger than me, just has more experience in the corporate world and management.

 

[Waterfall]

In my personal life, my mentors helped me take a wide variety of important next steps, celebrated joys and sorrows with me too. One of these people died yesterday, and I can barely imagine a world without her.

Oh Carolla I can hear your pain and love for your friend through those words. Please accept my deepest condolences.

 

[Luce NDs]

The number of people dying and leaving holes in the thought scheme is atrocious ... almost like conspiracy of something departing ... and there it "was"!

If you say it just right it is more sensible ...

 

[BetteTheRed]

Our minister emeritus, who served our congregation for a faithful 35 years, was a mentor to me, especially in the first years after I joined Grace. He carefully found me some authors that would suit a thoughtful atheist, particularly CS Lewis (A Grief Observed remains one of my most treasured books to re-read) and Anne Lamott. He was leading our bible study yesterday (a fascinating group led by a rotation of retired ministers and our rev and a licensed lay worship leader), and I was saddened to see how very elderly he looks.