How to be mentor and how to be mentee

“The best way a mentor can prepare another leader is to expose him or her to other great people.”—John C. Maxwell

What's this about : 

Mentors can open the door, not just give advice. There is huge responsibility bestowed upon them. It it not just to guide or help someone, a successful mentor should help other mentees to become mentors. They should be able to listen well, guide mentees through various problems and help them to focus on action.

Mentee also have their responsibility as they are being mentored. How they should approach mentor for work done by them, for doubts, clarification etc. We will be discussing that from Drupal and general life perspective. We’ll cover:

• Discussion about relationship between mentor and mentee

• Expectations of mentors and mentees from each other

• Discussion from Drupal perspective

• Role of Drupal community events in mentoring new users.

• Mentoring on Drupal and Drupal Ecosystem

• Statistics and analysis from mentored code sprints

How to be mentor and how to treat mentees by being human and in turn there are lots of responsibilities from mentee to give reasonable outcome that satisfies mentors expectation.

We’ll also be sharing statistics from Drupal.org, showing how mentorship increases number of core contributions and others in the Drupal ecosystem.

Purpose of Mentors:

Mentors perform a huge role in any activity or task. As we see from Open source and Drupal perspective mentors have provided their useful time to prepare various other talents and active contributors. Mentors provide lots of time to nurture beginner and novice users to get into their interests. As John C. Maxwell has said, mentors should always nurture mentees so that they become another great mentor.

You will walk away with:

It will help you get some more insight about how to mentor novice community members, for novice uses it will help and guide about how to get help and information from mentors.