Once a year at Online Trading Academy we have the opportunity to get together at an annual conference held for the staff and leadership. It is a time to re-energize our professional skills and goals. One of the things I took away from the conference this year was a reminder of the value of mentors and how often they are right in front of us. I have had the pleasure of working with wonderful mentors along my path and in the last couple of decades I have also had the privilege of being a mentor.
A mentor can be the catalyst that helps us take our goals and dreams and launches them to reality.
Let’s define mentor: Dictionary.com defines it as “A wise and trusted counselor or teacher or an influential senior sponsor or supporter.”
Wikipedia’s definition is: “A developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps a less experienced or less knowledgeable person–who can be referred to as a prot?g?, or apprentice — to develop in a specified capacity.”
My definition of a mentor would be “someone who has the ability to help… Continue Reading
