Move Forward With Others

My boss told me the other day that as a team member, hopefully you move forward and move others forward with you. We were talking about mentorship and how to bring others up. How does that work, and what does it look like? You can either be a more senior person and just do all the work faster and better than the juniors, or you can help teach them to improve and someday become a senior person as well. We were talking about those kinds of people who know how and just do it without giving others the room to grow. Sometimes you have to take a step back from your job, look at the big picture, and be willing to let someone more junior than you try something you know you can do better. You need to let them “fail forward” (as the book of the same title says). Be willing to watch them make mistakes and help pick them up and brush them off to try again. Trust me, as a mentor you will be more rewarded helping someone else do something than doing it yourself. Also your boss will notice you being a mentor and will also help raise you up as well.