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Cannon Design’s St. Louis office kicked off Mentoring In May with a “Sync-o de Mentor” lunch on May 4. The office used the Cinco de Mayo observation to celebrate and rally around our own common cause – professional development. In preparation for our event, we gathered updated information from potential St. Louis protégés and mentors so we could present our findings to the office and talk about how they could benefit from mentoring.

Our presentation graphics highlighted the skills and knowledge that potential protégés in the office have identified as areas of interest and just how those needs sync up with our identified mentors. The data we collected showed quite a few departmental, project and skill needs matched up, but we also discovered there are several key areas where we are lacking in mentors.

The Mentoring Liaisons will be following up with our protégés and mentors and concentrating on coordinating cross-generational mentoring groups. These will be small groups of people from various stages in their careers. The interactions within the group should reveal how any of the participants can perform as both mentor and protégé. We hope that additional one-on-one relationships will grow from there. The celebration was topped off with a tasty buffet from Qdoba.

Joan Chadwick - 15 May 2012

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