Mentoring, A Great Tradition
While we are near to ending our winter season and I look forward with
enthusiasm toward our 2010 working season, however, first I want to
finish my tribute to my forebears with a special word about Mentoring.
There were many mentors, all through my lifetime that helped shape my
life and work. I have made it a special part of my daily adventure to
do my best to carry on the tradition.
Being a mentor takes a mutual trust and kinship relationship in that
both parties must be interested and attuned to the subject matter being
exchanged. One must have knowledge; the other must want to learn.
Without a keen desire by both parties, little happens.
Mentoring can be at any age. We quickly think of a coach and a young
aspiring athlete, yet it may be a young boy teaching his grandfather
how to use a cell phone or e-mail.
Mentoring can be between relatives, teachers, friends, employees,
policemen and even politicians. In short, there are no boundaries to
its scope. Additionally are no boundaries between race, faith, color,
geographic location or gender.
Mentoring can be about nearly any subject, personal skill set or
working trade. What is most important though, we all need to get
involved with our own personal effort toward mentoring. It is important
to help and support those who need to learn about many things in life.
Once involved, each party then gains a big helping of respect for
others and a great deal of self respect along with a proud feeling of
personal accomplishment.
Enough, spring is near and my next blog will be about product and
profits.
Brads Blog, “The Finer Cut”, is another of
many
planned. Each issue will cover a topic of interest about our machines,
our industry, our customers and more. I look forward to this task and
am excited about the opportunity to broaden our communications with our
customers and industry. I invite you to return and visit from time to
time, cruising back through issues to see what I may have been thinking
of at another time.
I also invite you, our reader to contribute by offering your comments.
Please send your thoughts to Brad@orbitscreens.com
, by letter or fax, 563-922 9060.
Happy screening
Brad Schnittjer
Blog # 10-4
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