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The Definition of Completed
By nature, software developers set out to please their management by completing their tasks as fast as possible. This is admirable and ultimately what management desires. However, software developers interpretation of "complete" falls short of what their management expects...
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Crash N Burn
As Edison once said about his invention of the light bulb, “I have not failed......
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Candidates Come First
In rare instances we have found ourselves in the position where we can nudge a candidate in one direction over another...
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Technology
Technology is everywhere and fast moving, we must mentor our candidates to keep up with and embrace technology...
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Effective and Efficient
Mentors must teach candidates tips and tricks that improve productivity and build a more effective and efficient candidate...
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Challenge Candidates
During the mentorship process...
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Road-Blocks
Road-blocks also known as excuses are the easy way out. This behavior...
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Problems are Opportunities
Mentors must change the way candidates perceive problems. Problems are opportunities...
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Mentoring the Unknown
It is ok to mentor candidates on problems you do not necessarily know how to solve. Yes this can be scary but we...
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When to Become a Mentor
The Cultivation process encourages candidates to become mentors during the influencing phase. However...
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Managing Expectations
If it was easy everyone would be doing it. Mentors must constantly balance encouraging and inspiring...
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Positivity is contagious spread it...
As a mentor, candidates feed off of our positive attitude! Mentors must...
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Repetition: Want your mentee to remember what you teach them?
Repetition is required to implant new skills. These new skills often seem difficult the first time and then become second nature...
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Improve your mentorship through the build, bend and mold process
Lets dig into the "build, bend and mold" process in more detail. Initially most candidates do not even know how to approach their tasks. By teaching candidates simple things like what search terms to use when beginning to research the task at hand, we can start them off at gathering the information required in their journey to a solution. Once they have this information...
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What most mentors miss
Mentorship is not easy, but it is infinitely rewarding. First, let us examine the overall objective when mentoring candidates. The ideal outcome we are seeking for each of the candidates is a long prosperous and successful life both personally and professionally. Why personally and professionally...
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Are you a treasure hunter? Here is how we find hidden all-star employees
Junior professionals such as interns, CO OPs, and new hires are hidden treasures often overlooked, underutilized, and improperly engaged. These junior professionals provide an incredible opportunity to establish an environment of Cultivation that places candidates and the company on a successful path...
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Software Development Presented at UMBC
Want to hear what it takes in the IT industry from an expert? Want to set your sights on the next level for your career in Software Development and Collaborative tools? Brian Walsh will be sharing his journey through the IT industry and how he went from a Junior Software Developer to becoming the CTO of a technology company on April 5th from noon to 1pm ITE 457 at UMBC....
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Self-Selection: How would you like to Cultivate your own All-Stars?
Self-selection is a strategic approach that places the success criteria one-hundred percent within the control of the participants. Typically, self-selection occurs by structuring opportunities where candidates can choose to participate by investing their own time. These opportunities work best when they are designed to simultaneously improve the organization and participant. Throughout the self-selection process, the opportunities should increase in difficulty while challenging the candidates to demonstrate ...
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Inspiring Unique Partnerships
For over a decade, the organization now known as Exerceo (Latin for train, practice, cultivate) has helped develop the skills and experience of hundreds of people looking to take advantage of the growing field of information technologies, specifically, software development and systems administration. The benefit has been an increase in hirable junior IT professionals for the local IT community and Exerceo IT Program sponsors. Exerceo’s success, and more importantly, its participants’ success is ...
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What all businesses want
The primary struggle businesses report with junior to mid level candidates is there lack of independent problem solving capabilities. Our challenge to the education system is to help the business community broadly reprogram students from one-and-done to completion based problem solvers. In the business world we want employees that work tasks to completion. In the education world this task completion equates to a 100% on an assignment...
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Engaging Exerceo – Public and Private Grantors
For over a decade, the organization now known as Exerceo (Latin for train, practice, cultivate) has helped develop the skills and experience of hundreds of people looking to take advantage of the growing field of information technologies, specifically, software development and systems administration. The benefit has been an increase in hirable junior IT professionals for the local IT community and Exerceo IT Program sponsors. Exerceo's success, and more importantly, its participants' success is directly related to creating a professionally nurturing environment conducive to learning well beyond academic curriculum of learning institutions and traditional training programs. Participants are developed into team members, mentors and engaged members of the organization – in other words, better employees – while acquiring the skills and knowledge they need to be an immediate contributors...
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Officially Open for Business!
Rooted in over a decade of effort by co-founder Brian Walsh to train, mentor and inspire others of all ages to enter and excel in the field of information technology, Exerceo now assumes the leadership of his original mission. In addition, the organization assumes responsibility to continually evolve, refine and promote the concepts of Cultivation...
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Cultivation
Cultivation is a discipline for identifying and mentoring tomorrow's superstars by immersing them in a positive, collaborative, and empowering environment that encourages learning and career development.
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