Mentoring According to David, by David Bilongo

Mentoring according to David

The day begins by the fact that I was late, actually we had an optional event very early at 7:30 AM. We came to a big room and the thing interesting was the fact that there were many women and the most of them doing well in their business. The other thing very interesting and funny was the process for meeting that women. It was a kind of speed dating and we just have 7 minutes to talk with the person and to begin to network. Thus I can talk to Adela Cepeda because I like finance and she is a finance specialist since 1980.She is the president of A.C Advisory which is a full service, independent minority and women owned financial advisory firm that provides superior services to government. During this interview, instead of to talk about her. She preferred to listen to me that corresponds to one of the principle of the article when you meet with a mentor, you should lead the discussion. In this way I could be reassure by her on the fact that I want to work in this area, that only possible with work a lot, like what you do and she gave me her good feelings on being the mentor of someone.

 After few steps, we had the chance to way up in the John Hancock building where we had an access to a tremendous view of Chicago. And it`s only like this you can realize that Chicago it`s a big city with many activities. We met the associate Sales Manager Christopher Rondeau, he has to be the liaison between different areas: hotel, restaurant, and bar. Through this testimony ,we learnt new projects of the company with a building in Philadelphia but especially how he manage to network first internally with several advices: be early on time ,be loyal, be respectful, be prepared. Secondly externally, which is linked to volunteering, in fact the company used to belong to business association for instance the Green tie, according to Christopher it`s the Karma.

Before to go to lunch, we went to the tour of Google with a pleasure and we were not disappointed by the offices rather impressive to be in one of the biggest company of the world. We had an appointment with Matt and Megan Danielson who takes care of the marketing and the advertising .Thus we learnt more about the spirit, the soul of google and the future projects of the company with notably Google now. 

But especially more about our concepts with the networking internally, actually the company used to promote some programs with the Global rotation program which allows to employee to work in other offices of the company around the world; we have also the Intramural/team event which allow to federate employees. Megan added more about the mentorship with some leadership coaching provide by the company, that mentorship is very important and necessary in Google in order to understand the company. As for as the volunteering, it`s a value which belongs to Google` s culture, they want that their employees do something which can raise the value of the company.

In eating we met another guest speaker Gigi, she is in charge of greeting French here in Chicago and additionally a French teacher. She told to us her background very interesting and she gave us advices if we want to do an internship here that we had to put our characteristics toward and to ask ourselves: How we can inspired and what is your added value? For the volunteering she made the difference with the French system and she emphasized on the fact that in this country it`s necessary and beneficial because you can be a mentor.