Mentorship, Coaching, and Sponsorship - A Powerful Framework for Building Resilient Teams
Lara Hogan, via Pluralsight
Open the docsAnalytics leadership: influence, mentoring and team craft · Expert · Lesson 87 of 99 · about 3 hours
Mentoring, coaching and sponsoring analysts
After this you can distinguish mentoring, coaching and sponsoring, choose the right one for a situation, and run a mentoring relationship with clear goals.
Why it matters
Mentoring is sharing your experience, coaching is helping someone find their own answer with questions, and sponsoring is using your influence to create opportunities for them. Senior analysts usually over-mentor and under-sponsor; the highest-leverage thing you can do for a junior analyst is often to put their work in front of the right people. No free video covers this well for data teams, so this topic uses Lara Hogan's written framework.
How to use this resource
An excerpt from Lara Hogan's book 'Resilient Management' explaining when to mentor, coach or sponsor. Written for engineering managers; it applies directly to analytics.