Mentor Teleconference - October 30, 2018 | 5pm CT

Mentor Teleconference - October 30, 2018 | 5pm CT

Tue, Oct 30, 2018
5:00pm to 6:30pm CT

Description

On Tuesday, October 30 at 5 pm CT (3 pm PT, 4 pm MT, 6 pm ET, 9am Oct 31 NZT), we will hold our next Mentor & Moderator Teleconference.

Signup for the meeting and you will receive an email reminder a day and an hour before the event.

How to join the meeting

  1. Call 1 866-365-4406
  2. Enter the Access Code: 2931995 follow by #.
  3. Click here to join the meeting at the appointed hour and see the shared screen.
  4. Enter your first name.
  5. Click submit.

Proposed Agenda - suggestions welcome

1. Roll Call and Meet the new Mentors - 40 minutes
  • Share a fun fact about you
  • What nugget of wisdom would you like to share with the new mentors?
2. Mentor Meetup October 2019 - 15 minutes
3. New stuff and ideas: Show and tell - 20 minutes
  • What's new on Connect? What's coming?
4. Ideas and Inspirations - 10 minutes
  • Open discussion
  • Share your new and noteworthy
  • What do you want or need to help you in your role as a Mentor?
 I encourage you to start the conversation here to help us focus our discussion during the teleconference. The main purpose of this meeting is to get to know the new mentors and make them feel welcome and part of the group.
Let's get started now. Share your fun facts and nuggets of wisdom in the comments.

Location

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@kdubois

Wanted to let everyone know that I won't be able to attend and will be reducing my role here on Connect. Having become healthy enough to return to work full-time for the first time seven years -- all thanks to Mayo Clinic -- I now lack the bandwidth to be able to juggle so many activities. I love my new job as the first technical writer ever hired in the history of HP Hood LLC's 140+ year history, and I am now also Assistant Team Leader / Co-Advisor of my daughter's robotics team (Greater Rochester Robotics FIRST Robotics Competition Team 340), which is an activity true to my heart that helps hundreds of kids each year. Please keep me posted about your ongoings and activities, and reach out to me every once in while. Love to you all... Kelly

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Such great news for you, @kdubois. Sad for us in the mentor group, but we're delighted that the reason you cannot dedicate time to the Connect community is because of improved health. That is a huge win for all, especially you and your family. I hope your employer knows what a truly passionate, articulate and dedicated person they have hired. We will certainly keep you updated to the big milestones on Mayo Clinic Connect. In fact, here's one:

WE REACHED 70,000 MEMBERS TODAY. That was our target for the end of 2018. We're 2 months ahead of ourselves and growing.

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@colleenyoung

@retiredteacher, indeed this teleconference includes you.

In fact, this particular meeting is to celebrate our recent inductees to the mentor group @contentandwell @debbraw @mamacita @retiredteacher. While she's been a mentor for a while, it will be the first teleconference where @alpaca will be able to join us from New Zealand.

During the meeting we'll get to know one another and get updates about our fellow mentors currently on leave as well as describe the new "alumni mentor" designation.

Mentors on leave:
– intend (health willing) to return to mentor on Connect
– still have access to the Mentor group
– are welcome to participate in mentor activities
– remain a member of Connect; reading, liking and posting as able

Currently, @gman007 @jimhd @sandytoes14 are taking some time on leave until they are able to resume being active as mentors.

Alumni Mentor allows past mentors to participate as members on Connect and at the same time acknowledges the service they provided as a mentor in the past.
Alumni Mentors:
– no longer intend to return to mentor officially on Connect
– still have access to the Mentor group
– are no longer obliged to take part in the mentor activities
– remain a member of Connect

And I will update everyone on the recent alumni status of @cynaburst and @kdubois

See the full agenda at the top of this discussion thread.

Let's continue the get-to-know @hopeful33250 @predictable @gailb @windwalker @travelgirl @dawn_giacabazi @IndianaScott @alpaca
- Share a fun fact about you
- What nugget of wisdom would you like to share with the new mentors?

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OK...in response to @colleenyoung asking for "get to know" tidbits:

Fun fact is what I like to do for fun:
I'm a stained glass artist and even when I scrape up my fingers and bleed on my artwork, I love it.

Nuggets of wisdom:
There are only three prayers: Help! Thank You! and Wow! (Novelist Anne Lamott)
Believe me when I say that I have often needed to get my prayer up quickly and said one of those three w/o any elaboration.

I'm going to sneak in a 2nd from Rilke: Just keep going. No feeling is ever final.
Both of these nuggets have kept me going at various times in my life!

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@kdubois

Wanted to let everyone know that I won't be able to attend and will be reducing my role here on Connect. Having become healthy enough to return to work full-time for the first time seven years -- all thanks to Mayo Clinic -- I now lack the bandwidth to be able to juggle so many activities. I love my new job as the first technical writer ever hired in the history of HP Hood LLC's 140+ year history, and I am now also Assistant Team Leader / Co-Advisor of my daughter's robotics team (Greater Rochester Robotics FIRST Robotics Competition Team 340), which is an activity true to my heart that helps hundreds of kids each year. Please keep me posted about your ongoings and activities, and reach out to me every once in while. Love to you all... Kelly

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@kdubois Good luck in your new job. Is that HP Hood, the dairy company? I thought that was just east coast.
Being a technical writer sounds great, is that what you have done before? My daughter is a writer in business, but not a technical writer. Her title is "content strategist", whatever that means! She used to free-lance but now works for TD Ameritrade.
I hope your daughter's robotics team does great too. For some reason my son and daughter never got involved in that, but I think my daughter would have done well in it, she just did not have a lot of confidence in HS. She actually started college as a physics major so she does have a math/science mind.
JK

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@kdubois

Wanted to let everyone know that I won't be able to attend and will be reducing my role here on Connect. Having become healthy enough to return to work full-time for the first time seven years -- all thanks to Mayo Clinic -- I now lack the bandwidth to be able to juggle so many activities. I love my new job as the first technical writer ever hired in the history of HP Hood LLC's 140+ year history, and I am now also Assistant Team Leader / Co-Advisor of my daughter's robotics team (Greater Rochester Robotics FIRST Robotics Competition Team 340), which is an activity true to my heart that helps hundreds of kids each year. Please keep me posted about your ongoings and activities, and reach out to me every once in while. Love to you all... Kelly

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@kdubois

Congratulations on your new job, Kelly. How wonderful that your health has improved so that working is possible again. You will be missed on Connect. Do check in with us and let us know how you are doing

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@debbraw

OK...in response to @colleenyoung asking for "get to know" tidbits:

Fun fact is what I like to do for fun:
I'm a stained glass artist and even when I scrape up my fingers and bleed on my artwork, I love it.

Nuggets of wisdom:
There are only three prayers: Help! Thank You! and Wow! (Novelist Anne Lamott)
Believe me when I say that I have often needed to get my prayer up quickly and said one of those three w/o any elaboration.

I'm going to sneak in a 2nd from Rilke: Just keep going. No feeling is ever final.
Both of these nuggets have kept me going at various times in my life!

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I love to read Anne Lamott also @debbraw

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@colleenyoung

@retiredteacher, indeed this teleconference includes you.

In fact, this particular meeting is to celebrate our recent inductees to the mentor group @contentandwell @debbraw @mamacita @retiredteacher. While she's been a mentor for a while, it will be the first teleconference where @alpaca will be able to join us from New Zealand.

During the meeting we'll get to know one another and get updates about our fellow mentors currently on leave as well as describe the new "alumni mentor" designation.

Mentors on leave:
– intend (health willing) to return to mentor on Connect
– still have access to the Mentor group
– are welcome to participate in mentor activities
– remain a member of Connect; reading, liking and posting as able

Currently, @gman007 @jimhd @sandytoes14 are taking some time on leave until they are able to resume being active as mentors.

Alumni Mentor allows past mentors to participate as members on Connect and at the same time acknowledges the service they provided as a mentor in the past.
Alumni Mentors:
– no longer intend to return to mentor officially on Connect
– still have access to the Mentor group
– are no longer obliged to take part in the mentor activities
– remain a member of Connect

And I will update everyone on the recent alumni status of @cynaburst and @kdubois

See the full agenda at the top of this discussion thread.

Let's continue the get-to-know @hopeful33250 @predictable @gailb @windwalker @travelgirl @dawn_giacabazi @IndianaScott @alpaca
- Share a fun fact about you
- What nugget of wisdom would you like to share with the new mentors?

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Hi everyone,
Sorry its been a super busy couple of weeks. So im bopping on and off of here.

A fun fact about me.
Well I have the need for speed. I busted three engine mounts on my first car when I was 16yrs old..and went through a full set mag wheels in 30 days. I had a 1970 cougar 4 barrel cleveland engine. Too may Break torks. I was in major trouble... Lol..

So my advice to the new mentors. When you get lost in your sea notifications, like I do. I go to the groups I follow and look at the posts and comments. It is faster doing that to find your name tag. Than trying to stroll through 99 notifications. Cause in three hours you can get that many notifications. There is no way to single out your mentions, likes or new comments. I wish there was a way to sort the notifications by new comments, likes and mentions. It would help you find where your name was mentioned, and answer people faster.

I wish everyone the best and I am so sorry I have to miss this meeting.
Talk to everyone soon.
Jackie

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@travelgirl

Hi everyone,
Sorry its been a super busy couple of weeks. So im bopping on and off of here.

A fun fact about me.
Well I have the need for speed. I busted three engine mounts on my first car when I was 16yrs old..and went through a full set mag wheels in 30 days. I had a 1970 cougar 4 barrel cleveland engine. Too may Break torks. I was in major trouble... Lol..

So my advice to the new mentors. When you get lost in your sea notifications, like I do. I go to the groups I follow and look at the posts and comments. It is faster doing that to find your name tag. Than trying to stroll through 99 notifications. Cause in three hours you can get that many notifications. There is no way to single out your mentions, likes or new comments. I wish there was a way to sort the notifications by new comments, likes and mentions. It would help you find where your name was mentioned, and answer people faster.

I wish everyone the best and I am so sorry I have to miss this meeting.
Talk to everyone soon.
Jackie

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@travelgirl, Jackie, that first sentence of yours does not surprise me at all!

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@debbraw

OK...in response to @colleenyoung asking for "get to know" tidbits:

Fun fact is what I like to do for fun:
I'm a stained glass artist and even when I scrape up my fingers and bleed on my artwork, I love it.

Nuggets of wisdom:
There are only three prayers: Help! Thank You! and Wow! (Novelist Anne Lamott)
Believe me when I say that I have often needed to get my prayer up quickly and said one of those three w/o any elaboration.

I'm going to sneak in a 2nd from Rilke: Just keep going. No feeling is ever final.
Both of these nuggets have kept me going at various times in my life!

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@debbraw Girl.....my hat is off to you in your stained glass hobby. That requires so much patience. (patience that I don't have for that) I am a fellow artist as well. A painter and jewelry designer.

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@kdubois Hi Kelly. That is great news that you got well and are back to work. The robotics sound like a very interesting thing to be engaged with. Best of luck to you and thank you for your contributions to Connect. Please do stay in touch with us.

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@travelgirl

Hi everyone,
Sorry its been a super busy couple of weeks. So im bopping on and off of here.

A fun fact about me.
Well I have the need for speed. I busted three engine mounts on my first car when I was 16yrs old..and went through a full set mag wheels in 30 days. I had a 1970 cougar 4 barrel cleveland engine. Too may Break torks. I was in major trouble... Lol..

So my advice to the new mentors. When you get lost in your sea notifications, like I do. I go to the groups I follow and look at the posts and comments. It is faster doing that to find your name tag. Than trying to stroll through 99 notifications. Cause in three hours you can get that many notifications. There is no way to single out your mentions, likes or new comments. I wish there was a way to sort the notifications by new comments, likes and mentions. It would help you find where your name was mentioned, and answer people faster.

I wish everyone the best and I am so sorry I have to miss this meeting.
Talk to everyone soon.
Jackie

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Hi Jackie, you make me laugh because I am old🧓 according to my grandchild (because I don't have to work any more and can take vacations). I admire your spunk. It shows in your communications, too!

I agree that there can be overwhelming amount of notifications at times.

Here are some tips that help me:
-I have found that by editing my notification preferences in
Account Settings, I can eliminate some of the clutter.

-My preference is to read thru my emails and to quickly scroll and determine the ones that I feel are important to me and need my attention - either now or save for later. I also look for those where I might be mentioned by Colleen,a moderator, or another mentor because sometimes I want to respond if I am tagged to respond (needed) to a particular discussion that I don't usually follow.

-I also like to check in on the Mentor and Moderator Group on a regular basis. This is where Colleen posts Information and updates for our group. The [brackets] tell me if she is posting a [Tip], [Idea], [Help Needed] etc. It's also where we, the mentors, can communicate and support each other. I would be lost without this feature!

-My own priority to the groups that I have selected to follow. And to myself-self care is always first.

-Lastly - I think that a simple click of a 'Like' can mean a lot to a member 😃

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