Mentors and Role Models w/ Andrew Greaves
HVAC School - For Techs, By Techs
Bryan Orr
4.9 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Greaves joins us again from AHR 2020. This time, he discusses what mentors and role models do in our trade and why they're important.
Mentors are not just the grouchy senior techs who throw hammers at apprentices. Mentors have an active role in others' professional development; they spend a lot of time with their mentees and actively aid their growth. Not everyone is cut out to be a mentor, as the role comes with a lot of responsibility (and possibly stress). Role models indirectly influence others by doing good work and inspiring others to do the highest quality work; we should all strive to be role models.
However, the mentees need to put in a lot of work and must have emotional intelligence. Both mentor and mentee need to ask questions about the work and each other. The relationship is all about involvement and intentionality.
Mentors also have to care about their mentees as people, not just as students or technicians. They respect their mentees' values and acknowledge where their own shortcomings are when communicating with their mentees. However, mentors also know when to question and challenge their mentees when necessary. Mentees are entitled to clarity, and a good mentor understands that there has to be mutual understanding and trust in the relationship.
Relationships take time, and mentors usually need to give their mentees a chance to prove their work ethic before they commit to the mentorship. As a mentor, you must understand that your mentee doesn't have your perspective, and that's where empathy and expectation management are required.
Andrew and Bryan also discuss:
- Individual learning styles
- Formalization of mentorship
- Investment in training vs. mentorship
- "Multimedia" and internet mentorship
- Dave Barefoot stories
- How to start a mentor-mentee relationship
- Filtering through unsuitable mentees
- Setting expectations before goals
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| 0:00.0 | So this is one of many podcasts recorded live from AHR Expo 2020 here in Orlando. |
| 0:09.9 | My hometown, HR was nice enough to allow us to record and to set up some great equipment for us. |
| 0:16.3 | So big thanks to AHR for doing this. |
| 0:18.4 | It's been a great event. |
| 0:20.1 | Thank you to all of our sponsors, Field Piece, Carrier, Navac, Refrigeration Technologies, |
| 0:25.9 | and Speed Clean for making this podcast and all of our podcast possible. |
| 0:30.4 | But most of all, thank you to everybody who participated in these episodes and who came up and said so many nice things about what we're doing at HVAC school. |
| 0:38.2 | Hope you enjoy. |
| 0:51.0 | And And now the man whose body odor has been deemed an ozone depleting substance according to the Montreal Protocol, Brian Orr. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey this is Brian. |
| 0:57.0 | This episode is with Andrew Grieves. |
| 0:59.0 | I would call Andrew a friend at this point. |
| 1:01.0 | We've had a lot of conversations and he's had a lot of |
| 1:04.2 | changes in his life recently but he's doing great things and Andrew's always |
| 1:08.3 | been passionate about talking about mentorship in the trades and apprenticeship and |
| 1:12.2 | so I brought him to the stage to talk about |
| 1:14.8 | mentorship and being a role model and what the difference is he had some really |
| 1:19.3 | good thoughts on that and so I hope you enjoy this conversation with Andrew Grieves. |
| 1:25.5 | Andrew Grieves everybody, aka HVAC. You still go by that at all? |
| 1:30.3 | People just come up and yeah. |
| 1:32.3 | Say A K. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and, yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:33.0 | Yeah. |
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