“Mentoring helps me pursue my personal goals.”

It’s great that mgm has given me the opportunity to choose a colleague as my mentor. I spent a month thinking about who the right mentor for me would be. Personally, it’s important to me that my mentor doesn’t work in my specialist area, because he shouldn’t help me with technical issues, but with my personal development. I also wanted to have a colleague with whom I could have very confidential conversations. After picking someone, I asked him if he could imagine becoming my mentor. He was pleased to be asked and to be able to pass on his work experience. I meet regularly with my mentor four times a year. We go out to eat together and I can talk to him confidently in a relaxed atmosphere and at eye level about all kinds of things. It is important to me to get advice and to gain from his experience. He helps me in difficult situations, prepares me for the target talks and pursues my personal goals as well as my career planning together with me. It is important to have a mentor who supports you, with whom you can reflect on your actions, who gives feedback and can show you opportunities from a different perspective.