#4 lessons from mentor

1. What is the purpose of the meeting?
2. Adding more things make the system more complex and it's for the worse when the system is half cooked
3. Ask why did she think in this way?
4. From the shadow, observe the leader and how she handles the conflicts and members.
5. Aim to be amiable and motherly
6. They will be very willing to part skill sets.
7. Finish your core assignments before you head over and help
8. Enjoy your assignments and most importantly, observe
9. See how they evaluate and prioritise accordingly. If both goals cannot be met ie internally and customers, the customers take more priority
10. Don't be afraid to ask. You might see it from the customer perspective and since you were from outside, maybe you'll see things that they failed to see.
11. How to strike a balance between what the members want from the system
12. Become a better project manager

#3 lessons learnt from Mentor

1. Be open
2. Be direct and structured ie write down the structure first then clarify with supervisor ie these are the areas I'm not too sure about
3. Can let supervisor know your strengths and weakness
4. Always have the right attitude
5. Don't be too emotional
6. Can get stressed but once you cross that bridge you'll learn a lot
7. Really good opportunity to learn under a very experienced supervisor
8. May work until very late
9. Try to look at the upsides instead of the downsides
10. Not many interns have an opportunity to work on a new project so it's very exciting
11. Believes that there are always two sides to the story so be objective and list down the happenings. Sit back then think about the possible situations so you'll have a different reaction next time. Trains you to manage and analyse better in the future
12. Don't be fearful and hold back. Won't learn a lot
13. Even if you get abused, at most just once or twice. Learn from it.