Mentors and Professional Groups

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Mentors and Professional Groups

Phil Factor

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May 28, 2016 at 5:06 pm

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David.Poole SSC Guru Points: 75898 More actions · Answer 1

Face to face is extremely effective because the communication is verbal and visual and a true dialogue.

Written communication gives the opportunity to think before acting but requires a great deal of skill in order to transmit exactly what was intended.

With a geographically dispersed workforce, face to face is constrained to video tech which is better than nothing. If you've had to use it when it works it works and when it doesn't it is immensely frustrating. One of the frustrations is that companies try and do it on the cheap. Fuzzy microphones and tinny speakers undermine the whole experience. Trying to mentor and guide over such a setup makes it hard to pick up on vital cues from the recipient.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 2

From the Article:
It didn’t always go smoothly, I’ll admit. Frank Whittle, the inventor of the turbojet engine, presented the idea at a meeting of his professional association, only to be told in the subsequent discussion that the idea could never work. Brunel was told by the eminent Dionysius Lardner at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that it was completely impossible for a steam liner to travel across the Atlantic.

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