MENTOR MATH ®

MENTOR MATH ® is a new initiative from The Professional Careerist © to help careerists, like yourself, identify and remember important relationships between critical success concepts & activites.  

It’s called MENTOR MATH ® because, as your personal & professional mentor, The Professional Careerist © wants to help you stay focused on the right activities to help propel you toward your deserved – and achievable – success!  Like what you would find on a flash card, MENTOR MATH ® equations are short and sweet, yet resonate a strong message to help you spring forward in your life and career successes.  

Keep them in mind always, as you network, as you look to new ways to improve your effectiveness and as you continue to strive for new goals & objectives.  Without a doubt, MENTOR MATH ® will exercise your strategy muscle to keep you attuned to effective and successful behaviors & activities that will enable you to create the career you want and lead the life you want to live.

MENTOR MATH ® is the resource to help careerists the world over bridge the gap between ambition and action.  

 

“STRATEGY + ACTION + INTEGRITY= CAREERISM”

A careerist’s most important formula to live by.  Let strategy be the plan of action that you define for yourself in order to achieve your desired goals.  Take the necessary actions in order to carry out your strategy and achieve success.  In all that you do, make sure that you act with integrity; be true to yourself and always treat people with respect.  Always remember that people are more likely to help those who pay it forward over self-serving individuals.   

 

“GOALS x PRODUCTIVITY x EFFICIENCY x RESULTS = SUCCESS”

You need to set your goals, identify the actions you need to take to achieve those goals, perform these actions in the most efficient ways to achieve desired results and manage your progress to ensure that you are always on track to what you initially set out to do.  By maximizing the clarity of your goals, managing your progress and working smart to achieve desired results, you will also maximize the success you achieve!  

 

“EXPOSURE  = NETWORKING = CONTACTS = OPPORTUNITIES”

Exposure means putting yourself out there either through participating in different activities or by promoting yourself through your skills, accomplishments and personal brand.  Increasing your exposure will give you access to more networking opportunities as you  meet an increasing number of people.  Networking with different people enables you to connect with a number of like-minded individuals and to make genuine contacts through shared interests which can lead to future opportunities. 

 

“ORGANIZATION = CONTROL = PROMOTIONS”

Organization is the discipline of defining your goals and defining the actions you need to take in order to achieve them.  Organization increases your level of control: you are on top of your stuff, you know what you have to get done and you know what you need to do it.  People look up to others with a sense of control.  If you exhibit control people will have confidence in you.  If people have confidence in you they will be more than likely to give you more power… read: promotions.  

 

“COMMUNICATION SKILLS = PROFESSIONALISM = CONTROL = PROMOTIONS”

Strong communications skills are the ability to communicate important information in a succinct manner, to the right audience and to be able to vary your approach accordingly.  Professionalism is the direct result of exhibiting strong communication skills because it demonstrates to your colleagues that you value their time and expertise.  Professionalism increases your level of control because you exhibit the right qualities a leader should have and as a result, your colleagues will look up to you.  The more people have confidence in you and your abilities, the more power you will be given.  

 

“PRACTICALITY + PASSION = SUCCESS”

Passion gives you the creative energy and physical stamina you need to pursue your goals.  Practicality gives you the objectivity to constantly reevaluate your strengths and weaknesses as you pursue your goals to help you identify areas of improvement as well as measure your progress against your personal and professional roadmaps.

Make sure that you have a passion for whatever it is you want to pursue and that you have some of the basic talents or abilities you will need in order to be successful.  Think of your abilities as the tools you need to achieve and make your passion a reality.  Passion may be enough to initiate the pursuit of a goal but being good at it will help to guarantee – and maximize – the success you experience.

 

“NO NETWORK = NO INTERVIEWS”

It has become increasingly difficult to get access to the jobs we want, let alone interviews for them.  In addition to the right skills and education, in order to land the interview that will land us the job of our dreams, we need access to the right people… we find these people in our network.  Our diversified contacts will vouch for us and present us with a variety of new opportunities to which we would otherwise not have been exposed.  It’s not about exploitation, but rather cooperation.  Return the favor, pay it forward and watch the number of opportunities presented to you grow!   

 

“PERSISTENCE + VISION = SUCCESS”

Vision is your definition of the end results you want to achieve as well as a roadmap of identified milestones that will help you get there.  Persistence is your ability to remain focused on your goals and to keep plugging at them despite challenges and obstacles that may arise along the way.  Success is the ability to keep on pursuing something when others would give up and to see the possibilities when the path is still not clear.