How do people find mentors / career coaches? I’m looking to grow specific skills like dealing with hard clients, being able to sell them extra work etc without being pushy, dealing w internal politics..

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For me it comes from having a great direct manager from work. In those situations, usually we’d just have such a great rapport at work that we’d want to stay in contact if someone was let go, quit, moved on etc.

From there it’s just setting up a coffee hang and catching up. Talking about life, work, whatever. They’re really a professional friend that tends to be a little more seasoned and just automatically understands they’ve been where you’re currently at.

This probably would take minute to happen because rarely do we ever work with people we actually like; BUT if/once you do, STAY IN TOUCH!

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Have a gander at the below:

https://joinfishbowl.com/comment_1d4ep8vnro

It’s worth searching the strategy & planning bowl as this topic comes up fairly frequently.

Consider posting a series of these questions there and Sweathead. But you might need to elaborate on some of these areas - e.g. difficult clients - like how? Busy? Too critical? Only focused on certain areas?

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this is helpful thank you! I think more like convincing clients to treat us more like strategic brand partners instead of just a design shop that does their work for them

All of mine came from networking and people I respected in my past who I worked with.

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Do you still go to networking events? If so which ones do you go to

Find a job you want and find someone good at it, and swallow your pride and say yes sir and understand that it was you that seeked the mentorship, which is an admittal that something isn't right. Swallow the pride and emulate someone you want to be like and change.

ya i don’t care much about pride, I just haven’t found the person (I think that’s the hardest part)

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