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Unread 03-05-2016, 12:54
GreyingJay GreyingJay is offline
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Re: Hardest personal lesson learned?

Some great lessons here.

For me I echo the comment someone made above that I'm not necessarily the best person for the (any) job, and I'm learning to embrace that.

I could, if needed, step into a variety of roles on my team, as a software mentor, business mentor, pit crew, and so on. Though I only have one prior year of FRC mentoring, I have lots of experience from a variety of past projects that would benefit the team. I've worked with students in other roles, I've helped run other non-profits, I've done marketing, fundraising, promotions, merchandise, websites, social media, video production.

"If needed" is the operative word. We have been lucky to have lots of mentors, parents, and students who want to step into these roles. It's tempting for me to want to inject my opinion on basically everything the team does that overlaps my skill set. I've had to remind myself that others are just as capable, if not more so, and to let them do their thing. It doesn't always end up looking exactly like how I'd envision it, but if the team is happy, then so am I! There's never just one right answer.
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