Fall 2012
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Volume 39.1
2012 – 2013 YRMA Chapter Officers
Marc Massad – Membership Chair
Mutual of Omaha
Happenings…Our Calendar of Events
Tiffany Eitel – Vice Chair
American Receivables Corporation
12/5/12 – YRMA Charity Happy Hour for Generation
Patrick Reilly – Treasurer
Lane Gorman Trubitt, PLLC
Heroes – Quarter Bar
Eric Seidenberger – Programs Co-Chair
Patriot Bank
2/6/13 – YRMA Happy Hour – Times Ten Wine Bar
Nick Wells – Programs Co-Chair
Whitley Penn, LLP
3/6/13 – YRMA Lunch & Learn: Things We Wish We Knew
Sarah Davis – Programs Co-Chair
Amegy Bank of Texas
When We Were Starting – Roundtable Setting
Armando Fletes – Education Chair/Secretary
Legacy Bank
Andrew Olsan – Communications Chair
Jackson Walker L.L.P.
Kyle Harger – Membership Chair
Amegy Bank of Texas
Rachel Uselton – Board Member
Comerica
Eric Roten – Board Member
American National Bank of Texas
A Message from Your Young Professional Leader
What another great year for the RMA and more importantly the Young Professionals group here in North Texas. With
continued support from the local North Texas and State RMA chapters, we are having a successful year with a full calendar.
At least one event a month has been scheduled from hosting community and civic leaders for lunches to happy hours and
to our upcoming holiday event where we will give back to the community by raising funds to help children fight cancer here
in North Texas. The entire board for our group is fully engaged, and total membership continues to grow. Our plans for the
new year are to continue to reach out to our "big" RMA members, take a tour of the Dallas Federal Reserve, volunteer with
a local charity and of course, continue to network and grow our group. We have since started our LinkedIn page for the
North Texas Young RMA group, so check us out. We want to hear from all of you and please get involved. Have a
wonderful and safe holiday season and we look forward to 2013 together.
Cheers,
Marc Massad, Chapter President
Career Corner
10 Reasons You Need a Mentor, Especially MidCareer
by Newell (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
Dima Berdiev
Behind every corporate logo is a
culture filled with personalities,
politics, and procedures. How do
you navigate this new landscape,
excel at your job, and advance your
career? Find a mentor.
A report released by the Anita Borg
Institute for Women and
Technology found that “mentoring
has been associated with higher job
satisfaction, higher promotion rates,
higher future income, increased
work success, and higher retention
rates.”
Dr. Lois Zachary, author of The
Mentor’s Guide – Facilitating
Effective Learning Relationships,
The Mentee’s Guide: Making
Mentoring Work for You, and
Creating a Mentoring Culture: The
Organization’s Guide, asserts that
mentoring is a leadership
competency. “Mentoring shouldn’t
just be the result of a formal
program, leaders should always be
looking to grow. Learning is the
purpose, process, and product of
mentoring.”
Crucial for Women and
Minorities
Audrey Murrell, Associate Professor
of Business Administration at the
University of Pittsburgh and
Director of the David Berg Center
for Ethics and Leadership, conducts
research on the barriers for women
and minorities in the corporate
sector. Author of Mentoring
Dilemmas: Developmental
Relationships within Multicultural
Organizations, Murrell believes that
mentoring is a crucial value-add for
women and minorities.
She advocates building a portfolio
of mentors to meet different needs
and grow various aspects of your
career. She also supports the idea of
formal mentoring programs in
organizations.
Murrell explains that many times women and minorities
are locked out of informal networks. Her data shows that
formal mentoring programs equalize access to people,
resources, and information, and is an important aspect of
an organization’s diversity program.
Mentors are especially important for women who work in
fields dominated by men. Do mentors for women have to
be women? Zachary advises finding the right person that
fits your needs, regardless of gender. Michele Ashby
began her career as a stockbroker and mining analyst.
With the support of a male mentor, she became an expert
and one of the first women to speak at gold mining
conferences and is now CEO of MINE LLC.
Rosemary Bayer began her career in Information
Technology in the automotive industry. She found a
female executive at a large automotive supplier to be her
first mentor. “When I am sitting on a panel, I always talk
about finding mentors and role models, and about
building your network. My first mentor experience, with
Menttium, taught me the completely unexpected value of
having connections, friends, and people outside your work
space.” Bayer founded the Michigan Council of Women
in Technology (and MCWT Foundation) and began
ardentCause L3C.
Why Mentors are Vital for Senior Leaders Too
Many think that mentors are only for women on their way
up. Do you need a mentor once you reach a senior level?
Absolutely, Zachary says, in her article Help on the Way:
Senior Leaders Can Benefit from Working with a Mentor.
In an executive position, time is at a premium and most
choose to mentor others instead of spending time on their
own learning, but Zachary contends that mentoring is vital
at all points in your career.
1.
Perspective and Experience. A mentor can
give you the benefit of his or her perspective and
experience. He or she can help you assimilate to
a new position and give you an insider’s view on
how to get things done.
Bayer agrees, “This was the value to me of
working with my first real mentor. She knew all
about navigating big, traditional companies and
how the structure and promotional system
works. She helped me build my ‘personal board
of directors,’ people who provided support for
me, and how to make a ‘dance card’ whenever I
was going to a large corporate event of some
type (to make sure I had people to try and talk
with and know what I was going to talk about).
This mentor gave me the help I needed to
advance my career significantly, starting that
year.”
To read this article in its entirety, please visit:
http://www.theglasshammer.com/news/2009/12/22/10reasons-to-have-a-mentor-especially-mid-career/
Top 5 Reasons to
Invest in Your
Future by Joining
RMA
1.
Increase your exposure to
the banking industry.
2.
Use RMA’s resources to
become a resource!
3.
Expand your network of
professional contacts
outside of your own
institution.
4.
Create your own
professional edge via
RMA information,
training, and updates.
5.
Get involved and increase
your own skill set:
leadership, teamwork,
presentation, and
delegation skills.
Joining RMA is an investment
in yourself and your future.
Make that investment!
www.rmahq.org.
Career Reads
Dot Mentoring Handbook
An online resource.
"Mentoring is an open vista of
new experiences and
possibilities." This online
handbook will guide you
through the mentoring process–
what it means to be a mentor,
the roles and responsibilities of
each party, and the different
styles that you can adopt to meet
the unique demands of a
mentoring relationship. The
mentor-mentee relationship is
charted from beginning to end
by tips on how to identify a
mentee, cultivate the
relationship, and avoid obstacles
that can detour a mentor-mentee
relationship. Finally, this
handbook outlines the positive
effects of a mentoring
relationship–effects that are
shared by the mentor, the
mentee, and the organization.