in-business YBL Program
Issue No. 59 - June/July 2011
Alliance method works for Rachel
Allianz Insurance executive, Rachel Arnott started mentoring to use her skills and experience to foster upcoming leaders.
“By sharing my experiences, I hope my mentees are able to learn from them and gain a different perspective or insight on the challenges and problems all leaders face. This sharing of experience helps young leaders grow, personally and professionally.”
Rachel, who is Project Leader - Customer Services Operations in Allianz’s Adelaide office, considers mentoring a personal development activity.
“It exposes me to new ideas through the diverse individuals I have mentored, and it also is a way of having to self-reflect on how I have tackled challenges and how I can share my learnings with my mentee.
“Mentoring also continuously develops my leadership skills as each mentee is different so each mentoring relationship is unique and I have to adapt to each individuals needs and goals - it keeps me on my toes.
“I take a lot of personal satisfaction from seeing my mentees develop and grow personally and professionally over the time I am involved in the mentoring arrangement. It’s also good to meet with other mentors when I have the opportunity to see how they tackle their relationships and continuously improve my mentoring skills this way.
“I particularly enjoy mentoring as part of the YBL program as I believe this is an opportunity for me to give back to the community via my involvement with such a worthwhile program.”
Rachel has supervised an impressive set of Business Improvement Projects, including introducing new water efficient rebate items for SA Water, streamlining IT procedures at RAA of SA Inc an...
