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November 2024 Newsletter

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 19:35:49 GMT

SKILLSCALE November 2024 Highlights

Skillscale wishes you a safe and blessed Thanksgiving! We are thankful for the warmth support we received this year from our clients and partners! We could not have done it without you!

Check our latest presentation on the topic of Design Thinking and Systems Thinking located in the CienciaPR YouTube Channel .
This month we provided Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) for Teams training through the UMBC Center of Leadership and Agile. Students were certified as SAFe Practitioners.
We offered consulting and coaching services to the community bringing our expertise to tackle the challenges faced by federal government organizations.
This month, we continued with the providing STEM mentoring as part of the CienciaPR Semillas de Triunfo program and help develop the next generation of female technical leaders in PR. And we continue offering Women in Agile professional mentoring, and college student career planning and STEM mentoring.
Our CEO and founder attained a new Scaled Agile Framework skill in Lean Portfolio Management. We look forward to offer SAFe Lean Portfolio Management training and certifications in the future.

Do you want to see any specific training or have questions? Send us an email to info@skillscaletcm.com or Schedule a meeting today and start your journey to Learn, Grow, and Thrive!

October 2024 Newsletter

Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:00:53 GMT

October 2024 Newsletter

Women in Agile Fall-Winter Mentoring Program

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:16:39 GMT

Women in Agile Mentoring

We are very excited to announce that today we start the Women in Agile mentoring sessions for the fall-winter program.

Briefing Ciencia PR

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:01:34 GMT

Join Us!

We will be briefing CienciaPR this month on the topic of Design Thinking and Systems Design.

Join us on October 17th at 5:00pm EST!

Announcement!

lymari.castro@gmail.com (Lymari Castro-Diaz) — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:24:18 GMT

Ask Me Anything Series

We are excited to introduce our new Ask Me Anything Series!

Ask Me Anything are highly interactive and resourceful sessions where we will discuss a topic, and the facilitators and audience will share their experiences, perspectives, and resources to help you Learn, Grow, and Thrive .

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Certificate of Recognition for Participation in Ciencia PR

Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:56:01 GMT

We are honored to receive this recognition for our participation in the Ciencia Puerto Rico Scientist Service Online! In November, we presented the topic of Design Thinking and its application innovation and STEM disciplines. We had an overwhelming attendance and positive reviews of the session.

The session is available (in Spanish) in the Ciencia PR YouTube channe l .

Want to learn more about Design Thinking? Contact us!

Los beneficios de tener un mentor

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 19:39:04 GMT

¿Qué hace un mentor?

Un mentor es alguien que ayuda a otros a logras sus metas. Un mentor sirve como un modelo a seguir. Esta persona comparte su conocimiento, experiencias, destrezas, y sus conexiones profesionales para ayudar a otros a logras sus metas profesionales y personales. Un mentor motiva e inspira a otros para que sean los futuros líderes y para que mejoren sus destrezas y habilidades. Tener un mentor te puede ayudar a aprender un tema más rápidamente, mejorar tu desarrollo profesional, subir tu nivel de confianza en el trabajo o la escuela, y expandir tus oportunidades profesionales.

¿Qué es mentoría?

Mentoría es una actividad de aprendizaje que es voluntaria y recíproca. Tener un mentor requiere dedicación de parte de el mentor y de el aprendiz. Mentoría conlleva tiempo y esfuerzo de ambos para aprender una técnica nueva, buscar soluciones a un problema, y compartir conocimiento. Un mentor puede discutir varios temas dependiendo de su área de experiencia.

Es responsabilidad de el mentor, proveer un espacio seguro para que la persona pueda investigar y experimentar nuevas ideas y conocimiento con confianza y sin miedo a fracasar.

Mentores no dictan que la otra persona debe de hacer. Al contrario, ellos ofrecen su opinión y aconsejan a el aprendiz sobre la mejor manera de hacer algo o dónde pueden conseguir recursos que le van a ayudar. Aunque los mentores transfieren su conocimiento con otros, y pueden recomendar clases o cursos, el conocimiento se transfiere a la otra persona una manera más casual e informal que si se tomara una clase.

Para que una relación de mentoría sea exitosa, ambas personas deben de sentirse cómodas durante la conversación y establecer los objetivos que se desean conseguir como para de la relación de mentoría.

Tipos de mentoría

Las relaciones de mentoría pueden ser formales o informales.

Durante mentoría formal, el aprendiz identifica los objetivos que desea obtener durante la relación de mentoría, la persona trabajará con el mentor para hacer y ejecutar un plan que lleve a la persona a completar sus metas. Este tipo de relación por lo general es de duración corta con fecha de inicio y fin. Una vez el aprendiz completa sus objetivos, ya puede trabajar independiente de el mentor.

Sin embargo, hay otras relaciones de mentoría que son informales y por lo general tienen más duración. Algunas son las relaciones de mentoría que surgen entre colegas en el trabajo, un maestro y un estudiante, un supervisor y el empleado, padres e hijos, o amistades. En este tipo de relación de mentoría la persona por lo general buscar ayuda con una destreza en específico.

Los beneficios de tener un mentor

Hay muchos beneficios para el aprendiz y el mentor como parte de la relación de mentoría. Aquí hay algunos de los beneficios:

Ganar más seguridad y confianza con un tema o destreza
Aprender nuevas destrezas y técnicas
Expandir tus conexiones sociales
Obtener una perspectiva diferente
Mejorar tus técnicas de pensamiento crítico y de resolver problemas
Mejorar tus destrezas de liderazgo
Aprender recursos nuevos y cómo utilizarlos

¿Estás listo para tener un mentor?

Envíanos un email y reserve tu primera sesión de mentoría gratis (sin compromiso alguno) para discutir tus metas y como podemos ayudarte.

Benefits of Mentoring

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:59:55 GMT

What is a Mentor?

A mentor is someone who can guide you to achieve your goals. Anyone can benefit both personally and professionally from having a mentor. A mentor serves as a role model sharing knowledge, expertise, insights, lessons learned, resources, and best practices to guide you in your path to success. They also share their professional network to increase your opportunities. Mentors motivate and inspire others, develop future leaders and work to improve your skills and abilities. Mentors help build and expand others’ abilities and skills. A mentor can help you increase your work performance, shorten your learning curve, boost your morale, and expand your career horizons, opportunities, and networks.

What is (and is not) Mentoring?

Mentoring is a voluntary and reciprocal learning activity that requires dedication and commitment both from the mentor and the learner. It is a time intensive and recurring activity that allows both parties to learn, solve problems by finding solutions that are feasible, and share knowledge. The mentoring relationship may cover a variety of topics. Good mentors provide an environment of physiological safety for the learner and helps learners investigate and execute ideas with confidence.

Mentoring is an active endeavor where both parties need to commit time and effort to be achieve the desired results. Mentors do not direct others. Instead, they will provide their advice, opinions, and guidance for the learner to decide what works best for them. Although mentors will transfer some of their skills and knowledge with the learners, and they may recommend training, the learning happens in an more informal setting and organically as part of the idea and problem solving exploration.

Mentoring is not a “one size fits all” approach. Both mentors and learners need to feel comfortable with the topics to be discussed and the expected goals and outcomes. Typically, once the learner achieves their goals, they will be able to perform independently and the mentoring relationship will no longer be needed. It is possible to have multiple mentors at different stages of someone’s career depending on the skills needed and the goals to be achieved. Learners are encouraged to leverage the strengths of the mentor to achieve their specific goals.

Types of Mentoring

Mentoring relationships can be formal or informal. In formal mentoring relationships, the learner identifies the objectives they will like to accomplish and will work with the mentor on a plan to achieve their goals. Formal mentoring relationships typically have a start and end date for the engagement.

On the other hand, there is informal mentoring. Informal mentoring relationships can be between the learner with a co-worker, supervisor, teacher, friend or a parent. This type of relationship is more casual and the learner is just seeking guidance with a specific skill or knowledge gap.

The Benefits of Mentoring

There are many benefits of having a mentor. Here are some of them:

Gain confidence and increase your morale
Learn new skills and techniques
Increase your network
Gain a different perspective
Improve your critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Improve your leadership aptitude
Learn new resources and how to use them

Are you ready for mentoring?

Send us an email to book a free mentoring session to discuss your needs and how we can help you!

Welcome / Bienvenido

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 17:53:46 GMT

Welcome to Skillscale LLC. We are a women-owned small business committed to empower the next generation of professionals and technical leaders. We provide Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) training and certifications in the various agile roles, mentoring on STEM topics, Systems Engineering, and Agile methodologies, and consulting services.

Subscribe to our mailing list today, and schedule your first mentoring session for free!

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Bienvenidos a Skillscale LLC. Somos una pequena compania comprometida a empoderar a lo proxima generacion de lideres tecnicos y profesionales. Proveemos adiestramiento y certificaciones de Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), servicios de mentoria en STEM, Ingenieria de Sistemas, y metodos de Agile. En adicion, proveemos servicios de consultoria.

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