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Vice President of Membership Report
Membership and Mentorship
By CDR Michael Short, USN
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I would love to say that I am where I am because of my own hard work and sustained superior performance, but I cannot. I must give credit to all the leaders who offered me sage words of advice, my peers, and to those I have led and mentored along the way.
While standing up HSM-35, there was a history to the command and a legacy that we were bringing back to the sea wall. The command’s motto is “A Legacy of Excellence.” When you are an active mentor, you are building a legacy as well.
A mentorship is a relationship between two people where the individual with more experience, knowledge, and connections can pass along what they have learned to a more junior individual within a certain field. The more senior individual is usually the mentor, and the more junior individual is the mentee.
The mentor benefits because they can lead turn the future generation in an area they care about and ensure that best practices are passed along. Meanwhile, the mentee benefits because they have proven that they are ready to take the next step in their career and can receive the extra help needed to make that advancement.
As a member of NHA, I need YOUR help. I have worked with our website designers to help build the Mentorship Portal. The portal is a search engine that will allow you to put yourself out there or seek out a mentor. It is currently in a soft opening phase and will be ready for prime time soon. First, I need you to update your profile and select areas in which you are willing to be a mentor. Then, I need you to poke around under the Membership Tab and select Mentorship. Until we get more members to update their profiles, we will not have enough profiles for an effective search.
This is a way to add value to your membership. I implore you to help build a legacy of excellence and to make every Membership count. In the end, we are STRONGER TOGETHER!
CAPT Amy "B-12" Bauernschmidt Lifetime Member #220 Newest Lifetime Member #440, CAPT Wes Cooper, USN (Ret.)
