Mentorship, Design and Creative Engineers with Alyona Volkova

<p>Connect with Alyona Volkova:</p> <p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvol" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvol</a></p> <p><br></p> <p>Full episode on YouTube ▶️</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/jW3xmo27144" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://youtu.be/jW3xmo27144</a></p> <p>New episodes every Wednesday with our host <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-akil">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>!  </p> <p>Big shoutout to <a href="https://xebia.com/">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a> for sponsoring this episode!</p> <p><br></p> <p>OUTLINE:<br>00:00:00 - Intro<br>00:00:25 - Echo-free chambers<br>00:01:00 - Calming yourself down<br>00:03:15 - Overthinking things with public speaking<br>00:05:29 - Recognising yourself in footage<br>00:06:34 - Receiving compliments<br>00:09:29 - Actively self-reflecting<br>00:12:10 - Different ways to retain information<br>00:15:05 - It all started with photoshop<br>00:17:49 - Alyona&#39;s first real job as a developer<br>00:20:40 - Moving from developing to design<br>00:22:38 - Love for software engineering and design<br>00:25:33 - Developers and designers understanding each other<br>00:28:00 - Patrick&#39;s experience working with designers<br>00:29:16 - Creative developers<br>00:32:54 - Alyona&#39;s journey with mentorship<br>00:36:23 - Fulfilment in mentoring<br>00:37:43 - Long-term mentoring relationships<br>00:38:59 - Mentees having similar challenges<br>00:40:20 - Understanding the thought process<br>00:42:20 - The right mindset<br>00:43:41 - How to be a great mentor?<br>00:46:08 - Pair designing and co-creating<br>00:47:47 - Copying designs to learn<br>00:50:18 - Tutorials and knowledge retention<br>00:51:48 - Continuous learning and improving in mentoring<br>00:53:30 - Past, present, future<br>00:55:15 - Crossing paths<br>00:57:18 - Mentoring has changed Alyona<br>01:01:29 - Rounding off</p>