It was lovely to meet up with Niamh Harmon from Sales Force to get her thoughts on being a Mentor. Sales Force offers enterprise and small business CRM solution for sales, marketing, customer service, IT and more. Niamh was great fun to talk to and she felt very passionately about her role as a Mentor.
What is your name and what do you do?
I’m Niamh and I am currently working at Sales Force and I am lead designer there.
Why do you think creative skills are important at second level?
I think they are really important; everyone is creative in their own way but maybe just haven’t tapped into that so I think it’s really important to explore that at an early age.
Can you take us through the process of The B!G Idea mentoring?
As mentors we would have received the pitches from the students and the teachers and then we would have been put in a group with other mentors. So, we would have been able to see what their feedback was, it was interesting to see the different trends and patterns and then people from different industries kind of giving different advice aswell. So we would have fed back at that point and then the students would have went away, taken the feedback on board and then presented a final project which we then rated and voted. It was a really structured process and we were kept in the loop every step of the way.
What was the most important part of mentoring for you?
Seeing the potential weas amazing, I was blown away by some of the ideas that I came across. Just the creativity in the students and the enthusiasm aswell was amazing.
