Mentors benefit both your employees and your business. Working closely with a carefully selected mentor can help an employee grow professionally and personally. A mentor can help focus one’s development through their knowledge, candid feedback, and goal setting. A mentorship program also can build a more skilled and productive workforce, providing a competitive advantage.

Join us in September for a free, in-person panel discussion on the value of formal mentorship programs. Learn how mentors help develop talent in the highly competitive broadcast news business and how this strategy can be transferred to other industries.

There will be a Q&A session, as well as opportunity to meet the panelists.

Workshop Highlights

• Who benefits the most from a mentor?
• What type of person makes the best mentor?
• Why it is so important to effectively pair an employee with a mentor?
• How to manage everyone’s expectations?
• Tips for launching a mentorship program

Your Host:

Jennifer Llewellyn, Director of Oakland County Workforce Development

Panelists:

Huel Perkins, Former Anchorman at WJBK Fox 2 Detroit

Perkins’ award-winning, 40-year career in broadcasting included 33 years as an anchorman and reporter at the local Detroit network affiliate, as well as mentoring a number of television news journalists at the station.

Roop Raj, Anchorman at WJBK Fox 2 Detroit

Raj is the current evening news anchorman at Fox 2 Detroit. He also has won a number of broadcasting awards. Raj began his career in Flint and then worked in New Orleans before returning to Michigan in 2009 to join Fox 2. He also mentors broadcast professional