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In The Apprentice Mindset, Keys for Your Professional Journey, Katarvia Taylor posits that an oft-overlooked path to achieving mastery and professional development lies in the way humans have acquired skills for millennia through apprenticeships: the practice of a novice working with an expert or master where they observe, learn, grow, and eventually achieve mastery.
The Apprentice Mindset gives career advice distilled from the authors observation, research, and lived experiences. It tells the stories of individuals who achieved success because of decisions they made when they were new to a job. It describes how the apprentices learned from their masters and went on to make their marks on history.
Through compelling master-apprentice pair stories, Taylor provides practical and actionable keys to guide new entrants to the job market, as well as those transitioning to new positions, along their professional journey. You will be inspired by the apprentices who seized and embraced opportunities to learn from masters and by the masters who created enabling environments that resulted in success.

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The Apprentice Mindset

The Apprentice Mindset

Keys for Your Professional Journey

Katarvia Taylor

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New Degree Press

Copyright 2022 Katarvia Taylor

All rightsreserved.

The Apprentice Mindset

Keys for Your Professional Journey

ISBN 979-8-88504-106-5 Paperback

979-8-88504-735-7 Kindle Ebook

979-8-88504-214-7 Ebook

To my parents, Earle and Betty

Contents
Authors Note

What is an apprentice mindset? How can it help you navigate and accelerate your professional career?

The Apprentice Mindset gives early career advice that is distilled from experience, observation, and research. It offers examples of successful starting-out strategies and tells the stories of those who succeeded brilliantly as a result of choices and decisions they made when they were new to a job. It explains why their careers became stellar and how they learned from their masters and went on to make their singular mark on history. The Apprentice Mindset makes clear how different choices of priorities can play out later in dramatically different ways, and how decisions and attitudes at the beginning of ones career or during a transition can make the difference between distinguishing oneself as one matures professionallyor remaining a tiny cog.

You can read the chapters in order, or you can select the keys and stories that most interest you and seem most applicable to the answers you are looking for. Let this book speak to you, and enjoy the journey!

Chapter 1: What Is an Apprenticeship? An apprenticeship is a transactional relationship whereby a master trains an apprentice in his/her craft under a contractual agreement that defines the conditions and terms of the working relationship.

Chapter 2: Observe to GrowShun the Must-Impress Mindset and Embrace the Apprentice Mindset. The transition from college to workforce or from one career to another is an exciting time. You may feel tempted or pressured to impress from the minute you walk through the doorbut resist the urge. Instead of adopting a must-impress mindset, which is single-mindedly focused on impressing the higher-ups, take on an apprentices mindset. Be curious, observe, and learn; focus on reproducing the excellence you observe. Prioritize observational learning. Watch the master. Soak up the behaviors, attitudes, and skills they are modelingthen imitate and improve on them to achieve mastery.

Chapter 3: Take Advantage of Tacit Knowledge: Learn Know-How from the Masters. Tacit knowledge is the type of knowledge, skills, ideas, and experiences that are not easily transmissible. During an apprenticeship, you will be able to benefit from the masters know-how knowledge (practical knowledge on how to do something), which differs from explicit or know-what knowledge (facts).

Chapter 4: To Ape or Not to Ape? Imitate, Dont Emulatein the Beginning. At the beginning of your career, or during a transition, some skills are like a black box whose inner workings are hard to discern and understand. These are the complex skills you learn by imitating masters in precise detail. As counterintuitive as it may seem, imitating masterscopying their exact actionswill help you grasp skills more quickly and give you a deeper and more rapid cognitive understanding of the environment. At the outset, you do not want to emulate results, you want to imitate processes. In that way, you will gain access to a level of understanding that is revealed only when you go through the actions. This chapter makes clear how imitation allows for the kind of deep cultural learning that leads to mastery: You do not just learn from others, you learn through them.

Chapter 5: Prioritize the Who over the What and Where. When you are assessing job options, among your top three considerations should be who you will be working with. Salary, titles, and prestigious company names are seductive and of course important; in the long run, however, they will not accelerate skill acquisition the way working with a master does. The relationship with the master is likely to gain the apprentice access to people and rooms where they will be able to observe plans and decisions being made and pick up on the skills needed to move up to the next level.

Chapter 6: Develop Soft Skills: Build the Interpersonal Skills and Personal Traits Needed to Succeed. Soft skills are difficult to learn in a classroom. Watching, imitating, and tacit learning will teach you how to influence others and think strategically. Adopting an apprentice mindset that is predicated on learning from the most successful master will teach you drive, resilience, versatility, and the ability to solve complex problems.

Chapter 7: Welcome and Seek Out Tough Feedback. Feedback is a gift. It gives you insight into how you are perceived and where you need more development or course-correction. Receiving tough feedback can be hard on the ego, but seeking it out proactively will allow you to accelerate your professional development. When you get it, you should reflect and act on it.

Chapter 8: Read the Air: Learn the Unspoken and Unwritten Rules. All societies, communities, and cultures have unspoken and unwritten rules. No one will tell you what they are because they are embedded in the environment and in the social matrix, and thus are invisible and unarticulated. As a newcomer, you must look for them, learn them, and adopt them, and the best way to do this is by observing and imitating the people who are masters of your new domain.

Chapter 9: Learn Fast, Work Hard, and Deliver Results. An apprenticeship is not only about learningyou have to deliver quality and, ideally, excellence. Work hard to meet high expectations and, in time, you will achieve mastery and enter the guild of masters.

Chapter 10: Lets Get PracticalStarting, Managing, and Ending an Apprenticeship. Apprenticeships are finite and transactional; they will have a beginning and an end. When starting, choose a master to observe and imitate. Manage and nurture the relationship with this admired and respected person. Observe the masters high expectation of themselves and meet their high expectations of you. Put in the hard work (and the long hours). Take on assignments that stretch and challenge you. When it is time to move on, express sincere gratitude. Dont burn bridges; lay the groundwork for on-going relationships. When you have achieved mastery, set out on your own. When the opportunity arises, help someone in the way others have helped you.

Part I
Introduction

Apprenticeship is a proven model for developing a skilled workforce.

Eugene Scalia

One cold winter afternoon in 2017, I was working with my boss from her home office in Reston, Virginia. Rosa was sitting at her massive wooden desk reading briefing material, and I sat comfortably on a Persian rug, my legs folded under me and my back against the legs of a plush red guest chair. My laptop was on the coffee table in front of me, as was a second monitor, a notebook, two pens, three cell phones, and a bottle of water. I was multitasking. Between answering sporadic questions on the content of the briefing material, I was responding to e-mails and WhatsApp messages while keeping a watchful eye on the clock: A conference call was going to start in a few minutes.

Three minutes before call time, I dialed us into the teleconference, muted the phone, and waited for the host, someone who was looking to conduct business with Rosa in Africa. It was a routine call, and I knew the drill: Rosa would listen, assess if something was there, and if yes, I would operationalize it.

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