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Mentoring from Boost - Nature

Posted: Sep 28, 2012

Well, it finally happened. I got the e-mail from Boost saying I had been chosen to be mentored. I don't understand. I ALWAYS get my line count and more. I always type my hours. I have had some good numbers on the Boost reports, one 5, one 3.5, but I have also gotten two 1s, as I do not speed the report up during the report, and I don't use the arrow keys to go to the beginning of the paragraph and such. Can someone please tell me how the Boost mentoring works. I don't mind saying I am very nervous about it....scared to death is more like it. Thanks.

No need to be afraid of this. I think all of us will - Kiki

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eventually be put on this. I don't think it has anything to do with those scores at all.

I had it, not so bad. SM - SBH

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You may even find some of the tips they give you useful. The person I had was very nice and personable. I had 2 sessions, she went explained the numbers on the reports that have beeen sent out. She went over some short cut keys on ADT, etc. For the second meeting I had written some questions that I had and we went over those first, then she went over more short cut keys. I did find some of the short cuts very useful. Not a complete waste of time. I hope you find some benefit in it too :)

BOOST MONITORING - Nature

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So, do they have you type a report, and then they tell you what short-cut keys you should have used? How does it work. Will they pick apart my report, or what?

the person I had was very nice. No judgement at all. SM - SBH

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At first I thought this would be a waste of time like the last mentoring program was. I thought I would just go through the motions and comply to get it over with. However, I did suprisingly find a few useful tips. The person I had just had me open a document and I had control of the it while she told differnet keystroke combinations to navigate without using the mouse. I think it is all designed around the "hands free" do not use the mouse idea to increase production. Of course they say it is all about you and increasing your line counts to increase your pay, but we know what they really want.

Then she took control of the document to show me some things.

Don't fret it. You won't be judged or scored or anything like that. They just want you to be more productive to make them more money, I mean so you make more money :)

Same here - me

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I also got a 1 on the same issues you did. I really haven't had a reason to speed up the report or navigate to beginning and ends of paragraphs. I really can't see why I would need to use either one of these things unless the doctor gets on a personal phone call or something.

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