Any mentor is expected to perform well at:

• Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Convincing others to accept and idea or to otherwise change their minds or actions in accordance to the companies objectives.
• Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Selecting and administering tests for evaluating hearing or related disabilities.
• Administering basic hearing tests including air conduction, bone conduction, or speech audiometry tests.
• Training clients to using hearing aids or other augmentative communication devices.
• Creating or modifying impressions for earmolds and hearing aid shells.
• Maintaining or repairing hearing aids or other communication devices.
• Demonstrating assistive listening devices (alds) to clients.
• Diagnosing and treating hearing or related disabilities under the direction of an audiologist.
• Performing basic screening procedures, such as pure tone screening, otoacoustic screening, immittance screening, and screening of ear canal status using otoscope.
• Assisting audiologists in performing aural procedures, such as real ear measurements, speech audiometry, auditory brainstem responses, electronystagmography, and cochlear implant mapping.
• Reading current literature, talk with colleagues, and participating in professional organizations or conferences for keeping abreast of developments in audiology.