The importance of mentoring in telecoms - interview with Anthony Vincent, Openreach

“Mentoring is a vehicle not only to grow others self-awareness, but your own too.” Winner of the ITP’s Mentor of the Year Award 2016, Anthony Vincent has been mentoring for almost eight years. His most recent mentee, Jessica Ashton, was a finalist in the Apprentice of the Year category last year. So, how did it all begin? Starting his career as an apprentice himself, Anthony joined BT straight from school at 16. Over the years, he held several roles, and at 23 was promoted into his first engineering line operational management role. Since then he has worked across transformation, production and supplier management…