The Monday Morning Problem: Ending the Cycle of "I'll Show You Tomorrow"

Everyone's excited about the new hire... until it's 9:00 AM Monday morning.

The HR onboarding is done. The coffee is in hand. Their workstation is ready. But as the excitement of Day 1 settles, an unspoken weight starts to set in for everyone.

I’ve been in this position many times and the feeling is always the same. It feels unavoidable. Whether you’re at a large firm or a small team, that technical training gap feels inevitable. You have a talented, eager new engineer sitting next to you waiting to be effective, and you have the burden of training them in AutoCAD Civil 3D over the coming months just to get them to a baseline.

The Mentor and the New Grad

I’ve lived that feeling from both sides:

As the mentor: Caught between a 5:00 PM deadline and taking the time to properly break down a task so a new grad can succeed and do it right the first time.

As the new grad: Sitting bored, waiting for my mentor to finish a task just so I could ask a single question or let them know I was ready for more work.

I also understand this from a leadership and business perspective. I know the stress of knowing billable productivity for two people is about to drop immediately. One person is learning, and your most billable senior person is now a full-time trainer.

A Better Way to Mentor

I started asking myself: Why is the system built this way? In a culture driven by efficiency, billable hours, and rising costs, mentorship is usually the first thing that has to be sacrificed. It is not that we don't want to teach. It is that we literally can’t afford the time.

I decided to create this company and this training because I wanted to bridge that gap. I wanted to take the "software basics" off the mentor's plate so the time the team spends together can be high-value. I didn’t just build a course. I built a way for me to be a "mentor looking over the shoulder" for everyone who needs it.

Training That Works Differently

My training is built to be different:

• It’s a real person talking to you: I’m sharing my experience and pro-tips peer-to-peer.

• It’s exercise-based: They aren't just watching. They are doing real work that mimics a production environment.

• It has infinite patience: I can re-explain a complex workflow as many times as it takes for it to click.

This is about more than just software. It is about changing how we bring people into this industry. I want to handle the foundation so that Senior Engineers can focus on teaching design logic, the stuff that actually makes us engineers.

I believe this can be a tool to help start that process and end the cycle of "I'll show you tomorrow."

Check out the curriculum and the preview videos below to see the "Mentor Looking Over Your Shoulder" approach in action. Click here to see the curriculum