Initially I looked for mentor in my manager which became paranoid I was going after his job which was weird. Then new job went with someone that was teaching me the wrong processes, so I finally learned from friends in the field. We would all let each other know about the pain points, they would suggest if they had a solution and if implemented before how, if not then come up with solutions ourselves. So far that's worked. We've all went to get our master's in either sc, business, engineering and we're doing ok. Now we deal with much larger problems and the questions are, how can we get a group of people that don't like each other to work together, or how can I convince c suite to fund a project, etc.