Reverse Mentoring
My son does it for me. Some executive board directors ask their new graduate intakes to do it. What am I referring to? Let me explain. Traditional mentoring involves someone young, new to the business and inexperienced at their role linking in with a wise old owl. Someone who’s been around the block, worn the tee shirt and has ironed it a few times too. Old helps the new. Reverse mentoring works in the opposite way. The old wise owl looks upon the young person as their mentor. Their mentor…