Reverse Mentoring

Reverse Mentoring by Eric Leist

May 7, 2010, 7:02 am
Filed under: 4th Floor Digital

We’re excited about the possibilities reverse mentoring brings. In today’s terms, reverse mentoring means the practice of pairing digital natives with members of older generations who are still wrestling with some of the quick-moving technology in our world. That’s what we’re all about.

Here’s Alexa Scordato, co-founder of DartBoston, in her 2009 TEDx talk about her experience as a reverse mentor.

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[...] Reverse mentoring changes the dynamic of the traditional mentor/mentee relationship by having the less experienced newbie mentor a more senior executive. This is particularly effective in teaching older employees how to use social networking tools, as global businesses such as Unilever have discovered. [...]

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