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The Benefits of Reverse Mentoring

Thursday, April 25, 2024

Reverse mentoring programs, where younger employees are paired up with more senior officials, may afford many interesting opportunities for both generations of employees to learn. Topics such as mobile technology, social media, and current trends are second nature to young employees, but may not come so naturally to top-level executives. While it may not seem important for a company’s CEO to have thousands of Twitter followers, it is important that a company’s higher-ups not be out of touch with the quickly changing technological world. As a result of bringing the two generations together, organizations including GE, Hewlett Packard, Ogilvy & Mather, Proctor & Gamble, and The Hartford have seen lower turnover rates among younger employees and a boom in understanding of new technology among older, higher-level employees. Company IT departments may leverage the trend of reverse mentoring for their advantage in order to promote IT strategies including cyber-security. Generally untapped, younger employees represent an opportunity to improve interdepartmental and intergenerational relationships at an organizational level. 

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