Welcome to the Reverse Mentoring™ website. As you can see, our website is under construction.

Please be patient and return often to learn about practical tools and information that can make the difference in your organization’s mentoring efforts. And please let us know what will make this website a useful tool for you.

Why dedicate a website to Reverse Mentoring?

Many of you visiting this website are familiar with The Learning Café’s training programs and products. We educate managers and employees about the changing workforce and what everyone can do to retain and engage the four generations in the workplace. Our workshops and products have empowered thousands of people to bridge the generation gap at work and at home.

In the course of The Learning Café’s work with organizations about their influx of newer, confident and skilled employees, we’ve learned that the traditional one way view of mentoring limits the power and potential.

If you are new to Reverse Mentoring, it’s easily understood by comparing it to traditional mentoring. Traditional mentoring pairs a mentor – usually older and presumed to be more experienced and wiser, with a learning partner called a protégé or mentee. For many excellent reasons, we assume that the mentor is skilled and wise in the ways of the organization, and that the learning partner’s role is to soak up the wisdom and learn from an expert.

Reverse Mentoring consists of partners, but the learning relationship is presumed to be reciprocal, and the full impact of Reverse Mentoring occurs when the newer and often younger employee is the teacher and relationship leader.

Some examples of why organizations are using this high-engagement mentoring method are:

·         Infuse key leaders or employees with information about the latest technologies or latest practices in specific fields

·         Update the skills of existing employees with an infusion of the “latest and greatest”

·         Promote innovative thinking about business challenges

·         Raise awareness about ethnic, gender and generational diversity

·         Help executives and senior employees understand their younger customer base

·         Acquaint senior executives and employees with the issues related to the younger workforce and how the organization needs to flex in order to retain them.

We believe that Reverse Mentoring is a shining example of how to harness the power and potential of a four generation workforce.