{"id":16964,"date":"2023-05-16T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqorus.com\/?p=16964"},"modified":"2024-10-08T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T13:14:47","slug":"reverse-mentoring-in-companies-the-world-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqorus.com\/en\/reverse-mentoring-in-companies-the-world-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Reverse mentoring in companies: “The world upside down”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you know reverse mentoring? This training method, based on the exchange of skills between employees of different generations… In this article, we’ll explore the benefits of reverse mentoring and give you an overview of current practices.<\/span>.
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“The World Inside Out”. How many times have we heard this interjection without necessarily associating any meaning or answer behind this fatalistic statement? While it can enliven Sunday lunches in the private circle on various themes, this observation of the “world upside down” is increasingly anchored around the “digital revolution”, identified as a clash of values between the old and new worlds.<\/p>\n

It is clear that the emergence of increasing digitalization of our tools and operating methods has a direct impact on the professional world. A <\/span>study carried out by the Institute for the Future and Dell technologies<\/a><\/a><\/strong> <\/span>shows that 85% of jobs in 2030 have not yet been invented.
\nAs for skills, they are proving to be increasingly obsolete, as they are no longer in line with new business standards.
In other words, the emergence of new businesses is leading to the rapid evolution of new skills. It is therefore up to companies to ensure that their staff’s skills are upgraded or retrained in the years to come.<\/p>\n

So, rather than asking “ <\/span>Why is digital devouring the world?<\/em> <\/span>” as the Wall Street Journal headlined in 2011, if we were more interested in knowing “ <\/span>how can we support these changes?<\/em> <\/span>“. Traditional training alone will not be enough to keep up with this movement and we need to invent other ways of learning. In this respect, reverse mentoring, the most successful expression of the <\/span>social learning<\/a><\/strong>appears to be one possible answer.<\/p>\n

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What is reverse mentoring?<\/h2>\n

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In 1999, the concept of the “ <\/span>reverse mentoring<\/strong> <\/span>“(in French <\/span>reverse mentoring<\/strong> <\/span>“) was born within the American conglomerate General Electric. Its chairman, Jack Welch, obliged his 500 top managers to choose “mentors”, but with one instruction: these mentors must be chosen from among the youngest employees of the company. The objective: to help managers develop their technological skills, inspired by the new generations.<\/p>\n

Unlike traditional mentoring, then, the <\/span>reverse mentoring<\/strong> <\/span>consists in reversing the system by placing the experienced manager in the position of apprentice, and the recently-arrived junior in the position of coach. The starting point is simple: each party has a gap in their knowledge base (in the broad sense) that can be filled by the strengths of the other.<\/p>\n

<\/span>reverse mentoring <\/span><\/strong>is thus a system of reciprocal learning, giving rise to a win-win relationship:<\/p>\n