What is Reverse Mentoring?
Reverse mentoring is where someone who is typically less experienced or more junior, but has more experience and knowledgeable in certain areas (such as technology, challenges facing minority groups, or industry trends) mentors someone more senior in these areas.
Reverse mentoring is used by organizations, globally, as a way to ensure more junior individuals are able to share their knowledge, experience and skills with senior-leaders and to help organizations to truly understand what is happening at every level of a business.
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Weather traditional mentoring, group mentoring or reverse mentoring, PushFar's mentoring software can help.
1. Mentoring Diagnostics
We'll carry out a mentoring diagnostics session with your team, to identify where you're at with mentoring, your goals and objectives for mentoring programmes.
2. Mentor Matching
PushFar's mentoring software can then facilitate mentor matching in a wide-variety of ways. Let individuals find their own reverse mentor or pair them yourself.
3. Manage Mentoring
Your mentors and mentees can manage their mentoring and reverse mentoring relationships, set goals, schedule meetings and stay engaged with our website and mobile app.
4. Mentor Reporting
Understand what is really happening in your mentoring and reverse mentoring programmes. Our mentor reporting gives you the insights into matches, engagement and goals.
Reverse Mentoring Software
PushFar's mentoring software can support both traditional mentoring programmes and schemes, and reverse mentoring. Our platform is web-based and we have both an iOS and Android mobile application included too. Not only do we provide world-leading and best-in-class mentoring technology but we also provide you with customer success managers, a wide-range of mentoring resources, 24-part video series on mentoring best practice and can offer additional mentoring training too.
The Benefits to Reverse Mentoring
For those already in the know about mentoring, you will know that it is the sharing of knowledge, skills, and experience from one person to another. Reverse mentoring is not very different in a lot of respects. Reverse mentoring is defined as one individual typically considered less experienced, more junior or younger, sharing knowledge, experience and skills in a specific area where they are more knowledgeable, with someone more senior, older or typically more experienced.
Examples of reverse mentoring could include a student or recent graduate, mentoring a senior director in their late 50’s or early 60’s about technological trends seen by the younger generation. Intergenerational learning through reverse mentoring can be incredibly powerful.
Reverse Mentoring for Inclusion
Another common use of reverse mentoring is for effective education around challenges that may face minority groups and can help to improve diversity and inclusion cultures in an organisation. Here, a reverse mentor may be a member of an inclusion group, such as a BAME or LGBTQ+ network, who can educate someone else in the organisation about the challenges they face that others may not be aware of or truly understand.
Examples here could include prejudices they face, restrictions with international travel and business abroad or historical significances to cultures. Reverse mentoring is, again, really powerful here as a channel that lots of businesses and organisations, as well as schools, colleges and universities should consider tapping into, for improved communication and a broader sense of inclusivity.
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Did you know? It's not just our incredible mentoring platform that we offer. PushFar can help you with all things mentoring and coaching - from mentoring training and workshops, through to mentoring guidelines, video tutorials and much more. We live and breathe mentoring.
