Reverse Mentoring - A Bottom up Approach in Mentoring System

Senior executive coaching his fresh or younger employees in an organization as a part of their mentoring system is becoming a thing of past. In fact that is no longer the case in many modern day companies. In an attempt to educate senior officials in latest technology, social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc and the recent workplace developments, many corporate are joining top executives with Gen-Y human resources in a practice known as Reverse Mentoring. This style of mentoring is taking off at a series of companies, from IT to creative business like advertising. This article throws light on the types of mentoring, learning outcomes, process of reverse mentoring and benefits of reverse mentoring.