A couple of years ago, we had the opportunity to attend a Mission Canada Summit at Humber College, in Guelph Ontario. The keynote speaker talked to us about Reverse Mentoring.
We often think of mentoring in terms of the older and experienced, teaching or showing the way to the young and inexperienced. The fact of the matter is that mentoring in todays world needs to go both ways.
In reality anyone over 40 needs to have the humility to realize the younger have alot to teach us. We need their perspective on the social and cultural nuances of the age we are living in. So when it comes to reverse mentoring I have found the best way to approach it is to 'just ask'. Be prepared to learn, be prepared to have your values, your prejudices and your world view challenged and altered. It's not about staying young, being hip and cool it's about realizing that things move faster than ever before. It doesn't take 80 years to become a dinosaur anymore.
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