Mentoring or 'Tormentoring'?
A participant at a recent conference mentioned that the mentoring program at his company had been re-named the 'tor-mentoring' program by participants. Mentoring can be an invaluable mechanism to help younger colleagues learn about an organization's formal practices, tacit culture, transfer knowledge and help build professional skills. However, unless the program is well designed, the results won't meet the objectives. Some innovative leaders and organizations have recognized that mentoring does not automatically require a more experienced (or older) employee sharing knowledge with a younger employee. While not yet in wide spread use, reverse mentoring (where younger colleagues mentor more experiences colleagues) can also be a useful practice to build productive, engaged teams. In this newsletter, we highlight considerations for a successful mentoring program.
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