Miami Herald taps Blake-Beard on reverse mentoring
The March 8 article “Try reverse mentoring: Tapping into the font of knowledge of younger workers can be just what seasoned pros need to excel” in the Miami Herald explored this new wave of mentoring: young 20-somethings teaching new skills to older, seasoned business veterans. Mentoring now goes both ways. Simmons SOM associate professor Stacy Blake-Beard says, “Executives should think about it [reverse mentoring] as extracting information from whomever has the most knowledge.” Older workers are forced to look to someone younger when they get assigned additional responsibilities and must learn how to pull it off. “People get caught up in hierarchy and years of experience instead of who has insights to offer,” said Blake-Beard.
Read the full article, Miami Herald This article was picked up in mulitple outlets including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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