Reverse Mentoring

I spoke on Sunday at an event called the Leadership Summit: Creativity and Innovation 2008 sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, DC.  It was nicely attended, with about one hundred people who were largely senior staff at Jewish nonprofit agencies and synagogues in and around DC and a smattering of Millennials. During our conversation there were several interesting ideas and observations that I think are worth sharing and chewing on:

1.  We discussed the opportunity for younger staff people to mentor older ones on the use of social media. I call this Reverse Mentoring, and it really resonated with both the younger and older people in the audience. Of couse, Millennials ae going to have to slow it down for those Boomers to catch up! What about a monthly brown bag lunch for Millennials to demonstrate how Twitter and IM work and sign their co-workers up for those services? Read more »