Blog: Reverse mentoring – the experiment that got me thinking
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Sharon Bishop, CEO at Close Brothers Premium Finance, discusses the lessons that leaders can learn from their staff.
This January, I decided to have a go at reverse mentoring – a concept which helps businesses mine insights from employees who are in more junior roles.
Many successful companies have used reverse mentoring to enable their leaders to understand the mindsets of diverse groups within their business, as well as to gather a different set of views on what their development needs might be as leaders.
Mentor
My mentor, Joanna, has been with Close Brothers Premium Finance (CBPF) for over a year. She
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