Build a two-way mentoring agreement
Draft a reverse-mentoring agreement with topic, boundaries, and mutual value.
The mentoring pair has goodwill but no topic, boundary, or mutual benefit. Reverse mentoring contract: topic, boundary, exchange, cadence Before: "Teach me what young employees want." That asks one person to represent a generation and gives them no clear benefit. Before After After: both leave with a learning agenda and one workflow experiment to test. Topic Define two work topics: onboarding friction and design-tool collaboration. Specific topics keep the conversation useful and reduce identity labor. Boundary State that the junior mentor speaks from experience, not for an entire generation. Boundaries make candor safer across power distance. Exchange Name what the…
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