How to succeed with reverse mentoring: 7 steps

Source – enterprisersproject.com You’ve wrapped your head around a reverse mentoring program and see plenty of upside for your IT team. It sounds like a good idea, one that aligns with your vision and goals. But you’re a technologist first, not an organizational behavior expert or HR pro. How do you actually start and run a reverse mentoring program? Let’s start with the basics: There’s no single, uniform approach. If someone tells you there is, you should probably ignore them. By any name, a mentoring or

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Needed now and for the foreseeable future: Five hot IT skills

Source – techtarget.com I lived through the dot-com bubble and collapse. I mention this because in some ways the current technology startup and IT salary craziness seem eerily similar to that — but with one critical difference. Back in the dot-com days the hysteria over internet-based startups fueled the creation of companies whose only compelling business model was to do something — anything — online. The big difference between then and now is that organizations are using technology to do more

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