>Stopped all 1:1’s and mentorship sessions to avoid top down interactions
What?
Whaaat?
I am glad this is the first thing they immediately brought back, and while I am glad someone is doing some experimenting, this seems a bit obviously wrong headed.
Mentorship is the main way I see experience and knowledge are communicated (in terms of learning, besides making a LOT of hard mistakes yourself) unless you have the most amazing ways of teaching people already 100% completed and available for them to pick up.
To eschew mentorship almost seems to eschew the basics of how humans work!
A few things that I realize now, we should have put into the post for full context:
> We replaced 1:1's with managers with peer 1:1's between people in equal positions. So it was true peer to peer mentoring on the same hierarchical level. This however didn't fulfill the need that people really want to hear from someone who might have more experience than them, or who can guide them onto the next step.
That makes a LOT more sense!
Enjoyed the article, thanks, and totally understand you not putting each and every detail in the original piece, its not an exhaustive study.
What? Whaaat? I am glad this is the first thing they immediately brought back, and while I am glad someone is doing some experimenting, this seems a bit obviously wrong headed.
Mentorship is the main way I see experience and knowledge are communicated (in terms of learning, besides making a LOT of hard mistakes yourself) unless you have the most amazing ways of teaching people already 100% completed and available for them to pick up.
To eschew mentorship almost seems to eschew the basics of how humans work!