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Today we've prepared news about Realworld Seongsu, the hottest spot in Seongsu that has rapidly emerged as the mecca of reverse mentoring.
What is Reverse Mentoring?
Reverse mentoring is the complete opposite of traditional mentoring where seniors teach juniors. Instead, it means new employees or regular staff members become mentors to team leaders, executives, and management, providing coaching and advice.
We need to create organizations that communicate and deliver results in line with rapidly changing times.
However, we've entered an era where past approaches and solutions are completely unusable.
Traditionally, older or higher-ranking people served as mentors to teach younger, lower-ranking individuals. Reverse mentoring completely flips this concept.
Reverse mentoring is a program that organizations are rapidly adopting to create communicative organizations, overcome generational conflicts, and foster creative and innovative cultures.
The key to reverse mentoring is that MZ generation new employees decide the entire program schedule.
Places to visit, experiences to have, restaurants to eat at, and the schedule - everything is organized from the new employees' perspective and according to their preferences.
So executives participating in reverse mentoring might feel somewhat bewildered.
But if they overcome the initial awkwardness and confusion, they gain precious opportunities to directly experience things they've only encountered through news articles or TV reports.
Of course, they might discover completely unknown aspects of the world for the first time through reverse mentoring.
This is truly the real value of reverse mentoring.
From the mentee's perspective, they experience current trends and items, culture, and content that young people are passionate about, together with the actual generation that directly enjoys this culture.
These trends are delivered directly to management who have business direction and decision-making authority, not through refined reports, allowing them to be quickly reflected in business strategies.
In this way, reverse mentoring can become a venue for discovering innovative items that are much more valuable than countless reports, easier to convince with, and can be implemented quickly.
That's why corporate HR teams have recently been pursuing reverse mentoring at Realworld Seongsu, the hottest spot in Seongsu, as part of building organizational culture and internalizing core values.
Realworld Seongsu is a unique urban recreational culture venue where various companies including Samsung Electronics, LG, Hyundai Motor, Globis, and Home & Shopping are already conducting experiential education for executives, promoted employees, and new hires, along with special lectures on the latest changes and future trends.
Realworld Seongsu has an educational facility that can accommodate 30-40 trainees, so all-day education sessions are also conducted.
They often use the Realworld Seongsu education package for promotion training, new employee training, and team leader-level leadership education.
The Realworld Seongsu Suite Package is particularly popular as a one-day education program.
10 AM: Gather at Realworld Seongsu education center
10 AM-12 PM: Realworld Seongsu content experience *Johan Cat or Unlucky (1.5h)
12 PM-1:30 PM: Lunch *Brunch restaurant near Realworld Seongsu
1:30 PM-3 PM: Latest experience trend special lecture (1.5h)
3 PM-5 PM: Realworld interactive workshop Mars Escape or Predicted Hacking (2h)
Would it normally be possible to pair up with executives at the office?
Absolutely not!
But at Realworld Seongsu, you must form pairs.
Here's how pairing works for the Realworld Seongsu experience!
The week right after reverse mentoring with executives, reverse mentoring with the CEO took place here at Realworld Seongsu.
Companies run various organizational culture-building programs like CEO lunch meetings and tea times.
However, both participating new employees and management often have uncomfortable experiences in these somewhat awkward conversation settings.
What's needed in such situations is Realworld's playable content, where participants naturally take on protagonist roles in the story.
Now, form pairs and spend anywhere from 1 to 2 hours digging up clues hidden throughout Realworld Seongsu to solve missions.
You naturally communicate and put your heads together to demonstrate teamwork!
After using both body and mind intensively, the conversations over coffee and bread afterward become completely natural.
Because you now have shared topics to discuss.
And since you've already achieved common goals together during that time, you become completely open-minded.
Perhaps this is the starting point of reverse mentoring.
Today we explored the educational content at Realworld Seongsu, the mecca of reverse mentoring that has rapidly emerged as a new corporate training trend.
We'll be back with more good news next time.
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