Reverse mentoring role | Description of role | Benefits experienced within our relationship |
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Auditor | Benchmarking mentee's knowledge and practices against trust policies and procedures | Tested the mentee's knowledge of equality, diversity and inclusion eg trust policies Explored compliance eg with trust targets for board-level diversity |
Critical friend | Supporting the mentee by asking constructive questions and providing feedback tactfully and diplomatically | Mentee reached positive conclusions without feeling undermined or belittled |
Researcher | Used research techniques for assessing our subject, such as a semistructured interview, phenomenological and ethnographical approaches | Helped extract rich information about the subject |