🤝 Reverse Mentoring, The HR Suite Death + Training Shortcut (Template) - Oct 29, 2025

On today’s agenda:

🤝 Reverse mentoring

⚡ Plan your training [template]

🧩 HR legacy suites are out

❄️ The great freeze

QUICK POLL

THE HR SPOTLIGHT

🤝 Flip the Script: The Reverse Mentoring Remix

What if the next big leadership insight came from your youngest hire? Reverse mentoring lets Gen Z guide senior leaders on tech, hybrid culture, and digital smarts—and it’s transforming workplaces.

🪶 The old playbook

The traditional “mentor down, learn up” model is due for an update. Many senior leaders admit gaps in digital fluency and hybrid-work dynamics, while Gen Z—digital natives with fresh values—crave a voice. The result? Leaders risk lagging behind, and Gen Z checks out early.

💡 How HR can spark the shift

• Pair with purpose — Match execs with Gen Z mentors skilled in tech or hybrid collaboration. Structured pairings also boost engagement.

• Provide guidelines and resources — Establish rules to ensure productivity and clear communication, and equip them with tools and resources.

• Promote mutual learning — Set goals for both sides: digital fluency for leaders, leadership exposure for juniors.

• Monitor and evaluate — Check progress, review, and finetune.

• Celebrate results — Acknowledge everyone’s efforts and achievements. Share results to inspire.

When knowledge flows both ways, everyone levels up.

⚡ From Plan to Performance: A Training Plan Template

💪 Gen Z Takes the Wellbeing Lead - HR Executive

• What’s unfolding: Younger workers—especially Gen Z—are becoming the wellness front-runners: nearly three-quarters report meaningful gains in wellbeing.

• Why it matters: This means Gen Z can be leveraged as advocates and change-agents in wellness culture. Encourage them to lead wellbeing dialogues and model behaviors that elevate the whole workforce.

• What’s unfolding: Companies are neither cutting nor adding many roles, creating a “low-hire, low-fire” employment loop where job openings drop and workers stay put.

• Why it matters: HR leaders must watch for internal stagnation—when roles don’t evolve, so don’t skills, mobility or engagement.

• What’s unfolding: Against the booming state economy, this highlights a disconnect between macro-growth and employee wellbeing.

• Why it matters: If your internal workforce feels undervalued despite external success, you risk turnover and disengagement — so embed pay-equity audits and transparent career growth paths now.

COMPLIANCE CORNER

• What’s unfolding: A new Third Circuit ruling lets employers settle wage-and-hour claims faster under the FLSA.

• HR implications: Reassess pay practices and documentation—early resolution just became a key HR advantage.

• What’s unfolding: A New Jersey court upheld an employer’s right to restrict public-employee speech made in official roles.

• HR implications: Public-sector HRs should tighten and clarify policies on workplace and social-media expression.

• What’s unfolding: A court ruled employers aren’t required to grant the specific religious accommodation employees request just because of preference.

• HR implications: Ensure your process fairly considers and documents alternatives—reasonable doesn’t mean preferred.

BREAKROOM

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