Mentoring has been an inalienable ingredient of the corporate parliaments, wherein the elderly, learned, and experienced top brass of the company coach the budding executives. But with the changing times and sprouting necessities, the corporate houses are encouraging the practice of reverse mentoring, which witnesses the role reversal in the process of mentoring. The articles provide a detailed understanding of the concept.

When Odysseus (popularly known as Ulysses) set out on those famous wanderings of his (that we now call an "odyssey" and it led him to the trojan wars), he entrusted the care of his son, Telemachus, to a person named Mentor. He was Ulysses' wise and trusted counselor. He was also a tutor to his son. The same Mentors name (with a lower case m) has been passed into our dictionary for a wise and trusted counselor and teacher.

The term mentor was typically used by the person who receives the counsel or teaching to refer to the person who is providing it. The term mentor is illustrated in a situation wherein an older, influential person took a younger, promising person under his/her guidance for the purpose of advancing the younger person's career. The older person is then a mentor to the younger one. And the younger one, of course, would be known to us as the protégé of the older person, just as Telemachus was Mentor's protégé.

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