Generational Wisdom for Mentors and Mentees' Program
Daunted by dueling generational attitudes?
Exhausted by "engaging" "entitled" young employees?
Mystified by how to manage your parents' generation?
The attitudes and behaviors of Baby Boomers, Generations X and Y often diverge or clash, each believing confidently that their generation's way is oh so "right." The results are frustration, compromised communication, and loss of opportunity and talent.
Law, accounting and other professional service firms face the dual challenges of:
- Mentoring Generation Y and the younger half of Gen X; and
- Changing Baby Boomer attitudes to be more open to new approaches.
To help navigate this largely unchartered territory I've developed a 3-module program called "Generational Wisdom for Mentors and Mentees."
The goals of this series of programs are:
- Creating awareness among Baby Boomer and Gen X mentors and their younger (or older) mentees.
- Interpreting perceived attitudes, and how to transform differences into an advantage.
- Facilitating dialogues to reach understanding, shared goals and more effective working relationships.
Note: The program goes beyond defining generational attributes to interpreting what they mean and how to address them to create more productive and rewarding mentoring relationships.
Participants will learn:
- How to communicate to get the attention you want
- How to deal with differing and similar personal styles
- Getting beyond the dangers of erroneous perceptions
- Significant paradoxes and contradictions
- How to use Third-Wave Mentoring* to fit various situations
"Generational Wisdom for Mentors and Mentees"
delivers the best results for the firm by conducting all three modules.
However, I can structure it so that you commit to one segment at a time
if that better suits your existing budget. (I want to make it easy for
you to get started soon.) The program modules are designed for:
Module #1. Mentors only
Module #2. Mentors and mentees
Module #3. Mentees only
Optional - another mentor and mentee program 6 months later
ADDED VALUE - Included are short bites of prompt response e-mail coaching for mentors throughout our working relationship. (More extensive coaching is additional.)
I have thrown my energies into the fascinating generational issues facing and often bewildering organizations today. Now your firm can benefit from my generational wisdom and gain your own.
Call me at 212-593-1549 or e-mail pwhaserot@pdcounsel.com now to structure a "Generational Wisdom for Mentors and Mentees" program that works for your firm.
P.S.
Why do you need to do this?
The benefits of the generational wisdom the mentors and mentees will get
from the program are likely to translate into interactions that lead to
positive change in the firm - increased productivity, retention, flexibility
and better business development results.
*What's Third-Wave mentoring?
- First-Wave Mentoring is the mentoring that historically had developed naturally in working relationships when seniors took the time to bring along juniors.
- Second-Wave Mentoring has been developed as formal programs to attempt to replace the organic mentoring of the past.
- Third-Wave Mentoring incorporates mentoring circles, social networking, and the group mentoring with individual attention that appeals to Generation Y/Millennials.
tel: 212 593-1549
fax: 212 980-7940
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