e-Tips
11/2012 The Cross-Generational Mindset Of Young Veterans: Not Your Typical Gen Y
As a result of the long-enduring wars during the Gen Y/Millennials’ lifetime, we have a large pool of veterans who, as a group, are recognized, thanked and celebrated by our country’s population. But when they join the civilian ranks, even without having suffered severe physical or mental disabilities during their time of service, many face difficulties getting jobs. This is particularly true in the long economic turndown we are still experiencing (a jobs deficit). And employers often are puzzled as to how best to integrate veterans and use or transfer their skills.
10/2012 Passion And Work: A Gen Y Tells It Like It Is
09/2012 Next Generation Skill Sets Needed Now: Will These Skill Sets Bring Together or Divide the Generations?
08/2012 Cross-Generational Conversation With The Elephants In The Room
A while ago I was thinking about stories to tell at a conference where our panel was discussing the issues and solutions at the intersection of generations and gender. Most of the attendees were women partners in law firms or female senior in-house counsel. My perspective is not as a player in the midst of management and internal politics of the issues, but as a problem-solver seeing the bigger issues.
07/2012 Lessons For Engagement At Work Gleaned From Young Generations’ Approach To Philanthropy
A Wall Street Journal article on Silicon Valley entrepreneurs reinventing philanthropists that I blogged about got me thinking in broader terms about Gen X and Gen Y philanthropy and how their approaches translate to the workplace. For some time I have been following the philanthropic and legacy efforts of Generations X and Y and how they differ from Traditionalists and Boomer generations in general. Also I’ve been advising on conflicting approaches within families that financial advisors and planners often need to address with their clients. There are lessons from this different perspective for corporate and professional services managers working with the younger generations.
06/2012 Right from the Start, Clue Them In
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Employers and managers are looking for the secret sauce that will turn young recruits into the more traditional, driven professionals they could count on to work hard, aspire to significant responsibility, act like owners and stick around for at least 3 to 5 years, at which point they will have justified the organization’s investment in them.
05/2012 Are We Fleeing from Conversation? Is It Generational?
“The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle, her opinion piece in the New York Times Sunday Review, suggests that our connectedness to and by electronic gadgets have changed “not only what we do, but who we are.” I had the privilege of meeting and hearing Turkle speak at the Renaissance Weekend in Charleston, SC in December 2011 on this and related subjects. She claims that people are alone together. “We have gotten used to the idea of being in a tribe of one.”
04/2012 How Facilitated Dialogues within Work Teams Foster Strong, New Leadership
“Mobile, flexible, agile, engaged” are not only descriptors of our elite athletes and our smartphones, but also the workplace cultures most desired by the most sought after talent. We’re going to see more frequent leadership changes at various levels, role shifts and non-traditional reporting relationships brought on by external forces and internal impatience.
What does this mean for future leaders their training and how teams will operate?