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06/2021 The Underestimated Impact of Generational Differences on Wellness
Disconnects among professionals and executives as well as with staff based on generationally related differences are prevalent in many workplaces. This often causes stress, misinterpretations of behaviors and attitudes that hinder optimal client service and retention. Busy professionals need to integrate cross-generational connection and cross-cultural engagement seamlessly into everyday behaviors and activities rather than siloing them as projects or tasks. Here’s how.
05/2021 It’s A Great Big Experiment!
Anyone who thinks that there is clarity of choice on how we go back to work now that organizations are coming fully back to life is probably in for surprises along the journey of the next year or two. How and where we will be working is likely to be a moving target for the foreseeable future, even without any new waves of Covid-19 and its variants.
https://youcantgoogleit.com/blog/2021/its-a-great-big-experiment
04/2021 Why Is It So Hard to Talk to Strangers These Days?
With isolation and remote work during the pandemic, many individuals find they have lost of the art verbal connection. And those that enter the world of work now or move on where they don’t know their co-workers feel at a loss to make the necessary or desirable networking connections. Here’s what to do to get more comfortable and the reward.
https://youcantgoogleit.com/blog/2021/why-is-it-so-hard-to-talk-to-strangers-these-days
03/2021 The Generational Parenting Paradigm Paradox
Have you noticed the recent plethora of articles about parents, especially moms, “losing it” and self-accusing themselves of being failures? Despite institutions – government and employers – not doing what’s needed to help, at least not sufficiently, today’s cohort of moms is berating themselves, not only for not being perfect parents, but also neglecting other meaningful roles in volunteering, finding better ways to make this challenging time more meaningful, and community participation.
What’s the backstory, and what can be done to improve the situation for parents, families and employers?
https://youcantgoogleit.com/blog/2021/the-generational-parenting-paradigm-paradox
02/2021 How Age Demographics Are Determining Our Destiny
We need to prepare for four inevitable demographic/societal migrations. While the other three great migrations are greatly significant, I focus on urbanization led by young people and its implications. That trend also demonstrates the intersectionality of age and the reordering of the influence of minority groups such as the growth of Hispanic population to where it will double the Black population, and the Asian numbers will be larger than the Black population as well.
Read on for details…
https://youcantgoogleit.com/blog/2021/how-age-demographics-are-determining-our-destiny
02/2021 Does Code-Switching Affect Generational/Age Diversity too?
https://youcantgoogleit.com/blog/2021/does-code-switching-affect-generationalage-diversity-tood
01/2021 Gone Missing: Recognition of Multigenerational Voices in the Mix
Here’s why I am frustrated: Generational/age diversity, inclusion, belonging, deserves a bigger seat at the DEI decision-making table. The intersectionality of all, and I mean all diversities, including diversity of thought, needs to be recognized by both individuals and management.
12/2020 Speculating: Trends for the Future of Work
It’s the time of year for looking backward and forward for trends. Here are some probabilities and their implications to think about.
https://www.youcantgoogleit.com/blog/2020/speculating-trends-for-the-future-of-work