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How to Manage the Generation Mix

Available On CD Course Description Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, and the Silent Generation are jostling for position as we work together through the most profound changes since the Industrial Revolution. This CD will help you understand the four generations in the workplace todayeach at different life stages, each with conflicting perspectives, expectations, and needs. Youll also learn best practices to foster understanding, leverage strengths, avoid clashes, improve productivity, and maximize teamwork, plus: Where is each generation coming from and where are they going? How can you tap into age diversity in your workplace, use it as a lens through which to see the future, and turn it into a strategic advantage? What are the strategic implications for organizations of the generational shift underway in the workforce? What can you do to prevent a talent drain among your aging workforce? How will you deal with the midlevel leadership gap? How can you manage the coming shortage of "prime workingage" employees? Why is it getting so much harder to manage people? And how can managers take a handsontransactional (HOT) approach to drive employee performance AND meet the needs of workers of all ages? What can leaders and managers do to recruit, select, train, manage, and retain the best workers of every age? Speaker Bruce Tulgan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on young people in the workplace. Bruce has addressed tens of thousands of leaders, managers, and employees in hundreds of organizations all over the world. He is the author of 14 books, including Managing Generation X , Winning the Talent Wars , HOT Management , Managing Generation Y , and Managing the Generation Mix . Recently included in a Financial Times listing of the worlds greatest management thinkers, Bruces work has been the subject of thousands of news stories and his writing has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, BusinessWeek, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and USA Today.

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