Understanding & Leveraging Workplace Generational Diversity

Thursday, October 20, 2022

 

Gentelligence ® : Understanding & Leveraging Generational Diversity in the Workplace

 

Featured in Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, NBC News, and more, Megan Gerhardt, Ph.D. developed the Gentelligence ® concept to help organizations change the way they approach generational differences.

 

Mind the gap! We now have five generations in the workplace, and many leaders view this dynamic as a frustration and a challenge. Learn how the strategies of Gentelligence ® can help your organization leverage generational diversity as an opportunity and a competitive advantage instead.

 

We will discuss:

● How to push beyond lazy stereotypes to understand generational and age differences as a valuable form of diversity.

● The barriers that often prevent organizations (and individuals) from intergenerational collaboration.

● The 4 key practices of Gentelligence and ways to apply them to workplace challenges.

 

The Secrets of Gentelligent ® Teams

Left to their own devices, multi-generational teams often struggle with conflict, tension, and miscommunication. To tap into the diverse knowledge, expertise, and experiences such teams possess, we need proactive strategies and tools. In this session, you’ll learn how to build the Gentelligence ® Team Trifecta (Support, Structure, and Significance) that is essential for a generationally-diverse team to thrive.

 

Gentelligent ® People Strategies

Our approach to managing and leading people is shifting under our feet. Where they will work? Why they will work? When they will work? Who will our talent be in the future of work? In this session, we will explore these questions through a Gentelligence ® lens, broadening our perspectives of how we can tap into the benefits of generational diversity to create more engaged employees. We will also explore the challenges and opportunities of leading those both older and younger than ourselves.

Guest Speaker

Megan W. Gerhardt, Ph.D., is a Professor of Management and Leadership at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University, where she also serves as Director of Leadership Development for the Farmer School and the Robert D. Johnson Co-Director of the Isaac & Oxley Center for Business Leadership. Megan has published widely on generational differences in the workplace and is author of the book Gentelligence: A Revolutionary Approach to Leading an Intergenerational Workforce. Her Gentelligence work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, NBCNews.com, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, MarketWatch, The Houston Chronicle, and Inc. Magazine, among others. In 2017, her TEDx talk “Why I Love Millennials...and You Should, Too” was released. Dr. Gerhardt’s work (www.profgerhardt.com) focuses on leveraging differences to achieve impact and extraordinary levels of performance.

 

 

The opinions expressed during the Learning Café are solely those of the guest speaker and are not the view of the Early Care & Learning Council. 

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