Leading Across the Ages
- Make Your Managers Smarter about
Leading Multigenerational Talent
– Today and Tomorrow
Working effectively with people of all ages is essential to one’s success in the workplace. Leading Across the Ages empowers your managers to attract, retain and develop multigenerational talent; and to acquire the necessary skills to ensure multigenerational team success. This course provides practical techniques for managers to promote a more productive, collabor- ative and innovative environment with a multigenerational workforce.
Target Audiences
Leading Across the Ages is ideal for mid-to senior managers who must motivate and develop an effective, multigenerational workforce.
Experts
Leading Across the Ages is based the rigorous research and work of author, Tamara Erickson, a foremost authority on managing the different generations in a changing workforce.
Benefits
- Workforce Engagement. Proven techniques to deal with conflict and misconceptions that arise from generational differences help your managers elicit cooperation, collaboration and loyalty.
- Increased Innovation. By understanding generational differences, your managers will gain better communication skills to motivate teams.
- Bolster Mid-Career Leaders. Leading Across the Ages demonstrates a positive investment in the value that individuals from different generations contribute to organizational goals.
- Talent Recruitment. Acquiring insights on different generational perspectives enhances your managers’ abilities to identify, develop and retain high potential people for the leadership pipeline.
- Rigorous Research. Scenarios, vignettes and interactive exercises are based on the work of acclaimed talent management expert, Tamara Erickson.
- Multiple Learning Modes. 2D gaming and simulations, video, and personal action plans engage your managers with concepts they can apply on the job.
Rich Resources Geared to Understanding Different Generations
- Leading Across the Ages takes Harvard Business Publishing’s award-winning courses to new levels of learning. Rich, multiple-media formats offer a wide breadth of video, audio, and print content. The course can be blended into corporate leadership development programs to support both self-directed and group action learning. The course can be completed in one-to-three hours
Course features include:
- Expert Insights: Guidance from Tamara Erickson, award-winning expert and speaker on managing the different generations in a changing workforce.
- Interactive Scenario: Puts the learner in workplace situations to experiment with and apply key course concepts.
- Practical Activities: Include a game that tests understanding of different generational perspectives, journal logging to track insights and progress, as well as guides and conversation starters for cascading learning throughout an organization.
- International Perspectives: Examine key characteristics of generations across the globe.
- Resources: Multiple Harvard Business Review articles and IdeaCasts offer additional opportunities to further explore expert perspectives.
- Action Plan: Guidance for identifying on-the-job application opportunities to make a measurable impact and get results.
Leading Across the Ages can be completed in two-to-three hours. The course offers gaming aspects, simulations, animation and video to provide a highly engaging and memorable learning experience. Realistic scenarios provide practice and immediate feedback; plus Discussion Guides show how to engage others in group learning activities.
Putting Insights into People to WorkBuilding a Goal-Based Leader Brand
Leading Across the Ages shows managers how to uncover and understand hidden perspectives so they can more effectively lead a multigenerational workforce. Thought-provoking concepts and self-reflection tools will help them gain enlightenment about their own personal assumptions about different generations.
Managers will learn how to:
- Leverage knowledge about generational perspectives in order to position ideas more persuasively, increase team productivity, and lead others more effectively
- Increase innovation capability via enhanced communication and collaboration skills
- Create positive group norms that drive high performance
- Contribute to the development of an engaged, loyal workforce
- Attract, retain, and engage top talent
- Invest in mid-career leaders
- Reduce workplace tension and frustration arising from generational differences
- Sharpen leadership skills, and bolster leadership pipeline
The easy-to-use contemporary design and premier content deliver convenient, first-hand learning experiences with engaging videos, interactive gaming, conversation starters, and an action plan for applying course concepts to individual situations
Proven Concepts and Guidance on Generational Dynamics
Leading Across the Ages is based on the work of author and speaker, Tamara Erickson, a renowned expert on managing generational diversity in the workplace. Ms. Erickson has mentored several Harvard Business Publishing’s offerings, including the innovative Talent Management Center.
Her outstanding credentials include:
- McKinsey Award-winning author and researcher on changing demographics, employee values, and successful organizations
- Author, Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work, and Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation
- Co-Author, Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent, plus numerous Harvard Business Review articles
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