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Presentation Descriptions: Managing and Motivating a Multiple Generation Workforce One of the most important and prevalent factors affecting the workplace is the diversity of age of workers--from new young workers to baby boomers to individuals on the verge of retirement. In an interesting--and challenging--twist on the multi-generational workforce, you now have the potential of having four generations in your workforce, with each generation having its own expectations, habits, work styles, and beliefs. This presentation delves into ideas and innovations to handle the attitudes, meld the differences, and mold the generations into a cohesive and productive team. Speaking points include:
Creating a workplace of creativity and Innovation: Bringing the Best out in Generation Y Many young professionals exit the academic world lacking the skills necessary for marketplace. They enter the marketplace with high expectations of both themselves and their employers with no clear understanding of how to reach such expectations. As a result, many young professionals are job hopping and companies are left spending excessively on training new employees. As employers, you have to be extraordinary agile to keep up with today's constantly changing competitive environment. The best way to ensure lasting success is to make sure that everyone in your company is encouraged and rewarded for thinking and behaving creatively. This workshop explores strategies and ideas to inspire and motivate generation Y in the workplace. Speaking points include:
Engaging the Millennial Learner: Strategies for Inspiring and Motivating Today’s Learners Gen Y (aka Millennials) students not only provide a challenge to traditional education learning and teaching, but also provide a rich context for examining new approaches to quality learning. Recent research suggests that this generation’s experiences of schooling are enriched by teaching strategies that have favoured close mentorship relationships, online learning tools and experiential learning. In this workshop discover strategies to increase millennial students' engagement with their school communities and explore their learning needs, allowing educators and administrators to develop its current learning and teaching practices in light of the realities of today’s young learner. Speaking points include:
The Generations and Succession As the Baby Boomers are positioned to move on, will they participate in a smooth transition? Will the next generation be ready? Will the significant, strong relationships survive? Succession planning is good for companies, because it creates a proven leadership model, preserves institutional memories, smoothes business continuity and builds staff morale. Most people think that succession planning is a top down activity involving management and seasoned professionals. This presentation suggests that it is better to involve the younger generations as well so that they can help create a vision for what the organization aspires to and what it is really looking for in long-term leadership. Speaking points include:
Developing a Culture of Strategic Mentorship: How to Find and Be a Mentor While many corporations seek leadership improvement and most rate coaching and mentoring as important, a recent study of more than 300 organizations revealed that only 50 percent actually have such programs in place. This presentation looks at why mentorship is important to the success of any organization, guiding participants with the resources and networks with which they may be able to identify both mentors and protégés in order to better themselves within the profession. Speaking points include:
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