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Managing the New Workforce

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Upcoming Sessions
  November 9-12, 2008
$ 5,300
   
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
Enhance your knowledge about the forces that shape and motivate the New Workforce
Develop frameworks and language for discussing the real issues you face at work
Increase your ability to identify New Workforce challenges and act on them before they become a drain on productivity
Build your leadership toolbox and bring real techniques and strategies back to the workplace for immediate implementation
Karen Cates© Nathan Mandell
Professor Karen L. Cates
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Maximize the productivity and creativity of your workforce by unleashing the energy of your diverse employee base. Grasp the differences that can result in lost potential and learn how to leverage them to lead a motivated team. Generational, ethnic, national, and religious diversity among employees continues to increase globally. Higher retirement rates, government regulations, and a loud call for flexibility stretch the leader's ability to meet productivity goals. With demographic shifts and a looming shortage of real talent in the work place come new demands on leaders who must be prepared to find, develop, and retain the new workforce.

Classroom delivery techniques will range from interactive lectures to real-world cases and simulation exercises, all designed to enhance the leader's toolbox of strategies for managing a diverse workforce for competitive advantage.

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Program Content

Generations at Work

Managing Differently

Conflict Management and the New Workforce

Multi-Cultural Teams

Employment Law

The Nanosecond Culture

 

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Format
Discussion, case analysis, and group exercises facilitate participation in the seminar. In the evenings, participants work in study groups to prepare exercises and projects for class discussion.

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