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Managing the New Workforce

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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
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Professor Karen L. Cates
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Program Content
 

Generations at Work

  • Learn the underlying factors that contribute to what 60% of executives experience as tension among the generations at work

  • Understand workplace expectations for the different generations

  • Identify solutions to enhance the productivity of Baby Boomers, Generation X and Generation Y

Managing Differently

  • Take a new look at diversity management aimed at motivating your workforce to give 100% all the time

  • Understand the fundamental brain functions that contribute to biases at work and how to overcome them

  • Engage in "courageous conversations" (TM) to learn new communication techniques and manage differently

Conflict Management and the New Workforce

  • Learn the value of process in conflict situations and follow a four-step model to address problems at work
  • Engage in a "fish bowl" workplace simulation involving an employment conflict between an older management team and a younger worker

  • Learn about your preferred approach to conflict and how to increase your tool box of strategies to address it

Multi-Cultural Teams

  • Identify the many forms multi-cultural teams can take to get the work done
  • Understand how cultural assumptions affect productivity, and how to leverage differences for success

Employment Law

  • Experience an up to date primer on employment laws applicable to the new workforce including relevant U.S. law and its international implications and counterparts

The Nanosecond Culture

  • Overview of the trials and tribulations of marketing in the nanosecond culture
  • Insights into new workers in terms of their language, personal style, facility with technology and approach to work and life
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