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Employee Brand Promises from a Generational Perspective

Employee Brand Promises: What’s the Point? Most organizations have a customer or stakeholder brand promise. This is the promise you make externally regarding what experience customers or stakeholders will have when interacting with your organization. It requires a lot of … Continue reading →

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Navigating the Business Environment & the Four Generations at Work

Making the Transition from School to Work Is this your last semester of college or university? Are you graduating in a few months and about to head out into the workforce? Congratulations! This is an exciting time. However, it can … Continue reading →

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Designing an Effective Mentoring Program for your Organization

Mentoring or ‘Tormentoring’? It’s all in the program design! Mentoring can be an invaluable mechanism to help colleagues learn about an organization’s formal practices and culture as well as a way to transfer knowledge and help build professional skills. However, … Continue reading →

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Retaining Your Top Talent from Across the Generations

So You’ve Got Them: Now What? Retaining Your Multigenerational Workforce Organizations aren’t going to keep people forever. In many cases, long-term corporate loyalty is virtually dead. However, this doesn’t mean that employee retention strategies are pointless. The goal of employee … Continue reading →

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Passing the Knowledge Baton from One Generation to the Next

Passing the Knowledge Baton from One Generation to the Next Four generations (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Gen Ys) are working side-by-side in the workplace. While this can be advantageous for a number of reasons, it can also lead … Continue reading →

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Inspiring creativity and innovation in all generations

Inspiring creativity and innovation in Gen Y, Gen X, Baby Boomers & Traditionalists Creativity in business is a key to developing new processes, establishing strategies and using different models to achieve corporate goals. Creativity allows you to solve business issues … Continue reading →

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Job Sharing & Flex-Places: Alternative Work Schedules for All Generations

Alternative Work Schedules Is the traditional 9 to 5, 40-hour work week extinct? Not exactly, but – whether it’s requested by employees, instituted by organizations, or simply evolving out of technological connectedness – alternative work schedules are on the rise … Continue reading →

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Three Reasons to Care About Your Employees in Tough Economic Times

Many employees have experienced several economic downturns in their careers. During downturns, it is as important as ever to focus on your people. There are several reasons why: Employees will have to do more with less As your organization reacts … Continue reading →

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Workspaces for Different Generations

How Workspaces Matter: A Generational Perspective Why does the VP get a door? Why don’t I get a laptop? Why can’t we meet at the coffee shop when the meeting rooms are always booked? You’ve probably heard questions like these … Continue reading →

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Why Gen Ys Make Great Mentors

Role Reversal: Gen Ys as Mentors For many leaders and colleagues, it is a foreign concept that more senior people can learn something from someone more junior. However, most Gen Ys have grown up in an online world where it … Continue reading →

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