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SHRM 2017 Annual Conference & Exposition
This session will focus on key challenges facing HR leaders and zero in on strategies to turn the generational shift into a strategic advantage.
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Generational diversity issues in the workplace have never been more pressing, nor have they been more complex. The last of the pre-Baby Boomers are waning. The Boomers are now the grey haired elders, will steadily exit the workforce taking with them decades of wisdom, knowledge and expertise. You will learn about dozens of immediately actionable best practices in a step-by-step guide through the four generations working side by side in today's workplace. This session will help you: 

  • Use generational diversity as a lens through which to understand the changing workplace and workforce, and the future.
  • Appreciate the attitudes and behaviors of those of other generations.
  • Make adjustments in attitude and behavior in order to communicate and work more effectively with those of other generations.
  • Focus on common ground and build mutually supportive relationships with individuals of all generations.
  • Evaluate the generation mix in your team and your organization and plan for the human capital management issues facing you and your organization as a result of generational diversity: Will you face a talent drain among your aging workforce? What can you do to help implement a flexible retention program to stem the tide? How can you contribute to the knowledge transfer process? What are you doing to improve recruiting, training, development, supervision, self-management, rewards, and retention among the best workers of every generation?
 
Date(s) & Time(s): 
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 - 2:15pm to 3:30pm
Presenter: 
Bruce Tulgan
founder and chairman
RainmakerThinking, Inc.
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Bruce Tulgan is the founder of RainmakerThinking, Inc., a research, training, and consulting firm in New Haven, Connecticut. He is internationally recognized as one of the foremost experts on leadership and performance management in the workplace.
 
Bruce is the author or co-author of 20 books, including his best-selling It’s Okay to Be the Boss, the classic Managing Generation X, his popular Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage the Millennials, and The 27 Challenges Managers Face: Step-by-step Solutions to (Nearly) All of Your Management Problems. His most recent book is Bridging the Soft Skills Gap: How to Teach the Missing Basics to Today’s Young Talent. Bruce’s work has been the subject of thousands of news stories around the world and he has written for The New York Times, USA Today, Training Magazine, HR Magazine, and The Harvard Business Review. Bruce also lectures regularly at The Yale School of Management and
other business schools. Bruce holds a sixth degree black belt in Uechi-Ryu Karate, making him a Master in that style. His wife Debby Applegate won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for her book The Most Famous Man in America, about the 19th century minister Henry Ward Beecher.
 
SESSIONS:
Location: 
343-345
Amount of Credit: 
1.25
Credit Type: 
•SHRM PDCs
Session Type: 
Concurrent Session
Competency: 
Relationship Management
HR Expertise
Intended Audience: 
Senior-Level
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