Toll free: +1-800-447-9407 support@gcplearning.com Cart 0 items
Shira Harrington
Instructor Shira Harrington
Product Id 601618
Duration 60 Minutes  
Version Recorded
Original Price $295
Special Offer Price $10
Refund Policy
Access recorded version only for one participant; unlimited viewing for 6 months

Managing and Motivating the Next Generation

Overview:

The newest entrants to the workforce over the last 10 years, the Millennials (aka Generation Y) have made a profound impact on the way organizations strategize about employee engagement. Challenging our thinking around traditional concepts of loyalty, work ethic, communication, technology, and work-life balance, clearly the tools for engaging this next generation reside in a toolkit far different than the previous two generations.

How is your organization adapting to the high expectations of this generation? Are you resisting or flexing? Do you understand the implications for workforce planning? How are 'old' cultural and procedural mindsets affecting your ability to motivate and retain this critical mass of employees?

Join us for a robust discussion surrounding the issues that will continue to impact your organization as Baby Boomers retire, Gen-Xers assume leadership roles and Millennials make an indelible mark on the workplace of the future: all 80 million of them.

Why should you attend: As the oldest of the 80 million Baby Boomers begin to retire, who is leading the charge behind them? Generation X at only 46 million, is not populous enough to backfill vacant leadership positions. So employers are turning to the next generation of Millennials (born after 1980) to rise to the occasion. The challenge is that this generation thinks and behaves very different from their older counterparts, leaving vast gaps in perceptions around work ethic, loyalty, communication
style, use of technology and many other cultural "norms" of the past.

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • Identify workplace cultural norms for the four generations: Veterans, Baby Boomers, Generation X and Millennials
  • Understand the need for workforce planning based on demographics, attrition and Boomer retirements
  • Gain practical insights into engaging the Millennial generation with particular emphasis on communication, work-life balance, technology and performance management issues

Who Will Benefit:
  • HR Professionals
  • Hiring Managers
  • Department Managers
  • Department Heads
  • Supervisors

Speaker Profile
Shira Harrington Since 1994, Shira Harrington has specialized in helping employers and job seekers discover their mutual purpose. With a focus on executive recruiting, interview training and career consulting, Shira provides the bridge to secure the optimal long-term match between both sides.

Shira also is a consultant and presenter on managing the multigenerational workforce. As a subject matter expert, she brings her extensive research and her unique, ‘real world’ perspective of the world at work to bridge the perceived gaps between the generations and prepare executives for the coming labor shortage. She has been published in the monthly magazine of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, quoted in Federal Computer Weekly, profiled in the Washington Business Journal (June 1, 2007), interviewed in Bottom Line Briefing (January 2009) and is a contributing editor to a book, Motivating the Millennial Knowledge Worker (Spring 2009).

Shira plays an active role in the Washington, DC metropolitan human resources and association communities. She is past President of the HR Leadership Forum; she was the Vice President of Programs for the Human Resources Association of the National Capital Area; and she runs a monthly brown bag lunch for HR professionals in the nonprofit and association sectors. She is also an active volunteer leader in ASAE (American Society for Association Executives) and founded an executive peer roundtable entitled SAFE (Small Association Forum for Executives) which provides a forum for best practice sharing among small staff association executives.

Shira is a regular speaker at local job support groups including Beltway Job Search Partners, MBC Career Network Ministry, Jewish Social Service Agency and 40-Plus of Greater Washington. Shira earned a Masters degree in Public Relations with a focus on employee communications from the University of Maryland at College Park.

Sign Up for Our Newsletter