Playing in the Sandbox: Effective Strategies for Managing Multi-Generational Teams
Learning Objective: Enhance techniques for successful collaboration among teams Managers are charged with meeting diverse needs to maximize value and productivity. To be a competent leader and manager, your role is to create opportunities, empower others, and leverage the specialized skills of employees. One continuing challenge is managing multi-generational teams. The complexity of communication presents two core challenges: How do we increase quality and efficiency of knowledge sharing, and how do we improve value? Collaboration and knowledge sharing practices are essential to solving problems, enhancing professional relationships, increasing productivity, and improving work quality. Building communities that continue to address knowledge sharing and collaboration systems is the key to remaining competitive. At the end of this seminar, participants will be able to: a. Explore knowledge sharing techniques to stay ahead of the competition. b. Identify new and innovative ways that organizations share knowledge and collaborate. c. Explore ways to foster communities that embrace successful collaborative exchanges. d. Examine global and multi-generational knowledge sharing opportunities and challenges.
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Playing in the Sandbox: Effective Strategies for Managing Multi-Generational Teams
- 1. PLAYING IN THE SANDBOX: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING MULTI-GENERATIONAL TEAMS COL Antoinette Gant, Moderator Louisville District Commander U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
- 2. Objectives of Today’s Session • Raise awareness to the importance of Multi-Generational Teams • Forging an understanding between members of different generations • Generating ideas to strengthen team dynamics
- 3. Let’s Meet our Panelist Petula Brown Senior Project Manager Mathematica Policy Research
- 4. Playing in the Special Team Sandbox • Clearly Define and Document Team Objective(s) • Introduce the Value of Each Team Member • Remember the Parent of the “Ugly Baby” may be on the Team • Use Ice Breakers to Create a Safe Space to Discuss Differences ‒ Preferred Methods of Communication ‒ Work Styles • Create Ground Rules That Address Generational Differences
- 5. Playing in the Department Sandbox • Recognize and Address Your own Biases ‒ Airplane Pilot Story • In a fun way, Share Biases/Discuss Stereotypes; Breakdown Barriers ‒ Play the “Would you Rather and why Game” • Conduct Team Building Exercises • Host After Hour Company Events; Recognize the Value of Bonding Outside the Work Environment
- 6. Playing in the Department Sandbox • Utilize “Cuspers” ‒ Born Within Three to Five Years of the Beginning or end of a Generation; Empathic to Both Sides • Reverse Mentoring • Point out Shared Attributes • Don’t Ignore Dysfunctions; Intervene • Educate the Team on Work Style and Communication Preferences
- 7. Generational Integration Focus Team (GIFT) • Employee Resource Group committed to fostering the understanding of the benefits of multi-generations in the workplace • Activities include: ‒ Events with fun skits and networking opportunities ‒ SME support ‒ Communication Tools • About Face: Rethink What You Think
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- 9. What’s on your mind?
- 10. THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING PLAYING IN THE SANDBOX: EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES FOR MANAGING MULTI-GENERATIONAL TEAMS