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◦	AmerisourceBergen Pharmaceutical Apprentice
◦	Beyond Creativity - Sales Team
◦	Brampton Brick Survivor Change Management
◦	Cdn Forces Base Career Workshop
◦	CSTD HR Conference
◦	Construction Safety Assn Survivor Workshop
◦	Empire Financial Coaching Workshop
◦	Farm Credit Canada Career Workshop
◦	Foresters Coaching Workshop
◦	Girl Guides Survivor Change Management
◦	Govt. Saskatchewan Leadership Team
◦	Influence Skills Public Seminar Vancouver
◦	IS Coaching for Technology Leaders
◦	Ontario Power Generation Survivor & Apprentice
◦	Queen's University Faculty Retreat Change
◦	Scarborough Hospital HR Retreat
◦	TD Canada Trust Survivor Workshop
◦	Toshiba Sales Conference Change Mgmt

Leading Cross-Generational Teams

◦	Leading Generation Y
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◦	Leading Silent Generation

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◦	Career Planning Workshop
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Leading Change

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◦	Abercrombie & Fitch Apprentice
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◦	AstraZeneca Toronto Amazing Race
◦	CIBC Toronto Amazing Race
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◦	Cisco Survivor Niagara Falls
◦	De La Salle High School
◦	Johnson & Johnson Amazing Race
◦	OHA Amazing Race Toronto
◦	SHH Apprentice in the Park Toronto
◦	State Farm Apprentice - Saratoga Springs, New York
◦	Synovate Amazing Race Toronto
◦	United Fresh Change Management Las Vegas

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◦	Communication Courses
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◦	Card Deck Tool
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◦	Values Portfolio Tool
◦	CINEMA Tool
◦	Network Navigator Tool
◦	Career Path Tool
◦	Talent Retention Handbooks

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◦	New Generations ... New Values
◦	What's Good for Business ...
◦	Same As It Never Was
◦	The International Playing Field
◦	Embrace Change & Watch Your Career Grow
◦	Today’s Employees Have No Loyalty
◦	Employees Are Not Easily Satisfied With Yesterday’s Motivators
◦	How Do You Spell Success?
◦	The New Physics of the Workplace
◦	Cross-Generational Workers
◦	Cookie-cutter People Doing Dull Jobs
◦	My Pay Makes No Sense
◦	Workaholics
◦	No One Cares About My Career
◦	Performance Reviews Are Ultimatum & Ambush
◦	Management Withholds Information
◦	Beyond Traditional Compensation

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Toronto-NYC-Vancouver-Minneapolis-USA-Canada talent retention team building

at no time in

our history

have so many

generations

been asked to

work together,

shoulder to shoulder,

cubicle by cubicle ...

Managing Diverse Generations @ Work

Key Objectives

Out-Think: identify generational definitions and team building demographics without reinforcing negative stereotypes
Out-Perform: bridge the team building gap between generations
Out-of-the-Box: learn ways to make cross-generational diversity work for, not against, your talent retention efforts

The once-linear nature of power at work, from older to younger, has been disrupted by changes in life expectancy and health, as well as changes in lifestyle and technology. You need out-of-the-box team building solutions to face the uncharted talent retention leadership challenges ahead.

During change, destabilized team members resort to self-protective personal agendas. These agendas are guaranteed to conflict, now that generational team building dynamics are part of the talent retention mix.

What we should be doing today is celebrating our generational differences. Each group brings a unique perspective that can be a powerful team building driver for talent retention. Younger workers bring fresh insights and boundless energy. Older workers bring the gifts of corporate memory and experience. Organizations that can find team building bridges between these generational groups will be positioned to exceed both productivity and customer expectations.

And speaking of customers ... here is a "not-done-to-death" idea for expanding customer satisfaction (both internal and external) . There are unlimited applications for this new team building competency, such as resolving customer complaints, customer presentations, customer recovery, customer communications.

During change, high talent is most at risk. They have more options. When the pressure reaches the red zone, count on them bailing first ... into either Quit-&-Leave or Quit-&-Stay™. Cross-generational Quit-&-Stayers create gargantuan power and turf struggles, which drives team building and productivity into the ditch. And seriously jeopardizes talent retention and customer service.

Your key people will be the foundation of your team building and reconstruction effort. Start re-recruiting them fast.

Every time a key player withdraws into Quit-&-Leave or Quit-&-Stay™, a chunk of your talent retention competitive advantage vanishes with them.

At no time in our history have so many and such different generations with such diversity been asked to work shoulder to shoulder, side by side, cubicle by cubicle.

Understanding generational differences is critical to making them work for, not against, your organization. It is essential to creating harmony, mutual respect, and joint effort in a relentlessly changing world of work. Without this common understanding and acceptance of our differences, today’s rapid pace of personal and organizational change too often fosters suspicion, mistrust, isolation, and debilitating stress.

We are all individuals. There are countless ways we differ in background, personality, values, preferences, and style. To make judgments about these differences (i.e., who is better), is illogical and meaningless. However, exploring generational diversity can help explain - and bridge - the sometimes-baffling differences behind our unspoken assumptions and at-odds attitudes.

World events make a lasting impression on generational groups and shape us in unique ways. This does not automatically make other generations broken, wrong, stupid, lazy, or something for us to fix. Instead, look at each individual as a perfect product that accurately portrays the world that they have seen.

People born near the ends and beginnings of generations will likely show some evidence of both generations that they straddle. Here are some "Generational Snapshots" that suggest areas of diversity:

Generation Y

Generation X

Baby Boomer Generation

The Silent or Veteran Generation

Caution: Be careful to avoid reinforcing negative stereotypes.

Generational differences are a start, not an end to understanding

This program is a powerful addition to a talent retention conference or team building retreat agenda when you need to deliver fun, as well as pragmatic and thought-provoking outcomes.

There are indoor/outdoor team building options for The Amazing Race, The Apprentice and Survivor formats, loosely based on the reality TV programs. These flexible team building sessions deliver practical outcomes driven by your talent retention goals and objectives. Results can be debriefed for either a quick or an in-depth analysis of the group's teamwork successes and challenges. Educational components can be included to provide solid bottom line take-away benefits, such as recruitment and interviewing skills, performance, management, conflict resolution, employee motivation, coaching, diversity, delegation. We can offer a full "start to finish" professional event planning service as an option for retreats & off-site meetings; or, you can arrange your own facilities and venue