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If you are just tuning in, this week of blogs was about creating harmonious multi-generational communication, and better training. Rather then stereotyping people, it has been my experience that understanding needs and expectations of different age groups only enhances team efforts, especially in difficult times.

Ageism is something most — if not all — twenty-somethings will have to confront as we build our careers. Often, we’re the youngest people in our organizations, and every now and then we’re confronted with overt displays of ageism. How we respond is critical. My advice: Nip overt ageism in the bud.

He decides to set up an “action learning” session to solve schedule issues. By focusing on the solution rather than problems, he moved the group into thinking differently in an ageless way. The goal was to appreciate what was working with scheduling and how to make it easier and easier.

Can you REALLY teach OLD DOGS new tricks?  The answer is YES.         This piece contains the best ways to make TRAINING meaningful to all generations.    Welcome to part 2 of the series on generational factors in managing your project team. First, let’s get some facts straight according to Dept.

To keep all the information about the leadership deficit, generational differences, and solutions the sector is talking about in one place, we have created this every other Monday post. Read this post on Monday to catch up on what everyone has been talking about over the past couple of weeks.

In the wake of disputes over sexist treatment of Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Barack Obama offer, among other contrasts, a confrontation between old ideas about manhood and new--the hard-drinking, womanizing Navy flyboy turned politician and the New Age husband in equal partnership with a powerful wife.

During a recent Chronicle of Philanthropy discussion Engaging Millennials for Social Causes I asked guest Allison Fine, author of Social Citizens, the following questions: What can I share with our Millennial readers about connecting with other generations in the workplace?

To keep all the information about the leadership deficit, generational differences, and solutions the sector is talking about in one place, we have created this every other Monday post. Read this post on Monday to catch up on what everyone has been talking about over the past couple of weeks.

(Mary Jo Atkins, Midcontinent Supply, Bowie, Texas, 1945) When I was 13 we moved back to the tiny North Texas town where my mother, her mother, and three generations before that had grown up (and gone to the same school). What remained was the school, a gas station, and an occasionally-meeting Baptist church, plus houses and trailers of people who had not yet moved away.

I ran across this Chronicle of Philanthropy article, which discusses generation gap challenges in the non-profit workplace. As someone who has been the youngest person in every organization I’ve worked with, I can fully understand the challenges of balancing that gap.