It’s common to hear complaints about GenYs, but the Millennial Generation has its own frustrations. There are far too many to list here, but a common one is that they are full of innovative ideas which are ignored. Every cohort has new ideas, but this one thinks in a dramatically different way from the generations [...]
Archive | April, 2008
Branding your organization, your learning mission and yourself
1 How does your organization tell its story (brand) in an age of web transparency? 2 How does your learning and development team tell the story of your services and/or products? 3 Does your organization buy stories over quality? 4 Do you know (and monitor) your personal brand? 1 How does your organization tell its [...]
Trust and understanding between collective and individualist cultures
Many organizations are staffed by a mix of people from individualist cultures (e.g. USA, Canada, Western European cultures) and collectivist cultures (e.g. Latino, Asian, African cultures). Building trust and understanding between these diverse groups is not easy, either for the team members concerned, or for managers and learning specialists who facilitate the process. Everyone has [...]
Retaining valuable “women who don’t ask”
Research shows that even young, highly-educated and assertive women do not ask for what they want, or know how to maneuver their way through systems that penalize them for asking. The cost, to both women and organizations, is high. Research proves that when women do ask for what they want, they do not do so [...]
Building organization-wide business thinking
1 Everyone needs to maintain or increase organizational profit in a time of economic slowdown 2 One proven route to profitability: build the financial and business intelligence in all your employees In a time of economic weakness, it’s especially important to make sure that all your key people are financially intelligent. And not only key [...]
GenX: Graduates of the CubeWar Training Camps.
These days, Baby Boomer managers often complain about their GenY employees (“kids these days…”) But maybe Boomers should worry less about GenY (described by Marcus Buckingham as the generation who got prizes for coming 8th in a race). Some Boomers still need to learn that you can’t win against GenX if you use the old-fashioned [...]
Organizations benefit from improving education in their communities
A Is our education system making you poorer, even if you are well-qualified, well paid, and don’t have children in school? B Is there a small, inexpensive action that you, and your organization, can take to change this? A How could our education system be making you poorer, even if you do not have children [...]
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