Generational Leadership

Being a leader in today’s workplace is more complicated than ever before. Leaders are being required to increase employee diversity, and factors such as rapidly changing technology, an uncertain economy, mergers, closings, and layoffs have made today’s workplace more challenging than ever. Leadership is not necessarily determined by one’s position on an organization chart or what’s on a resume; it is a role played in one’s organization, church and community. With all of these various roles constantly changing, being a leader can simply mean being open to change, being reliable, and being responsible, regardless of age or position on the corporate ladder.

The attitudes of the generations vary from attitudes about loyalty, to staying on the cutting edge of technology; each generation brings unique leadership traits to their workplace. While some organizations are trying to figure out which generation’s way of leading is best, there is no cookie cutter solution. In reality, no generation is better or worse, they’re just different.

The Generational Guru will help your organization identify the obstacles and opportunities for leadership within each generation and understand the potential impact everyone can make as a leader.

Does one size or structure of a leadership development strategy work today, when we have four generations working side-by-side around the world with different needs and wants? Not exactly!

Come explore and learn with us in this highly interactive session. The speaker will present a variety of tips and techniques to expand and enrich your tool kit for designing and delivering exceptional leadership development strategies to support your organization's action plan.
 

You will leave this session with resources ready to be applied in the workplace to create a successful leadership development formula that is unique and customized for your or your clients' organizations. Sherri Elliott-Yeary represents a wealth of experience in training design, delivery, and development of leadership programs, with a focus on integrated talent management.

You will have the opportunity to engage in each of the activities presented. This session will provide a variety of delivery methods, such as:
 

1. Establishment of a road map where participants capture the ideas offered in the session as a take-home tool.
    

2. Exercises that inspire and drive home the key learning points.
    

3. Small-group storytelling and discussions that identify and explore a variety of effective approaches and strategies to leadership development in today's world of work.
    

4. Demonstrate and apply some practical tools, including tools already in use in the workplace to increase and enhance leadership development efforts.