Managing Teams From Gen-Z to Boomer

By: Jennifer Romolini

Narrated by: Jennifer Romolini

For the first time, there are five distinct generations sharing the workplace at many American companies - from Baby Boomer to Generation Z. That means an age difference of up to 60 years and a multitude of experiences and attitudes. More crucially, it means there are tremendous challenges - as well as significant opportunity - when trying to foster collaboration between these diverse groups.

In this workshop, workplace culture expert (and proud Gen Xer) Jennifer Romolini examines this extraordinary phenomenon and how it has upended typical management strategies. She guides you through the biases and stereotypes that can cause intergenerational teams to stumble, exploring how to encourage collaboration across diverse working styles. And she shows how fresh thinking, innovative hiring and reporting structures, and effective communication can build teams in which everyone thrives, innovates, and succeeds.

Key takeaways:

• How age stereotypes can linger even in the most progressive workplaces
• Why some management styles don’t work in today’s diverse office
• Why avoiding labels - even in jest - is vital
• How to recognize the difference between self-advocacy and entitlement
• How hiring across generations can inject vitality and diversity

About the mentor:

Jennifer Romolini, a writer, speaker, consultant, and career expert, is the author of Weird in a World That’s Not: A Career Guide for Misfits, F*ckups, and Failures, the sharp-witted guide to getting the keeping the job you want. She was chief content officer for Shondaland.com as well as editor in chief for HelloGiggles and Yahoo Shine and ran the editorial operations for Yahoo’s Lifestyle sites.

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Obvious

Jennifer hits some problems that are obvious to us all, but lack practical team-building solutions.

very well explained

Narrated extremely well. just the information I need at this point in my career as I've recently mentioned to my managers my interest in developing my leadership skills.

In a nutshell

Short and bytesized. 6 chapters about 7-10 minutes
Full of practical points
Summarizes along the way

Great Info for Quick Reminders

Good quick run-through, and reminder, of how to properly act in a business setting. The background noises kept making me think that my phone was ringing. They could’ve done without that “music.”

This a great intro to this subject

I really valued the information in this workshop. The information was definitely interesting and easily adaptable to any business. I was just left wanting even more on this subject.

Excellent points placed into an easy read

Jennifer provided an excellent overview of inter-generational management of contractors and employers abroad. Good

good reminder to treat people as individuals

A one hour seminar on how to look at treating your teams is individuals rather than as prejudged groups across different age spectrum with prejudged biases and challenges of them. Shared by a manager who still remembers the mistakes she made And the lessons she learned.

good insights

this is a good reminder of how we treat others like we would like to be treated, with some new insights for consistency in overall team performance.

short, sweet, informative

great quick listen for those who want to brush up on their management style. What's nice is, she's not trying to change the world with groundbreaking brand new ideas. This book is more like listening to a friend tell you about how they manage. Personally, it helped me recognize how some elements of my style and her style have similarities. And her style gave me ideas on how to better define my style, and refine my approach in a more targeted, goal oriented way.

Workplace generations and the importance of diversity

The author has amazingly explained the five different aspects of maintaining and understanding the workplace culture . The diversity is a requirement for every team to be successful and how it can impact your team if not are on the same page , she also goes on to explain why it’s necessary not to assume every person of different gen to be on same page as you and how COMMUNICATION can play an important role in team building :-)