The Learning Café

10 Tips for Adding Millennials to Your Meeting Mix

admin — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:02:33 +0000

Most professional associations are struggling with how to widen their reach and appeal to their youngest members and prospects. Smart leaders in membership and marketing understand the importance of engaging their industry’s “new blood” to keep their organizations vital and moving forward. But members of the Millennial generation don’t typically respond to traditional communications or invitations to association meetings and conferences.
At The Learning Café, we see this failure to connect quite often, across a wide range of industries. So in order to help organizations like yours, we’ve put together a new Action Checklist. In “Engaging Millennials in Professional Associations and Conferences,” we offer 10 actions you can take that will help you bridge this common generation gap. We hope you’ll download this PDF and then let us know what you think.

Bridge Your Generation Gaps Now, Because They’re Here to Stay

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:44:54 +0000

How wide is the generation gap in your workplace?

How wide do you think it will be in a couple of years, when Millennials will comprise half of the world’s employees?

That’s right—50% of the workforce in 2014 will be those born after 1980. Meanwhile, older employees continue to work after traditional retirement age—which means the four-generation workplace will continue for the foreseeable future.

You really should be preparing now for some big generational shifts. Diane’s recent guest column in Forward magazine, “Four Generations, One Workplace,” outlines some general advice on updating management style, educating employees, and instituting new hiring practices—all with the goal of keeping your organization vital and relevant.

FOUR GENERATIONS, ONE WORKPLACE

No mentor? No problem!

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:15:11 +0000

Did you know you can mentor yourself? Our latest Quick Reference Guide “Mentor Yourself,” provides concise tips and a wealth of targeted, results-oriented guidance in just two pages.

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The Learning Café discusses Millennials at work on current.com

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:59:22 +0000

Interview on current.com - The Young Turks.

Click here to listen to Devon’s interview on current.com. On The Young Turks webcast she discusses what distinguishes the Millennials from older generations in the workplace and what they want from their work. Current.com/theyoungturks hosts a live chat every night during the show and Devon appeared via Skype.

The first question was “What makes Millenials different than older generations?” This podcast starts with Devon’s response…

Mentoring the Gap: Tips on Closing the Generation Gaps That Hamper Effective Mentoring Relationships

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 03:17:29 +0000

Article published in the ASTD InterChange (p 8-10), November 2011, by Devon Scheef and Diane Thielfoldt, The Learning Café

How modern is your mentoring? Like every other business practice you employ, mentoring should continually evolve and grow to match your organization’s shifting workforce, needs and environment. And that includes improving how different generations of participants in your mentoring program work together.

Click on the article image above or the word Download below to take a look at cross-generational mentoring partnerships and see how well they’re working.

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Millennial Managers: Today’s Youngest Leaders Examine Our Future

admin — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:20:50 +0000

Find out how today’s youngest leaders view their role within their organizations, their management methods, and their values. The Learning Café surveyed Millennials age 24 to 34 who hold positions ranging from senior manager to director, asking them to predict how their generation will differ from older leaders. In the report “The Future of Leadership: Millennial Views of Leading,” you can read their verbatim responses.

Click on the cover image or the word Download below for a free copy of the report to get a glimpse into the future of your own workplace, as well as that of corporate America.

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Engaging a Changing Workforce, Study of Four Generations

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:04:37 +0000

Think you’ve read and heard it all about the four-generation workforce? Check out Engaging a Changing Workforce, Study of Four Generations by downloading the PDF below. Based on 2,000 employee and manager responses from corporations, government and not-for-profit organizations, the study sets the baseline for current, authoritative research about engagement and disengagement factors related to four generations of U.S. workers.

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Business Strategies for Intergenerational Meetings

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:55:34 +0000

Recognizing and working with generational preferences has become a reality these days, and nowhere is it more obvious than at meetings. This article in Executive Travel outlines seven tips for intergenerational meetings from The Learning Café. Click here to read the article.

Knowledge Transfer as Wisdom Sharing

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:49:40 +0000

Devon Scheef of The Learning Café co-authored the article on “Knowledge Transfer as Wisdom Sharing.” The article focuses on the critical human element in knowledge transfer efforts. Check out the 10 tactics for wisdom sharing and see if any will work in your organization. Click on Knowledge Transfer as Wisdom Sharing to read the article in the March 2011 digital edition of Talent Management magazine.

Change the Way You Work in 2011

admin — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:10:17 +0000

Wish you had a crystal ball? You’re not alone.

Organizations of all types, all around the world, have experienced dramatic change over the last three years. And even as 2011 gets off to a bright and busy start, that climate of change doesn’t seem to be fading.

To help you keep up, we’re offering a peek inside our crystal ball. We’ve gleaned some terrifically helpful information and insights from our clients as well as our own independent research, to discover 2011′s top five talent trends. These are the areas that successful managers need to act on now, in order to stay on top of workplace trends.

Learn about the shifting status quo in retaining top talent, stretching your thin resources, the nimble way to mentor, and more. You’ll find it in our Trends 2011 Report.

And if you want some guidance with keeping up with any of these trends, send us an e-mail. We’ll be polishing up that crystal ball on your behalf.

To learn how to win with your workforce in 2011 download the PDF of our Trends 2011 Report.

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