Experts Connection™ for Recruiters connects you, the hiring professional, with experts in all phases of recruitment at the $100K+ level. Topics will be presented for timely practical application (rather than theoretical discussions), offering you the ability to implement the ideas as soon as you hang up the phone. The subject matter is designed for both corporate hiring professionals as well as independent recruiters. Topics will include a wide variety of timely issues relating to the employment of managers and executives across all disciplines and industries. The teleseminars are formatted to include your questions submitted at the time of registration as well as during the presentation.

Guest Speaker: Tamara Erickson; author of Workforce Crises: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talents and a trilogy of books on how the various generations can succeed in the work force today. Director of nGenera Talent Insight consortium.
Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010
Time: 4:00-5:30 PM Eastern, 1:00-2:30 PM Pacific

Class Description: What are they thinking?!! If you’re hearing that refrain in your organization, you may be seeing the signs of a generational clash. Four generations are working together in today’s workplace – each bringing different experiences and assumptions to the job. It’s easy to misinterpret “the other guy” – or fall into easy stereotypes for thinking about the other generations’ actions.

Helping your organization – senior leaders, middle managers and new recruits – learn how to work together more effectively is a key priority for organizations today. As the talent shortage grows, it is increasingly important to create a culture that is welcoming and engaging for talented individuals of all ages.

The time has passed when organizations can afford to ignore the very real differences that the role of work has in the lives of each generation, in what individuals want from the work experience and even in fundamental assumptions about how to get things done.

And, there’s no need to. Once you understand the perspectives of those other guys, it will be easier to create a work environment that taps the talent across the ages.

Tammy’s work is based on years of in-depth research on the changing workforce and the assumptions each generation brings to work. Her approach is designed to help participants understand the “other guy’s” point of view, rather than rely on humorous but often misleading stereotypes. Learn practical solutions for dealing with these issues.

In this 90 minute teleseminar you will learn:

• How to look at work behavior through the lens of an individual’s background and experiences – how those experiences have influenced the evolution of broad generational patterns.
• Why our own assumptions and values often lead us to misinterpret others’ actions, with specific examples of some of the most frequently misunderstood generation conflicts emerging in today’s workforce.
• How each generation’s experience with technology has shaped fundamental assumptions about how to get things done.
• Practical approaches using each generation’s values in positive practices within the corporation.
• Specific ideas that attract the changing workforce, including the role of lateral career moves, “task not time,” no “prove it” tasks, cyclic work, bell-shaped or even “carillon” career paths, and many others.

About the Speaker:

Tamara J. Erickson is a McKinsey Award-winning author and respected expert on collaboration and innovation, on building talent, and on the nature of work in the intelligent economy. She was recently named one of the 50 most influential living management thinkers in the world by Thinkers 50, a biennial guide created by Dearlove and Crainer and published in The (London) Times.

Tammy has authored or co-authored numerous Harvard Business Review articles, including “It’s Time to Retire Retirement,” winner of the McKinsey Award, an MIT Sloan Management Review article, and the book Workforce Crisis: How to Beat the Coming Shortage of Skills and Talent. She recently completed a trilogy of books on how individuals in specific generations can excel in today’s workplace: Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation, What’s Next, Gen X? Keeping Up, Moving Ahead and Getting the Career You Want and Plugged In: The Generation Y Guide to Thriving at Work. Her popular blog “Across the Ages” is featured weekly on HBSP Online.

Tammy directs nGenera’s Talent Insight consortium, a major research initiative to understand far-reaching issues affecting the future of work. She is also a former member of the Boards of Directors of two Fortune 500 companies, PerkinElmer, Inc. and Allergan, Inc. She works with clients independently, as part of nGenera’s Onsite Solutions business, and in affiliation with Manpower, Inc., where she is Senior Practice Leader of the firm’s new practice in workforce strategy.