Comments on: The View from the Ground Floor http://www.workforceinstitute.org/blog/the-view-from-the-ground-floor/ The Workforce Institute Helps Empower Organizations to Address Human Capital Management Issues Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:56:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bill http://www.workforceinstitute.org/blog/the-view-from-the-ground-floor/comment-page-1/#comment-334 Bill Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:51:27 +0000 http://www.workforceinstitute.org/?p=216#comment-334 I'll watch with interest to see how people think that boomers and Gen Y'ers can best work together. We boomers are old enough to be your mother or father (actually, we ARE your mother or father). Can boomers relate to Gen Y'ers without subliminally thinking of them as their children? Can Gen Y'ers listen to boomers without tuning out? I'm hopeful. As a male boomer, I saw our generation respond to women in the workplace, for the most part accepting them as subordinates, colleagues, and bosses. Focusing on diversity helps: you don't have to single out one group that needs to be given special care or treatment. Instead, value the fact that different people with different life experiences can offer different things in the workplace. Talented leaders can draw on this to get better results than you could get from a homogenous team. I’ll watch with interest to see how people think that boomers and Gen Y’ers can best work together. We boomers are old enough to be your mother or father (actually, we ARE your mother or father). Can boomers relate to Gen Y’ers without subliminally thinking of them as their children? Can Gen Y’ers listen to boomers without tuning out?

I’m hopeful. As a male boomer, I saw our generation respond to women in the workplace, for the most part accepting them as subordinates, colleagues, and bosses.

Focusing on diversity helps: you don’t have to single out one group that needs to be given special care or treatment. Instead, value the fact that different people with different life experiences can offer different things in the workplace. Talented leaders can draw on this to get better results than you could get from a homogenous team.

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