The Baby Boomer Millennial Divide Making It Work At Work [Paperback]

The ever changing workforce requires new ways of communication and creative tools to groom and develop leadership in employees in todays demanding corporate culture.

For many managers, the modern workplace is one part opportunity, one part overwhelm. On any given day we are excited about finding interesting ways to capitalize on the exceptional combined talents of our employees, while we are stretched to figure out how to adjust our style of management to be able to treat each employee like an individual. This constant shifting between opportunity and overwhelm is not only necessary, but it's non-negotiable as a manager. - Beverly Mahone - Author ( The Baby Boomer Millennial Divide)

The Baby Boomer Millennial Divide - Making it Work at Work will help any new or seasoned manager adjust to the new thinking and culture of today's Millennials as they enter and rise through the workforce.

Why this Baby Boomer/Millennial Guide to Understanding Each Other in the Workplace is important right now:
Managers and employees alike need a field manual of sorts to navigate this new terrain--this new workplace where twenty-somethings and fifty-somethings work alongside one another. We need a guide to help us translate our respective generational norms into a universal language where we can live, work and sometimes play together without feeling misunderstood and dismissed. Today's modern workplace can be a battlefield of crossed wires and hurt feelings when someone who is twenty years your junior or senior makes a play for your pet project and threatens to steal your thunder.

If we take nothing else from the social experiment that we call working across the generations, it should be this . . . Millennials want to be mentored, guided, coached, steered, praised, recognized, promoted, engaged, inspired, heard, and lead. But they do not want to be managed.

How do we find common ground and collaboration when we feel dissed and blindsidedlƒ…