Career Decisions and Generation X
Here are a few more of the questions that came in during a recent HBR-sponsored webinar — but that we didn't have time to get to. These are primarily focused on career decisions and interpersonal dynamics in the workplace. I hope you'll share your own views. On-Ramps You asked: What do good on-ramps for X'ers look like
Link Your Strategies For Retention and Growth!
This week we covered how effective succession planning can prevent your organization from succumbing to the talent shortage predicted in the next few years. Ron Katz joined us to discuss what you can do to improve your performance and data management systems and make sure your succession planning efforts adequately prepare you for the jobs and challenges of tomorrow. For more podcasts, webinars, and articles on recruiting be sure to check out ERE.net !
When Your Employees Know More Than You
Managing today's highly skilled professionals takes special skills — and not the ones that you may think. Oftentimes, knowledge workers know more than you do about their jobs. So, how do you manage people who know more about what they do than you do? In such instances, you have to look at leadership through the wants and needs of the worker as opposed to the skills of the leader. Here are some quick tips for effectively managing knowledge workers.
The Farm-to-Table Secret to Motivating People
The kitchen was a complete mess. I tried to clean the utensils and machines right after I used them but I couldn't keep up with my own cooking frenzy. I baked one loaf of carrot nut bread and two loaves of zucchini spice bread. I made a carrot-dill soup, a chilled yogurt-cucumber-dill soup, and a kale-swiss chard-carrot soup.
More Answers to Your Questions, Gen X
Recently, Harvard Business Review , in collaboration with Right Management , sponsored a webinar during which I spoke about the characteristics that I believe will make the members of Generation X strong leaders for the decade ahead. We didn't have time to get to all the questions that came in, so let's begin a discussion of some of them here.
Learn to Embrace the Tension of Diversity
As leaders, the rich diversity of culture and thought around the world is one of our greatest resources — if we use it as such. Differences of ideas, methods, motivations, and competencies can be used to build great organizations.
