A multigenerational take on connection & conversation in the world of work
Hosted by a Millennial, a Gen-Xer, and a Baby Boomer, On Connection takes on topics relating to organizational life, leadership, and how our quality of connection influences our ability to perform and feel personally fulfilled at work.
While topics around human connection have become more mainstream in the business world in recent years, it’s still a largely underutilized asset in organizations, and yet we know it is a critical leverage point for achieving results. A key part of improving our connections means honoring and valuing difference. We believe differences + trust = brilliance, so along with our generational differences, we will be seeking out various perspectives on topics related to life at work so that we can all be smarter and stronger together.
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September 22, 2021
A Multigenerational Perspective
In our first episode, we focus on why getting a multigenerational perspective on topics relating to work and organizational life matters, and the things we can be smarter together about if we allow each generation to mentor the rest of us in the ways they are uniquely able to contribute. We talk about how growing up in different times gave us different models for leadership and conflict resolution, and the silent biases we might each have about things like being in an office vs. remote work, hierarchical structures and power dynamics, mental health, and more.
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Shownotes:
The Vitality Imperative: How connected leaders and their teams achieve more with less time, money & stress by Mickey Connolly, Jim Motroni, and Richard McDonald
The Vitality Imperative gives leaders a reliable roadmap for how to create and sustain a humane and lasting approach to the thorniest of challenges and opportunities in a modern organization.
Key Themes
Intro to Conversant [3:40]
Different worldviews of three generations [7:20]
How leadership and conflict resolution was modeled to different generations [16:45]
Differences + Trust = Brilliance. How can we be smarter together? [18:33]
- The Design of Work: Office, Hybrid or Remote?
- What does each generation have to mentor everyone else about?
- Hierarchy and power dynamics in organizations
- Employee Mental and Emotional Health
Differences in how generations communicate and converse [37:20]
What we learned from each other in our first episode [38:24]
This episode was recorded in June 2021.
