What’s Your GenerationalIQ?
Posted on May 12, 2009
Filed Under Generational DNA, Generational IQ, Managing Multiple Generations |
What generation are you? It’s more than the year you were born. Your GENerationalDNA is based on shared experiences that drive your beliefs, values, interests, motivations, and behaviors.
Your GenerationalDNA can affect every aspect of your professional life:
- How well can you manage other generations?
- How do other generations see you as a manager or leader?
- Do you communicate well with members of other generations?
- Do you understand what motivates members of other generations in your workplace? Your target markets? Your client pool?
- Do you build strong intergenerational teams?
- Are you harnessing the strengths of multiple generations in your workforce?
The list goes on and on. Generational differences can lead to communication breakdowns, weak teams and ineffective management, affecting a company’s bottom line and long term stability. This is especially true as the Baby Boomers retire in mass leaving a growing knowledge gap within their organizations.
Failure to understand generational differences can also dilute the effectiveness of sales, pricing and marketing strategies as well as numerous internal operations including hiring, talent development, benefits mangement, working environments and arrangements, and management structure.
Take this quick assessment to find out your dominant generational style: GenerationalIQ Test.
Founded by Dave Brookmire, Generational DNA will be providing research, articles and consulting services that help companies unlock their company’s multigenerational potential, strengthen management and collaboration across generations, build strong teams and communication across generations, and develop the talent management and business continuity strategies they need to overcome the current generational shift and resulting knowledge gap.
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