2877: From Baby Boomers to Gen Z: Building a Multi-Generational Tech Workforce
Tech Talks DailyApril 28, 2024
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2877: From Baby Boomers to Gen Z: Building a Multi-Generational Tech Workforce

Are you prepared to navigate the complex dynamics of a multi-generational workforce in the tech industry? In this episode of Tech Talks Daily, we delve into the profound insights of Michael Reidy, a seasoned consultant with Interaction Associates, who has dedicated over two decades to enhancing intergenerational collaboration within technology companies.

Michael will share his experiences on embracing the constant shifts in the tech landscape helps organizations stay innovative and responsive. With a rich background in mediating generational challenges, he emphasizes fostering relationships built on trust and mutual respect. According to Reidy, leaders play a critical role in shaping a culture that values diverse perspectives and promotes an enriching work environment for all age groups.

Throughout our conversation, we'll explore how interest-based dialogues, instead of position-based discussions, can bridge generational divides. Michael provides intriguing examples, including insights from the Northern Ireland peace process, demonstrating how finding common ground can lead to significant progress and innovation. Additionally, we'll discuss how the interplay between the 'crystallized intelligence' of experienced employees and the 'fluid intelligence' of younger workers can drive forward-thinking solutions and create a thriving, dynamic workplace.

As we ponder the implications of a future that includes up to five generations working side by side, Michael will share why recognizing and leveraging these generational differences is necessary and a considerable advantage for any tech organization.

How is your company preparing to integrate and benefit from a diverse generational workforce? After listening, join the conversation and share your thoughts and experiences with us.

[00:00:00] Are we fully leveraging the diverse potential of multi-generational teams in the tech industry?

[00:00:08] Well, today here on Tech Talks Daily I'm excited to welcome Michael Reedy onto the podcast.

[00:00:16] He's a seasoned consultant with Interaction Associates and he spent over 25 years guiding

[00:00:22] tech companies through the dynamics of a multi-generational workforce.

[00:00:28] His expertise shines in fostering innovation and collaboration across so many different age groups.

[00:00:35] In fact, there are currently five generations in the workplace

[00:00:39] so this makes it essential for thriving in this rapidly evolving tech landscape.

[00:00:45] So today we'll explore how constant change is the hallmark of the tech industry,

[00:00:50] why embracing this is crucial for innovation and we'll also discuss the significant role

[00:00:55] that leaders play in shaping the culture that bridges generational divides, builds trust and

[00:01:01] nurtures relationships. And he'll also share insights on how adopting interest-based conversations

[00:01:08] over position-based ones can turn generational differences from challenges into opportunities

[00:01:15] and also highlighting examples like the reconciliation efforts in Northern Ireland.

[00:01:19] He's going to illustrate so much about how finding common grounds can pave the way for substantial

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[00:02:12] let's get today's guest on. So buckle up and hold on tight as I beam your ears all the way to

[00:02:18] Boston, Massachusetts where Michael is waiting to join us. So a massive warm welcome to the show.

[00:02:26] Can you tell everyone listening a little about who you are and what you do?

[00:02:31] My name is Michael, Michael Reedy. I am a leadership consultant with a company called

[00:02:39] Interaction Associates. And my interest in this is fueled by my earlier interest in adult education,

[00:02:48] adult education depending on your accent and believing really that the workplace is the place

[00:02:56] where we now grow and learn second only to perhaps our family of origin and of course our

[00:03:05] home life. But so third, I suppose the third place of real learning is work. Living in Cambridge

[00:03:12] in the US and I work for, I'm now an owner of this company. So it's a small owner 21% but

[00:03:20] significant piece of my life is invested in the mission of helping people to work better together.

[00:03:29] And you've been on an incredible journey and someone with extensive experience of

[00:03:34] consulting with tech companies. And I'm curious looking back throughout your career,

[00:03:38] how have you seen the dynamics of multi-generational workforces? Have you seen that impact things

[00:03:44] like collaboration and innovation within these organizations because we hear a lot about the

[00:03:49] technology but I think it's the human dynamics that has changed too which is quite exciting.

[00:03:56] Yes it is. It's quite in the 25 years I've been doing this work, I have seen

[00:04:03] almost culture shifts and then culture reversals in terms of the importance that

[00:04:12] organizations especially tech organizations place on processes and simplification.

[00:04:20] And it seems like there's always a pendulum swing back and forth trying to avoid

[00:04:29] over-complexifying things and trying at the same time to negotiate a mentality shifts

[00:04:37] that favors the collaborative while never losing sight of the innovators.

[00:04:43] Yeah, completely with you. I could be exciting to say and if we consider the

[00:04:48] unique complexity of a multi-generational workforce, what that introduces to the workplace,

[00:04:54] what are some of the most common challenges that you've observed in communication and

[00:04:58] collaboration across a variety of age groups? And how can organizations effectively address

[00:05:04] these issues because they're good and bad on all sides but if everyone comes together it's

[00:05:09] phenomenal what can be achieved but what are you seeing here? I think among the challenges

[00:05:14] within the multi-generation of course are I suppose people have in another generation

[00:05:21] people thought they got a job for life and they thought this was it. I joined

[00:05:30] the bank and it was set. I became a member of a group of lawyers and I'm set.

[00:05:37] I joined the tech industry and it's one innovation after the other but it turns out that it's...

[00:05:47] there's a significant quote that I live out of is the only constant is change

[00:05:55] which I heard first in a financial services company and 27 years ago and I thought it was

[00:06:00] terribly wise and then I remembered about 18 months later some of my philosophy from university

[00:06:08] in Dublin a famous thinker called Heraclitus said you know you can't step in the same stream twice

[00:06:16] which of course means the stream is always moving the water is never stagnant in a stream

[00:06:23] and there's a second thing that's changing and that's you the person who's stepping in

[00:06:27] is always changing so one of the complexities I think is that there's this constant change

[00:06:37] and there's a little clash I think in the human where the human would like it to be

[00:06:43] regular would like it to be... I don't think the human wants order and sometimes we mistake

[00:06:52] stability and sameness for order whereas in fact there's a beautiful disorder that's necessary

[00:07:02] to be innovative so in my experience there is that clash in the those who want everything

[00:07:10] to stay as it is and the huge drive that's in the tech industry of course to not just to

[00:07:18] innovate but also to simplify and then to be creative within that context

[00:07:25] absolutely love that and just to to further bring that to life are there any examples you can share

[00:07:31] where maybe you've seen firsthand the distinct strengths of different generations such as

[00:07:36] crystallized intelligence from older generations fluid intelligence from younger ones being

[00:07:43] leveraged together to drive innovation and solve problems it'd be great to hear some

[00:07:47] positive examples is anything that springs to mind there yes I mean there is I think a significant

[00:07:54] some really beautiful examples in AI and the way that the tech industry is adapting to AI clearly

[00:08:02] the science that AI is built around is not new it's nearly much of the science of the

[00:08:11] big AI has been in known since 2017 and so what we're witnessing now is I suppose the

[00:08:25] integration of the newest brightest thinkers emerging and joining to leverage AI with those who have

[00:08:35] and navigated the models who built the only there's only five families apparently of within the

[00:08:44] technology of AI but it's interesting to me that they even use the word family when they

[00:08:52] approach the what is I think the greatest game changer currently within the tech industry

[00:09:01] and so in my experience the strength you bring out a beautiful point there with crystallized

[00:09:07] intelligence which is an intelligence that builds on experience and that understands

[00:09:15] the patterns of not just my life but of discovery and begins to leverage those

[00:09:22] and it's contrasted I think we do well to contrast that with fluid intelligence which is

[00:09:28] an intelligence that younger people can sit and exam ask the exam

[00:09:34] and with great ability based on not without actually having experienced

[00:09:43] what they're speaking about or what they're being tested on so when you marry the crystallized

[00:09:49] intelligence to the fluid intelligence between these I mean there's five generations

[00:09:55] different generations in our workplaces inner tech companies and at present I think you

[00:10:03] you have a fusion that is unstoppable in terms of its ability to co-create and to innovate

[00:10:12] yeah that's a great point about there being five generations there and of course

[00:10:16] feedback mechanisms across all those generations is crucial in any organizational setting so

[00:10:22] what strategies have you found that might have proven effective in extending feedback mechanisms

[00:10:28] across those generations to include insights and perspectives from all age groups within the

[00:10:33] workplace because there's not a one-size-fits-all that will appeal to every generation is there

[00:10:39] there is not of course Neil and I often think of my own my own growth I've been lucky to meet

[00:10:47] probably three managers in my life who shaped me and most of their shaping was done

[00:10:57] by encouragement was done by a feedback that emphasized or took the trouble to see

[00:11:06] the development that was happening in me and frame it back to me so I think there's a

[00:11:12] tremendous responsibility on the managerial folk within our tech industries to to invite

[00:11:23] the different generations into the game of learning into the game into the into the life

[00:11:30] journey of growing as humans but also growing as purpose driven and as people who are

[00:11:39] challenged to contribute their gift and invited to contribute their energy

[00:11:45] and stimulated to stay within within the workforce there is a little bit of mistrust

[00:11:55] I think sometimes that the younger generations are not as committed as we were thinking

[00:12:03] uh those this this we this mythical we of course is is the is the older folk who very often are in

[00:12:11] the managerial positions and if we allow ourselves to to live out of our uh biases I would say

[00:12:22] we're missing a significant possibility uh of of helping a whole generation the next generation

[00:12:31] mature just as we were helped to mature I didn't get to where I am today without somebody

[00:12:38] noticing what I did well uh noticing how I might change and saying it to me in a way that I could

[00:12:45] hear so I do think feedback I once heard a very enlightened speaker at a lunch at the

[00:12:56] at the conference board in New York at a lunchtime talk say it's foolish to call it feedback

[00:13:02] who wants feed who wants food back what it should be called is food forward and I thought gosh it's

[00:13:10] a small little reframe but if you if you begin to think of the the gift that you're giving as

[00:13:17] food everyone everybody every human body needs food uh but they and we needed for the next piece of

[00:13:26] our journey so it's it's always future focused it's always for the next moment of this collective

[00:13:34] journey we're on as a huge as a species really it's funny is it how it always comes back to

[00:13:40] food is another saying about a feedback sandwich we know what you've got the the

[00:13:44] positives and the negatives but they're all put into a nice sandwich kind of action there always

[00:13:50] comes back to food doesn't it well I think it's worthy of when we we do we do look for nourishment

[00:13:59] at work yeah and that's not a new thing ever since maybe we we decided that we weren't just hogs in

[00:14:09] an industrial machine complex that we could build a system where human happiness was possible

[00:14:19] and human ambition could be fueled in a work context I think we've we've we've turned on

[00:14:28] the possibility of it being nurturing of it being nourishing and of it being food or life

[00:14:37] giving and from your viewpoint what are the would you say is the specific actions that

[00:14:44] leaders could take to maybe cultivate a culture where generational differences are not just

[00:14:49] tolerated but actually celebrated and encourage each generation to thrive and and contribute to

[00:14:54] their fullest potential I know I'm painting a picture of like a workplace utopia but it is

[00:14:59] possible isn't it oh I think it's I think we underestimate that the power of leaders

[00:15:07] in terms of shaping of a culture and there's a rather infamous saying that that culture eats

[00:15:15] strategy for breakfast and in other words the the way we do things around here

[00:15:22] is is actually central which is how I would define culture and the the creation of human

[00:15:32] relationships we sometimes say you get results which is a leading indicator by how you leverage

[00:15:40] two other things processes which is how we go about getting the results and relationships

[00:15:46] imagine a triangle imagine an equilateral triangle you don't have to have any one thing

[00:15:53] on the top but but think in terms of leading indicator think of our lagging indicator

[00:15:59] I sometimes ask groups which is a lagging indicator results or process or relationship

[00:16:05] and they think for a while and they end up saying the lagging indicator well which

[00:16:11] is a leading indicator and then they say more readily process is a leading indicator I would

[00:16:18] say relationship also is a leading indicator in in general results are lagging they they

[00:16:25] they depend on the process they depend on the on the relationship so I think the workplace

[00:16:30] culture needs an emphasis on from each generation to build relationships back and forth

[00:16:41] so giving a certain amount of autonomy I think especially to the to the the millennials and the

[00:16:48] gen z tapping into their creativity and allowing for short and long-term relations commitments

[00:16:55] is really central I think there's a there's an older model which says we have an apprentice model

[00:17:02] which dominated I think the recruitment process even even in the tech industry

[00:17:11] but I think it's no longer appealing so instead a culture I think that promotes innovation

[00:17:18] that that says you can grow here personally and there would be a bit of flexibility for you

[00:17:25] will resonate more with with all generations in my experience of of late I think the leaders

[00:17:36] have the responsibility of of cleaning up the processes or inviting a streamlining of the

[00:17:42] processes and I think people are hungry for clarity around processes and

[00:17:49] and that means leveraging people's I suppose emotional intelligence and leveraging their social

[00:17:58] intelligence in in in general those who have stayed in our industry have a third intelligence

[00:18:06] which is a it's I would it's the theory is that it's called contextual intelligence

[00:18:14] that is to say if you've spent 10 years in in in the tech industry in a particular organization

[00:18:20] you know how to navigate that particular culture that's a kind of intelligence that

[00:18:27] somebody just entering has to take a certain amount of time to acquire and so the blend

[00:18:35] then of the technical knowledge that gets you the job with the adaptability to

[00:18:45] and the agility that is required to remain in it in in a position and grow brings about

[00:18:54] kind of a synergy that does enhance I think efficiency and innovation so trust of course

[00:19:00] is is the is the key the key to really building the and enriching the context

[00:19:13] that people work in and so it brings me to saying that I think there's recognizing differences

[00:19:23] is it is a key and recognizing the gifts or the strengths we don't want all the same people

[00:19:32] who went to the same universities as us necessarily in fact we want different thinking

[00:19:38] and of course complementary styles but you couldn't imagine in a soccer team having

[00:19:46] a successful team if they were all goalkeepers you couldn't imagine in an American football context

[00:19:53] if they were all if they were all forwards it would not really work if they're all offense

[00:20:02] so I do think the leadership is offered an extraordinary possibility of bridging the gaps

[00:20:10] and I think you've just unintentionally described why the UK political spectrums it's such a mess

[00:20:18] right now we've got nothing but 12 goalkeepers are all went to the same school you know

[00:20:25] it is an extraordinary challenge to them to look I think one of the greatest things to

[00:20:32] that leaders can do is and leverage their own um know their own strategic thinking capability

[00:20:39] but also hire for for different strategic thinking strengths and and that that sometimes

[00:20:47] means looking beyond where I went to school or how I was educated to include a freshness of perspective

[00:20:56] and before you came on the podcast today I was doing a little research on you and I was reading

[00:21:00] how you've also mentioned the importance of leaders moving from positions to to interest

[00:21:06] to reconcile differences within that multi-generational workforce again incredibly forward thinking

[00:21:12] but can you elaborate on how that approach maybe you've seen how it has facilitated more

[00:21:16] harmonious and productive interactions in your work with different tech companies that you've

[00:21:21] seen throughout your career yeah I I think like never before uh tech companies are expected

[00:21:28] to work cross-functionally and there why maybe even just 10 years ago you were in your

[00:21:37] uh you were in services or are you were in uh r&d or you were in uh a particular slice

[00:21:48] of an organization but but now I think we are being invited uh in our in the in the

[00:21:54] organizations that to actually work beyond our our individual from from from from up across

[00:22:04] functionally and now that means that we are invited uh to consider what is the thinking

[00:22:09] um that is animating um many different uh segments of the organization uh that means we

[00:22:17] I think people enter into most conversations with with positions uh when when it comes to

[00:22:24] tackling an issue like solving a problem like uh opening uh within the sales function having the

[00:22:33] sales and be able to talk to the r&d and um there's very often different positions are taken up

[00:22:41] um now what has been found I think is people can get positional and stay positional

[00:22:49] and they can almost be on top of their own mountain looking across at each other and waving

[00:22:55] their their thinking flag uh if you let it stay at position very little changes

[00:23:02] people are happy in their position they're happy in their isolation

[00:23:06] if you wanted to work cross-functionally I think the invitation has to be made to find out what is

[00:23:12] below position what's driving position so people will say well it could be values yes it could be

[00:23:21] needs certainly uh it could be worries yes and there is a group who and who say

[00:23:29] out what's a what's a really good word for what drives position is interests

[00:23:35] uh and if you can have always intergenerationally an interest-based conversation rather than a

[00:23:42] position-based conversation I think you're going to change every conversation uh and of

[00:23:48] course the secret sauce you're looking for is could we possibly get to a common interest

[00:23:53] just a tiny common interest uh now out of common interest will come in time perhaps

[00:24:01] small agreements and that they are the building block of civilization believe it or not this

[00:24:06] particular way of framing and understanding has been used in my own country in Ireland

[00:24:12] in the north of Ireland during the peace process by a man called George Mitchell came

[00:24:18] to the north of Ireland and and met I think it's he wrote about this over the course of two years in

[00:24:25] 1996 to 1998 he met 24 different positions that came to speak with him not everyone came to speak

[00:24:33] with him uh towards uh this time of year uh in in March in March April of 1998 he said

[00:24:42] I'm we're going to have a meeting for a week and we're going to try to get to common interest

[00:24:48] uh and I'm going to stop coming over from from North America I have a new wife I have a new child

[00:24:54] and uh and so they had a meeting for a week which actually lasted two weeks and then they

[00:25:00] he brokered an agreement which was which was announced on a Friday which happened to be the

[00:25:06] Christian holiday of good Friday so it became known as the Belfast Agreement or the Good Friday

[00:25:10] Agreement but this is the he brokered a conversation that ended uh essentially the troubles and now

[00:25:18] the real miracle happened in 2005 when somebody who had stayed outside of that process uh because

[00:25:26] they said our position is we do not talk to terrorists uh that was a party led by the

[00:25:31] reverendine pay reverendine pays me the democratians party had stayed outside of this whole

[00:25:37] process um meanwhile gerry Adams who led an organization called uh shin fame or the IRA uh

[00:25:46] his party became the biggest boat winner on the nationalist side in 2005 and miracle happened

[00:25:53] the party led by reverendine paisley and the party led by gerry Adams went into a power sharing

[00:25:59] based on a common interest and when they came to knowing what was the common interest it

[00:26:03] wasn't peace because peace in in military context like this sometimes is not attractive to everyone

[00:26:11] um but what was common was they all had children and they all had an interest in their children

[00:26:18] growing up in a context that was not dominated by the book the gun or the bullet the bullet

[00:26:24] or the bomb uh and even to this very day just recently uh in the north of Ireland

[00:26:32] the big the power sharing executive was reconstituted with two women one from the shin fame and one

[00:26:38] from the democratic unionist becoming the new first time ever leaders uh female leaders

[00:26:45] in this in this of a power sharing so and now i'm saying what works in politics what works in

[00:26:51] government i think can work uh if it can work in northern Ireland i think it can work in our tech

[00:26:59] context as well well that's such a powerful story and if we were to take everything you've just

[00:27:05] said into the workplace i know you're an advocate for seeing conflicts there's sometimes a positive

[00:27:10] force so are there any examples in the the workplace from your consulting experience where

[00:27:17] generational conflict within a tech organization maybe actually led to a breakthrough in innovations

[00:27:23] or or new solutions because as you said earlier in our conversation you don't get fixes and you

[00:27:28] don't solve anything by everybody thinking the same way it's that diversity of thought

[00:27:33] where the where the magic happens isn't it it is really uh Neil i i mean the examples are many

[00:27:40] and many um the the famous ones of course are that the original maker of the of the of the small of

[00:27:50] this phone uh nokia missed it when it came to touching touching the screen uh they said a

[00:27:58] little bit like the canadian group um who said you've got to press down the buttons people

[00:28:03] will never not like that uh and they held on to the blackberry people uh but not not to make a

[00:28:12] saint out of steve jobs but he's he had a younger mentality he had a different generational view of

[00:28:19] things uh which were which were built around simplifying making it possible for uh just the

[00:28:29] touch of your thumb just the touch of your finger to to to transform a phone from being uh

[00:28:40] into what it is today at almost the the carrier of nearly nearly everything that we want to

[00:28:47] and hold dearly from photographs to to names to uh to the transmission of of innovative data

[00:28:56] so i do feel that um trans apparently steve jobs was not a great it was a hard man to work for

[00:29:06] not not that i ever met him but uh but i think you're breaking a mold if you're going to break

[00:29:12] a mold they say it's very hard to it's very hard to bake anything without baking without

[00:29:20] breaking the egg uh and at some level you've got to be prepared to break something in order to create

[00:29:27] something and that that will bring uh to let go of something it goes back to the change thing

[00:29:34] change is the only constant uh in in our in our tech world world and we've we need to embrace

[00:29:41] that again and again and again and that will bring good conflict 100 with you and i'm old

[00:29:48] enough to remember i think when those iPhones came out they i think it was steve bolmer of microsoft at

[00:29:53] the time he was he was laughing couldn't stop laughing at the idea of a phone that you couldn't

[00:29:58] you couldn't physically type and make your emails like you could the blackberry and said this will

[00:30:03] never work but of course it did quite the opposite didn't it yes it was it transformed our lines

[00:30:10] yeah for better or worse but there's an argument for another do you know do you know

[00:30:14] where your sony walkman is today oh yes with the the orange uh pads on the earphones i remember like

[00:30:22] well but it's in the basement or it's in the it's in the attic yeah somewhere it might be the cliff

[00:30:29] richard video where i was it i like tall speakers i like small speakers always remember like his

[00:30:35] roller skating around but yes but if we look forward how do you anticipate the dynamics of

[00:30:43] having five generations in the workplace how do you see that evolving particularly in the tech

[00:30:48] industry and is there any advice that you'd offer to any up-and-coming leaders that could be listening

[00:30:53] on how they should prepare and ultimately thrive in this increasingly diverse workforce well

[00:31:01] i think we are only touching the tail of the of the gift of the five generations

[00:31:09] yeah we are we're beginning especially in the light of cova to go beyond the biases that are a

[00:31:18] little insentile really and we're beginning to understand there's wisdom in in the old there's

[00:31:27] wisdom in the middle there's it there's wisdom in the old so it's it's leveraging i think

[00:31:33] that crystallized intelligence and leveraging uh the the the brilliance really of the fluid

[00:31:41] intelligence and fusing them and recognizing that the differences are the gift and they are what

[00:31:51] we can leverage they really are and i think that's a beautiful moment to end our conversation on but

[00:31:57] before i let you go i always ask my guests to leave one final gift and that is a song

[00:32:02] that they can add to our Spotify playlist all i'm going to ask is what would you like to

[00:32:06] leave to that list and why well the song that comes to my mind as i contemplate the five generations

[00:32:14] and the future is is a is a bob dillon song called blown in the wind um at one level the

[00:32:21] song is about inviting people to uh think beyond war think beyond conflict um think

[00:32:33] think into peace but it's also inviting people to hear and listen to each other uh

[00:32:39] and it's saying if we could do that um we could mend and build a new world and so it seems to me

[00:32:49] that is the the co-creative moment we're in uh where five generations are co-laborating

[00:32:57] which is laboring together they're co-creating which is making it up as they go along and they're

[00:33:06] co-habitating in the workplace uh so it's it's an extraordinary moment for the answer

[00:33:14] as to what it will be is blowing in the wind uh and the wind is at our backs as the Irish

[00:33:20] blessing says may the wind continue to be our backs um and may the world rise before us as we move

[00:33:28] wow that is possibly one of the best answers i've had to that question

[00:33:32] cracking song from a brilliant album as well i think it was the freewheeling album yeah

[00:33:36] was that that that had a famous cover in a street in new york if i remember rightly where the

[00:33:41] girl on his arm is alright right susie susie um i can't remember her second name but yes she was

[00:33:48] she was the love of his life at the time yeah powerful great album i always people

[00:33:52] who check that out as well and for anyone listening wanting to find out more information

[00:33:57] about interaction associates you the everything we've discussed today contact your team what's

[00:34:03] the best starting point for everything i think go to www interaction associates and um uh

[00:34:10] please and we'd be delighted to host you uh on that website and um and we would invite

[00:34:18] you to it ask us questions and explore invite us to uh to have a conversation about the needs

[00:34:27] that are um that are arising in your organization we have some experience of helping people

[00:34:33] uh shift and change their workplaces by demonstrating the power of collaborative capability

[00:34:40] and transferring the gift of skills within the collaborative frames mindset

[00:34:48] well this is a tech podcast but every day i always finish by saying technology works best

[00:34:53] when it brings people together and i look at your story there and talking about a future of

[00:34:58] work where there are five different generations in the workplace and using technology to bring

[00:35:04] them all together accepting that conflict is a catalyst for innovation and leveraging diverse

[00:35:10] strengths that is where the magic happens and multi-generational workforce dynamics

[00:35:15] was something we could talk about for another couple of hours but just thank you for shining

[00:35:19] a light on this crucial topic i really appreciate your time today thanks for joining me thank you

[00:35:24] me and be well stay well go well so as we conclude today's episode consider this how

[00:35:31] does your organization manage to blend of generational perspectives as i said there's five

[00:35:37] generations in the workplace working side by side right now so are there any opportunities

[00:35:43] that you're missing by not fully engaging with every group this is where i invite you to

[00:35:49] join the dialogue share your experiences and thoughts on fostering intergenerational

[00:35:54] collaboration what strategies have you seen or implemented that effectively harness these

[00:36:00] collective strengths of a diverse workforce email me tech blog writer outlook.com twitter

[00:36:06] linkedin instagram just at neil c hugh's let's keep this conversation going and learn from each

[00:36:11] other that is what this podcast is all about and i also invite you to join me again tomorrow

[00:36:17] would we all again with a different guest a different topic from a different sector

[00:36:22] hopefully proving how technology works best when it brings people together

[00:36:26] so thank you for listening as always and until next time don't be a stranger