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April Management Journey Carnival

by Robert Tanner on April 16, 2012

Welcome to the April 2012 edition of the Management Journey Carnival.  Topics for the Management Journey Blog Carnival include decision making, emotional intelligence, communication, innovation, entrepreneurship, meeting management, human resources, staffing, teamwork, leadership, problem solving, employee engagement, and other related topics. This blog carnival presents 21 top recent posts from thought leaders around the web. [...]

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February Management Journey Carnival

by Robert Tanner on February 20, 2012

Welcome to the February 2012 edition of the Management Journey Carnival! Topics for this month’s Management Journey Blog Carnival include time management, employee engagement, project management, interpersonal effectiveness, social business, generational management, innovation, organizational learning, teamwork, leadership skills, customer relations, self-improvement, and other related topics. This blog carnival presents 21 top posts from thought leaders [...]

Generational personality comes from events that a generation of people experience as they are growing up in a certain point in time in American history.  These events shape the values of that generation which they later bring to the workplace. The core values of Baby Boomers include optimism, team orientation, personal gratification, health and wellness, personal [...]

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Someone Save Me From My Baby Boomer Manager!

by Robert Tanner on February 8, 2012

Note:  Shawn Greene asked me to address the topic of Gen Y team members working for Baby Boomer managers. As she mentioned, there’s a lot on the web about what Baby Boomers should do for this relationship but not much about what Gen Y should do.  Shawn is the founder of Savage & Greene, a professional [...]

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November Management Journey Carnival

by Robert Tanner on November 21, 2011

Welcome to the November 2011 edition of the Management Journey Carnival.  Topics for this month’s Management Journey Blog Carnival include interpersonal effectiveness, managing the 4 generations, communication, innovation, diversity, change management, teamwork, leadership, workplace productivity and other related topics. This blog carnival presents 21 of the best articles from Internet thought leaders. Can you believe [...]

New Millennium Trends – Can Baby Boomers and Generation Y Just Get Along?

by Robert Tanner July 28, 2011
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Expectations can be tricky and this is no different in the workplace!  As I listen to some Baby Boomer managers relate their frustrations about working with Generation Y (millennials) workers, their two main complaints center on their perceptions of the younger generation’s work ethic and sense of entitlement.  These managers express that Generation Y workers [...]

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Fascinating Numbers: Is 50 the New 30?

by Robert Tanner May 2, 2011
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The saying 50 is the new 30 may be nice to hear for individuals who are noticing the effects of age creeping up on them, but others in that demographic report that it is wishful thinking. (These doubtful individuals report that they do not feel the same at 50 as they did when they were [...]

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Move Aside Millennials & Boomers For Gen X!

by Robert Tanner February 3, 2011
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Much is being written about the  Millennials (or Generation Y)  as they replace the Boomers as the largest percentage of the workplace.  Lost sometimes is the importance of the generation that precedes the Millennials — Generation X, also referred to negatively as slackers (more about that later).  Generation X  are making a significant impact in [...]

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Gen Y: The Generation Gap Is Alive And Well!

by Robert Tanner January 23, 2011
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There is a saying that I used to hear older business professionals tell us younger workers who expressed our youthful frustrations about how the organization functioned. They became those terrible three words that we hated to hear: Just Keep Living. As they promised then, with time we would find the tables reversed and we would [...]

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