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GENERATIONALLY DIVERSE TEAMS By Alyson Van Hooser Incredible leaders of diverse teams at work need to understand the stories from their people, not just the statistics about them. There are answers in their stories that you’ll never get from statistics alone. Let’s dig into the information you need to make the best decisions when it comes to engaging your people. How To Lead Diverse Teams At Work I work with new leaders to develop them to achieve higher performance through education and training. During a session this week, the conversation turned in a direction I wasn’t planning for - but I’m glad it did! A leader in the room raised their hand and said something to the extent of I have some employees that don’t like 18
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having conversations with people. That’s a generational problem, right? The leader wasn’t wrong, but they weren’t right either. With the most diverse workforce to date, understanding your people in a way that will help you lead them to achieve the best results is not easy. What is easy…is not gathering information from all the right sources and assuming or predicting incorrect root causes of issues. Science Gives You A Starting Point It’s very common for assumptions to be made about people. How could you not?! Everywhere you turn headlines are screaming information at you about may 2021
