Building a Culture of Respect and Acceptance Across Generations

Course Overview

Policy on cross-generational respect is judged by how it is applied in the difficult cases, not the easy ones. The organisation's reputation as an employer is built or lost through the people management and development capability. Where the wider people management and development agenda is measured, it improves; where it is only discussed, it drifts. They leave able to brief senior management on cross-generational respect in terms that support a decision. What blocks progress on the practice within people management and development is usually unclear ownership rather than unclear intent. It is written for people who have to make this aspect of people management and development work with the resources they already have. The course sets out a working method for cross-generational respect that participants can apply the week they return. Cases are chosen to expose the trade-offs in the wider people management and development agenda rather than to illustrate ideal conditions. The course ends by identifying what the participant will stop doing to make this area of people management and development sustainable.