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7 Tips to Bridge Generation Gaps
The Levity Effect - Why it Pays to Lighten Up!
 
7 Tips to Bridge Generation Gaps in the Workplace...
 
 Gen Y
How Leaders of Today can Retain Leaders for Tomorrow 

By Chandra Leavitt 

Twenty four year old Sam starts a new job on Monday morning and he's already decided, before he gets his first paycheck, whether he wants to stay or find another job.  Why is this?  What is it about our young people?  How can you, as a manager, retain young employees?
 
Gen Y's, or young people born after 1980, have grown up in an entirely different world.  A world where communication is faster, where everything is immediate - including gratification - and confidence in oneself is much more evident at a young age than it was for boomers and Gen X's. 
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Fresh Ideas March 2009
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When you look back at 2009 what will differentiate it from other years? For me, this year is about practicing the art of being bold!  According to Robert Frost, 'Freedom lies in being bold'. If this is true, then I'd be crazy not to diligently work at it this year and hopefully create a habit. After all, who doesn't want to feel free from the constraints of our busy lives and the barriers we often build around us?
 
So what is creating this interest in being bold? It actually started last year - 2008 was about possibility driven by a very cool book that I read, The Art of Possibility. Possibility, for me, is about pulling down all the walls around you in terms of what you think you can be doing with your life and thinking...what is possible here? Some amazing things happened last year - we received a business award, expanded our coaching team, collaborated on Airplane Journals ( a documentary about coaching), watched our business grow through offering new exciting services and coaching dream clients!
 
Late last year we showed the final cut of our documentary to a group of executive coaches - leaders in the industry from all over the world. At the end of it a very experienced coach commented "I love how bold you're being about your business and getting the word of coaching out". At that moment I thought, you know what, it is about being bold - for me, 2009 is going to be about being bold. It's about telling people what we're doing, and how excited we are about it. Read more...
 
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The Levity Effect - Why it Pays to Lighten Up!

A Book Review by Angie Thompson

 
The Levity EffectTitle: The Levity Effect
Authors:  Adrian Gostick and Scott Christopher
 
The Leader's SECRET Weapon. What most leadership books don't tell you. . .laughter beats all the competitors and lasts and lasts, longer than the Energizer Bunny!!!!
 
This book shows how adding levity to the daily diet at your office and home can turn your life from half empty to at least half full.  When we share humour we bond, build trust, open our minds to new ideas and add creativity to what we do. What lightens us up allows us to see and hear the world with new eyes and ears.  A few moments of giggling or belly holding roars of gaiety will instill the trust, respect and realization that we are all complex people with diverse perspectives but we all love to laugh.
 
This book is full or why's, how's and when's without being full of "beans" ...although that may be funny too. Get the data, get the facts and let your sense of humour show where it counts most -  with those you work and care about.  Please take a few minutes out of your day to read and glean some sparkle for yourself and your group. Enjoy.