Managing Generations Effectively Using the MBTI® Tool Meeting No: 67720

Overview

Four generations in the workforce—with lots of reasons for misunderstanding and frustration!  Traditionalists (in their 60s), Baby Boomers (from their mid-40s–60), Generation X (from their late 20s–early 40s), and the latest—the Millennial generation:  While there is great variety within each of these groups, the formative events of childhoods, adolescence impacted their expectations and values related to work.

Managers are mostly from the traditionalist and baby boomer generation.  They’re trying to supervise Generation X and the Millennial generation with methods that have worked in the past – and it’s not working very well.  Boomers privately refer to Gen Xers as “slackers” and cynics, with little if any loyalty to their employers.  Millennials are seen as self-centered, egotistical, not willing to pay their dues and needing hand-holding.

And the younger generations see their older managers as foolishly slaving, working long hours for little appreciation, controlling, and “beyond it.”  As one said, “What is it about you people and 7:30 a.m.?”

It’s like putting together a team with members from different cultures:  the key is to understand underlying values and norms driving the different behaviors, learn to appreciate the differences and the possible contributions, and identify more effective ways to manage the generation mix.

AMA’s workshop, Managing Generations Effectively Using the MBTI® Tool, utilizes the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, the world’s most widely used personality assessment to bridge the generation gap in the workplace.

Product Description

This one-day On-Site workshop includes:

  • Identification of generational influences, values, and cultural norms
  • A brief review of MBTI® type differences and their relationship to cultural norms
  • Application of MBTI® type concepts to illuminate generational differences
  • Analysis of current organizational and management styles from the perspective of generations and type
  • Suggestions and structured practice in dealing more effectively with different generations

Who Should Attend

Managers at all levels who are directly, or indirectly, responsible for teams composed of employees from various generations. This workshop is an ideal application for organizations currently using the MBTI® instrument in training programs. NOTE: Each participant must have completed the MBTI® instrument and received initial feedback and type verification before the workshop.

Benefits

  • Confront the challenges of the changing workforce, 2007 – 2020
  • Develop a perspective to understand the differences generations bring to work
  • Discover ways to bridge the gaps using generational understanding and MBTI® type
  • Develop self-awareness of your managing style and its impacts
  • Recognize impacts of current organizational practices and management styles on newer generations of workers
  • Identify practical steps to manage the generational mix more effectively

Learning Objectives

  • Recognizes the work values of different generations in the workforce
  • Utilizes MBTI® understanding to modify their own behavior with regards to working effectively with different generations
  • Analyzes organizational culture in terms of MBTI® Type
  • Applies knowledge of generations and Type to organizational issues such as recruitment and retention

Instructional Methods

In this one-day, intensive workshop, instructors present information through short lectures, then attendees break into small groups to work on assignments. Results of small group work is then presented and debriefed with the entire group. In addition, time will be spent to synthesize the day's learning and create individual action plans for implementation.

Outline

  • Beyond the stereotypes:  from blame to understanding
  • The “culture” of generations
  • Generational cultures and MBTI® type*
  • Analyzing your organization’s culture using type and generations*
  • Identifying appropriate modifications based on type and generations information
  • Your potential contributions and your possible challenges in dealing with the generation mix*
  • Action plans:  the first 60 days

NOTE:* Structured, guided activities resulting in practical steps


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