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A Generational dual between Gen Xer Meagan & her Baby Boomer co-author (also known as her DAD) Did you know that Baby Boomers over 50 crave developmental support from supervisors, but don't get as much as their younger peers?
Or, that Gen Xers are consistently voted the best managers?
Did you know that Generation Y employees are less apt to job hop than Gen Xers -• particularly when they view coworkers as friends?
Based on their best-selling book, Generations Inc.: From Boomers to Linksters, Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work, generation expert Meagan Johnson and corporate culture expert Larry Johnson, present the unique perspectives of a Gen-X daughter and her Baby Boomer dad on how each understands, communicates, motivates and manages different generations existing in the workplace today.
Understanding these generational characteristics gives managers an edge in everything from interviewing new hires and designing workstations, to planning meeting agendas, projects and assembling efficient teams.
Throughout the presentation, Meagan and Larry banter back and forth in a delightfully obnoxious, good-natured, humorous style, which helps participants, understand the generational differences found in the workplace today.
Zap the Gap; How to Avoid the AFTERMATH is the perfect addition to your meeting agenda. The program allows audience members to take the information and tools acquired during the keynote and put them to the test. Based upon pre-conference interviews, Meagan creates real-life scenarios that reflect the generational challenges participants are facing in their own industry. Meagan leads the group through an in-depth discussion on how to tackle the more perplexing generational obstacles facing people in their work-life and personal-life today. Members walk away from the program with a workbook that will serve as their generational guide when they return to the office and home.
Co-presentation with Baby Boomer DAD
Break Out Session
As a Gen Xer herself (people born between 1965 and 1980) Meagan takes on generational issues with an insider’s perspective. During the 1990s while working for companies like Quaker Oats, Kraft Foods and Xerox Meagan often heard negative comments about Gen Xers. Terms like “slacker generation,” “gold collar workers,” and the “Beavis and Butthead generation.”
Meagan knew those terms were unfair and untrue, so she began researching small and large businesses to debunk generational myths and uncover the most effective way to solve multi-generational clashes. That research lead to her most popular presentation, ZAP THE GAP How to Make Peace and Profit in a Multi-Generational World was born.
Job applicants are plentiful and unemployment is high but the fact remains that making the wrong generational choice can cost organizations hundreds of thousand dollars a year. Failure to create a multi-generational team that is effective, productive and profitable puts a company’s future growth and sustainability at risk. Ignoring the drastically diverse ways generations learn and communicate with each other is tantamount to turning your back on a tsunami.
In this highly charged, participative presentation, Meagan outlines the dominant generational forces in the workplace and how each age group’s “generational signposts” drive motivation, influence company loyalty and affect delivery of customer service. Based on pre-conference audience member interviews, Meagan will deliver a roadmap that will enable attendees to tackle their specific generational challenges successfully.
Meagan Johnson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as You’ll learn:, Generation Takedown! From Boomers To Linksters: Managing The Friction Between Generations, Zap The Gap: How to Avoid the AFTERMATH, Value:, Key issues covered include: and Zap The Gap!- How to Make Peace and Profit in a Multi-Generational World. The estimated speaking fee range to book Meagan Johnson for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Meagan Johnson generally travels from and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Dr. Will Miller, Emory Austin, Eileen McDargh, CSP, CPAE, Joseph Grenny and Robert Cialdini. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Meagan Johnson for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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