Help Your Multigenerational Workforce Thrive
Eager to retain Millennials & Gen-Zs? Want them to collaborate more effectively with Boomers & Gen-Xers?
Keynote Speaker
Scrambling to meet the needs of different generations in your workplace?
Inspire your audience with practical ideas that turn your Boomer, Gen-Xer & Millennial workforce into a competitive advantage. Boost collaboration & retention today.
Guarantee a presentation that energizes your diverse audience with sensible ideas for action.
Workshops
Anxious to develop specific capabilities of your inexperienced workforce?
Accelerate skills of your next generation workforce to give feedback, think strategically, sell effectively, manage change or mentor others. Improve key competencies cost effectively.
Develop staff competencies using latest tools and techniques to improve productivity.
Coaching & Consulting
Want a culture that respects all generations’ needs?
Design & drive culture change to improve recruiting & retention of your changing workforce. Enhance knowledge transfer processes & practices.
Clarify & implement steps needed to build a productive multigenerational workplace.
Leading Your Multigenerational Workforce
Today there are four generations in the workforce – Baby Boomers, Gen-Xers, Millennials, and fast arriving Gen-Zs. And leaders are confronted with new challenges posed by an increasingly diverse, multigenerational workplace. This means inspiring and retaining impatient Millennials, developing Gen-Xers, and maximizing the productivity of Boomers approaching retirement.
But every multigenerational challenge occurs in a unique industry and geographic context that requires a range of solutions. Our broad experience with clients in sectors such as manufacturing, healthcare, supply chain and aerospace gives us insights into many options.
The solutions we propose are practical, customized and cost-effective. They respect the unique challenges posed by your geographic location, the distinctive characteristics of your workforce and the firm’s strategic objectives.
Managing Change to Leverage a Diverse Workforce
Interventions to maximize the productivity of a multigenerational workforce often call for significant organizational change. And leaders must manage these change dynamics effectively to make investments pay off.
We provide the latest tools for managing change. That means supplying frameworks, processes and tactics that will get you results faster and keep initiatives on track with executive coaching and hands on workshops. We can help you:
- Clarify the sponsor’s roles & responsibilities
- Create & sustain urgency needed to address specific problems
- Clarify your vision & objectives
- Communicate about new initiatives
- Remove barriers to change
- Deal with resistance
- Implement sustainable performance improvements
Changing Culture to Support a Multigen Workforce
Culture change is something many leaders want but few know how to execute. It can seem like an overwhelming task, but few things will have a greater impact. When the goal is to improve performance of your multigenerational workforce, we can provide a sensible approach to planning and launching a culture change initiative.
Develop Millennial Leaders Faster
Many organizations are confronting an intergenerational leadership gap. Baby Boomer executives are heading toward retirement and there aren’t enough mid-career leaders to take their place. So firms must develop their young high-potential leaders as fast as possible. We provide practical solutions to:
- Clarify new leadership skills needed
- Retain more young high potential leaders
- Develop leaders much faster than in the past
- Implement realistic succession plans in small and mid-sized organizations
How Can We Help You?
Entertaining keynote speaker delivers practical, customized programs.
David is a highly sought after speaker who engages and educates audiences about innovative solutions for problems caused by the loss or shortage of essential skills.
Every program is highly-customized to meet the specific needs of your audience and industry. Executives and professionals participating in David’s presentations come away energized with a new sense of urgency, specific tools to tackle the threats they face, and knowledge of clear action steps.
Interactive workshops accelerate learning and produce realistic action plans
We deliver uniquely customized onsite workshops or webinars on specific topics, such as managing change, mentoring, diagnosing and prioritizing skills gap risks, leadership development, and strategic selling. Every session is designed to address the specific needs and challenges facing participants in your organization. We do extensive pre-interviewing with participants and leaders and often develop custom case studies that address central problems facing the organization.
Collaborating to apply tools, develop processes and implement change
Leaders sometimes know exactly where skill shortages are hurting performance. But in complex organizations, like advanced manufacturing plants, hospitals, and energy suppliers, it’s hard to pinpoint and prioritize which capabilities demand the most resources.
Diagnostic interviews with all levels of management, facilitated feedback and workshops using risk assessment tools, and evaluation of different solution offerings can all be part of consulting projects designed to get real traction improving knowledge transfer and developing tomorrow’s workforce.
Learn faster in one-on-one sessions that help you create high value solutions to specific problems.
Our deep knowledge of workforce and leadership development issues and answers, combined with skillful counseling practices, make Dave an ideal coach for many leaders grappling with unique talent and knowledge management problems.
Sometimes coaching is a logical follow up program for workshops or an effective part of a consulting engagement. Interactions can be over coffee, via Skype, phone or email. Whatever best supports performance improvement and the outcomes you want.
Passionately Pursuing Solutions for a Changing Workforce
About David
Author, speaker and consultant Dr. David DeLong helps organizations find and implement practical solutions for critical skill shortages and faster knowledge transfer. President of the research-driven consulting firm Smart Workforce Strategies, he is also a research fellow at the MIT AgeLab and has been an adjunct professor at Babson College where he taught “Leading & Managing Change” & “Designing & Managing E-Business Organizations.”
Latest Writings
What David’s MultiGenerational Workforce Clients Are Saying…
Our members loved his talk! It was a favorite at our Spring membership meeting. One of the hardest working speakers I have ever worked with. He interviewed members to customize the program and make it even more meaningful for attendees.
Dan Walker, Managing Director
Industrial Fasteners Institute
Dave DeLong really hit a cord with our sponsors at our program. He is no doubt THE authority on the subject of the changing workforce.
Kavin Moody, Executive Director
Center for Information Management Studies, Babson College
Excellent session at the HR conference! The fun generational differences activities had everyone thinking: “Wow, times have changed at the blinking of an eye!”
Tia Wiggins, HR Business Partner
BAE Systems
Thanks for putting so much work and preparation into your presentation! We really appreciate your time, care and attention to making sure you keynote delivered on what NASPO members really need.
Molly Marsh, Programs Manager
National Association of State Procurement Officials
David DeLong has done workshops for our firm on mentoring, giving and receiving feedback, and starting difficult conversations. We have brought David back repeatedly to work with us.
Rachel Woodhouse, Principal
Dyer Brown Architects
The workshop was an exceptionally worthwhile event for managers and staff alike. Attendees commented how excited they were to immediately share his thoughts and material with their own teams.
H. Wayne Allen, Consultant
MasterCard
Your keynote presentation to MHCA last week in Scottsdale was just great. Our members have expressed their appreciation for your preparation and delivery style. David, you exceeded our expectations.
Donald J. Hevey, President & CEO
Mental Health Corp. of America
MultiGenerational Workforce Clients
