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Marilyn Moats Kennedy

• Age Diversity
• Future Management Trends
• Office Politics

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Managing Change: Understanding The Demographics Of The Evolving Workplace

There are four age cohorts in the workplace now and a fifth coming on by the year 2005. These five groups share some traditional values but differ on important ones such as the role of managers, employer/employee loyalty, and what constitutes a good day's work. In this program we'll get an overview of the workplace values and lifestyles of the groups that will dominate the workplace in the next century. For example, money motivates two of the five groups but is far less effective with the latter three. For those three groups, time off is more important.

We'll look at ways of communicating that deliver the same message in ways that each group understands and responds to. Finally, we'll look at predictions for 2005 and beyond as the Baby Boomers retire and the Baby Busters (a.k.a. Gen Xers) take over.

This program can be presented as a one-hour overview or a half- or full-day session that can emphasize issues such as cross-generational recruitment and retention, motivation, conflict resolution, marketing and customer satisfaction.

Management for the Millennium: Walking Your Talk

One of the toughest lessons supervisors and managers must learn is managers serve the troops as well as lead them.

In this program we'll examine both the how and why of building and maintaining positive working relationships at every level. It's not just a matter of corporate values or good business. It's a matter of "walking your talk": acting out the behaviors you want to see in subordinates. We'll discuss new expectations of managers, why managers fail on an interpersonal level more often than on a technical level, understanding the nature of relationships and how to build positive ones, and why cutthroat politics most often cuts the perpetrator's throat.

Predicting Future Management Trends: Recognizing Untapped Opportunities

How do futurists do it?

In this program we'll look at three things:
What is a management trend?
Where do trends come from?
And, how do you research trends before the market discovers them?

We'll talk about important, widely available sources of information including specific sites on the Internet. We'll talk about how to spot predictions worth taking seriously. After this session, participants will have tools to separate fads from trends, to research ideas they believe will gain wider appeal, and to use such information for strategic planning and better management.

Speaker Information

Founder and managing partner of a 31-year-old management consulting firm, Marilyn Moats Kennedy is an expert on a variety of topics that affect the evolving workplace. She makes over 100 presentations a year on a variety of topics, including age diversity issues such as cross-generational motivation, management, communication, recruitment and retention, predicting future management trends, and organizational politics.

For 10 years, Kennedy was the "In the Trenches" columnist for Across the Board magazine and was the "Job Strategies" columnist for Glamour magazine for 18 years. She currently writes for The Physician Executive and is quoted regularly in national publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Fortune magazine and Fast Company magazine. She has appeared on "20/20" and "Good Morning America."

A former DePaul University faculty member, Kennedy is also founder and publisher of "Kennedy's Career Strategist," a newsletter on career planning, job hunting and office politics. She is the author of six books, the first of which, Office Politics: Seizing Power/Wielding Clout, established her as an expert on political survival in the cutthroat business world. Her other books include Career Knockouts: How to Battle Back, Salary Strategies: Everything You Need to Know to Get the Salary You Want, Powerbase: How to Build It/How to Keep It, Office Warfare: Getting Ahead in the Aggressive 80s, and The Glamour Guide to Office Smarts.

Kennedy holds a BSJ and MSJ from Northwestern University and is a charter member of Northwestern University's Council of 100 and The Medill School's Journalism Hall of Fame.

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