All the world’s a stage William Shakespeare, (1564 – 1616) says: All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.(…) As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII – More on Shakespeare’s…
Category: Generations
Learning Leadership from a Serious Simulation Game – Online Coaching Best Practice
Let us re-share with you the post by Nina Trankova, Global Expert in Digital Communications Skills, Official Google+ Create Lead-Member and Top Contributor: “That might sound strange from a person who never played computer games at all.” The 100% individual result for such a short time (the global average time is 7h) and the metrics…
Perspective of an undergraduate student playing FLIGBY
I am a 19-year-old student enrolled in an International Politics and Government program at Bocconi University. This summer I was searching for an internship opportunity to gain experience and came across a wonderful team working with flow theory, and a serious game called FLIGBY. Before starting the internship, I was encouraged to complete the FLIGBY…
Training millenials
A shift is about to happen in the global workforce: just in four years, every second employee will belong to generation Y (millennials, who were born between 1981 and 2000) and soon replace baby-boomers who are about to retire (if they can or want to). Even though this demographic change is becoming unavoidably visible most companies…
Why baby-boomers need some little help on being creative? Or actually not really!
The original post can be found on Zoltan Buzday’s Google+ page: To be more creative and to be really original – is often requested for remaining personally competitive in modern organizational life. But in my observations as a leadership developer is that this is really hard for the baby-boomer generation: when they were small their parents…
The Theory of “Flow” And Its Relevance for Organizations – 5th (final) part from the working paper
Part 4 – Demographic Changes 3. Implications for employee training and learning Traditional, formal learning systems, in which “students” sit for hours and listen to (often not well crafted and delivered) lectures and take exams are becoming less and less effective because in an ever-growing number of societies young people have mastered learning – primarily…
The Theory of “Flow” And Its Relevance for Organizations – 4th part from the working paper
Part 3 – The changing context of managing 2. Demographic changes Of the demographic changes that are impacting management/leadership practices we will briefly discuss two phenomena: implications of the allegedly large “social gaps” between generations and the ageing of the population. Generation gaps: Social generations are cohorts of people born in the same date range and…
Spring chickens and old dogs – generations working together
About 150-200 years ago when people died at a younger age (around 40-60) and the yearly technical advancement wasn’t that significant, it didn’t cause any problems for generations to work together. It was obvious that everyone starts at the bottom at a young age and works him/herself up on the ladder by learning and perfecting the tricks of…