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Project economy - leveraging the generational skills

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Priya Patra Delivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services Ltd Mumbai, India
I was reading this PMI article
http://www.newstatesman.com/sites/default/...p_sept_2019.pdf
by Cindy Anderson and Mike DePrisco
It clearly calls out how investing in young talent can add value in the project economy. I was wondering how can we leverage the skills of the other generations - genx, geny, baby boomers and traditional in the project economy ? what are your thoughts ?
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Luis Branco CEO| Business Insight, Consultores de Gestão, Ldª Carcavelos, Lisboa, Portugal
Dear Priya
Very pertinent the theme that brought to the debate
Thanks for sharing
The process of replacing one generation with another is natural
Therefore, I consider it important that people from different generations can work together on projects.
It's natural that they have to learn to work with each other
If at work we practice the 3 habits of interdependence (proposed by Stephen Covey):
- Think win-win
- Seek first to understand than to be understood
- Synergize
I am convinced that in projects the results will be better
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1 reply by Priya Patra
Oct 18, 2019 10:42 PM
Priya Patra
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Awesome, 3 golden rules for leveraging the gems of the generations
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Steve Ratkaj Ontario, Canada
1. We have institutionalized a formal mentoring program.
2. We also have a program for persons about to retire who can spend their remaining time shadowing others so that experiences and knowledge can be passed on.
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1 reply by Priya Patra
Oct 18, 2019 10:31 PM
Priya Patra
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Excellent ! A great way for knowledge transition. In many projects/ systems the functional knowledge is important, the shadowing concept can help us to blend the experience, functional knowledge along with the fresh ideas from the younger talent pool for success
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
Priya -

There was an article in HBR within the last month that covered reverse-mentoring for senior execs to learn from new/younger staff: https://hbr.org/2019/10/why-reverse-mentor...tocomplete=true

Some of the ideas in that article are apropos to your question...

Kiron
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1 reply by Priya Patra
Oct 18, 2019 10:28 PM
Priya Patra
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Yes I found that article thought provoking. thank you !
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Priya Patra Delivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services Ltd Mumbai, India
Oct 18, 2019 12:58 PM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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Priya -

There was an article in HBR within the last month that covered reverse-mentoring for senior execs to learn from new/younger staff: https://hbr.org/2019/10/why-reverse-mentor...tocomplete=true

Some of the ideas in that article are apropos to your question...

Kiron
Yes I found that article thought provoking. thank you !
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Priya Patra Delivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services Ltd Mumbai, India
Oct 18, 2019 12:22 PM
Replying to Steve Ratkaj
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1. We have institutionalized a formal mentoring program.
2. We also have a program for persons about to retire who can spend their remaining time shadowing others so that experiences and knowledge can be passed on.
Excellent ! A great way for knowledge transition. In many projects/ systems the functional knowledge is important, the shadowing concept can help us to blend the experience, functional knowledge along with the fresh ideas from the younger talent pool for success
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Priya Patra Delivery Director| Capgemini India Technology Services Ltd Mumbai, India
Oct 18, 2019 9:53 AM
Replying to Luis Branco
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Dear Priya
Very pertinent the theme that brought to the debate
Thanks for sharing
The process of replacing one generation with another is natural
Therefore, I consider it important that people from different generations can work together on projects.
It's natural that they have to learn to work with each other
If at work we practice the 3 habits of interdependence (proposed by Stephen Covey):
- Think win-win
- Seek first to understand than to be understood
- Synergize
I am convinced that in projects the results will be better
Awesome, 3 golden rules for leveraging the gems of the generations
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Sergio Luis Conte Helping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based Organizations Buenos Aires, Argentina
That´s is not new. "Project Economy" seems to be the new buzzword in the next years. You can search for this type of things in tradicional economy text. And the end is a matter of resources inside an specific economy in one area or the world. That´s because some articles fail to generalize. As I mentioned, is a well studied matter in economy. It belongs to macro economy.

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