Leading Through Generational Differences with Lee Caraher

Published: June 24, 2019, 4:37 p.m.

Lee Caraher is the founder and CEO of Double Forte PR and Digital Marketing. She is a popular guest expert on leadership, intergenerational workplaces, public relations, crisis communications, social media and integrated marketing. Lee is the author of Millennials and Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work, which is a book based on her experience with first failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials in her business. Her second book, The Boomerang Principle: Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty from Employees, is a pragmatic and actionable guide to creating high-performing work cultures ready for the future.\n\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\n\n- Today, up to five generations may be working together.\n- One of the most common misunderstanding that happens among generations relates to the concept of time - specifically deadlines. Drive SPECIFICITY!\n- Maintain relationships former employees/members so that they are encouraged to return.\n- Train people and help them when they are looking for new opportunities (because they can help you even if they aren't employees).\n- If you are leaving an employer, leave well. Give plenty of notice, tie everything up, leave a full exit package of instructions and insights. Then, THANK your employer.\n- Careers are self-guided. Help people achieve their own goals, and that will encourage loyalty - even if that loyalty doesn't mean they work for you.\n\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\n\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? "Tell me more."\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \u201cA leader is\u2026\u201d A great listener, a great cheerleader, and a great delegator\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? "Tell me more."\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Build an A-Team, Whitney Johnson\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Stop talking.\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \u201cwhy?\u201d or \u201cwhy not?\u201d "Why not?"\n\nWebsite:\nhttps://leecaraher.com/ (https://leecaraher.com/)\n\nFind Lee on social media:\nTwitter: @https://twitter.com/LeeCaraher (leecaraher)\nInstagram: @https://www.instagram.com/leecaraher/ (leecarahe)