I am honored to win the 2016 Community Media Rika Welch leadership award for community impact; a testimony to the Guests who shared their stories on MidLIFE Matters. In addition, an 2018 interview I did with Judith Altmann, a Holocaust Survivor, won an award. In 2020 and 2021 two other awards acknowledged the content of interviews dealing with Child Sex Trafficking in CT and Non-Profit leadership. In 2023 MidLIFE Matters won First Place for a Profile Talk Show.Workplace Wisdom
Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at 02:20PM 
Millennials are in the news for behaving badly during job interviews -- texting, surfing the net, parking their cat carrier on the interviewer's desk -- and then playing with the cat! Earth to applicant: This is an audition!
How about hiring proven, hard-working Boomers, along with all that promising talent? In my book Growing Talent Through Cross-Training I recount a wonderful experience of doing just that - three Millennials and 3 Boomers were selected for a stimulus-backed management development program. All were stars -- and yes, the Boomers did influence the young-uns about workplace etiquette.
This e-book is one of many insightful reads offered by Get To The Point Books (www.gettothepointbooks.com). Check them out, they apply to all generations!
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