035: Millennial Mania with Lee Caraher
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 13 July 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Lee Caraher separates fact from fiction when it comes to millennials, and discusses how to work through intergenerational conflict.
You’ll learn:
1) Just what defines a millennial, exactly? And why do 72% of us reject the label?
2) What’s actually different about millennials vs. traditional generational bashing?
3) How to coordinate well cross-generationally.
About Lee
Lee Caraher started Double Forte in 2002 to work with good people, doing great work for good companies. Her friends and colleagues call her “The Millennial Whisperer.”
After struggling with how to work well with Millennial clients and now staffers (more than half of Lee’s staff is under 35) and then working to figure out how to make that work, Lee has written a positive and practical book about the topic, “Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work.”
She served as the Vice President of Corporate and Consumer Communications at the $1.6 Billion SEGA of America—their youngest US VP. She then served as Executive Vice President of The Weber Group and Founder and President of Red Whistle Communications, both Interpublic companies. Lee is active in the community and currently serves on numerous boards.
A graduate of Carleton College, with a degree in Medieval History, which she finds useful every day, Lee lives on the Peninsula with her husband, two sons, and their blind cat Al.
Items Mentioned in the Show
- Educational Resource, Khan Academy
- Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
- Lee Caraher’s book, Millennials & Management
- Lee Caraher’s Website
- Lee Caraher’s Twitter feed
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete Lekitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello, hello. Oh boy, I got a real fun interview for you. |
| 0:26.2 | Apparently I am a quote-unquote millennial in a quote at 32 and 3 quarters years old and I always kind of had a little bit of a beef about what I've read and heard about us so-called |
| 0:39.0 | millennials and what we are and are not and I wonder is that all real or new or someone's just |
| 0:44.4 | trying to make some stuff up well this guest here Lee Kerehara she sets us |
| 0:49.1 | straight and it's so handy so you're to learn a few key things that were eye |
| 0:54.0 | openers for me including one just what exactly defines a millennial in terms of the |
| 0:58.3 | age and year cutoffs and why is it that 72% of us reject that label? |
| 1:05.4 | Secondly, what is actually different |
| 1:08.4 | about millennials versus what is just |
| 1:10.9 | your typical intergenerational bashing that's been going on since the days of |
| 1:15.2 | Plato and three how do we coordinate well to work nicely and cooperatively and optimally cross-generationally. |
| 1:24.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes, the transcript, the things mentioned here in this episode, |
| 1:28.1 | you're going to find that over at awesome at your job.com. |
| 1:30.8 | And if you want just the takeaways faster while you're over at |
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| 1:38.1 | about Lee. Lee Kerr-Hurs started her company Double Forte in 2002 to work with good people doing great work for good companies. |
| 1:45.6 | Her friends and colleagues have called her, quote, the millennial whisper. |
| 1:50.5 | After struggling with how to work well with millennial clients and now staffers, |
| 1:54.6 | of which are more than half of her staff right now, |
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