Tim Elmore

At, at a Growing Leaders event in Atlanta, Georgia.

You and I were both spending the day with Tim Elmore, and that was either right before or around the time that you were getting ready to transition into working-

Yeah

... with Growing Leaders, if I remember correctly.

It was just after I had started there.

Okay.

Any day that we get to spend with Tim Elmore is a good day.

Uh, I owe Tim-

Now, another idea that I have heard is you can host people at your house and have some sort of an event.

I believe it was Dr. Tim Elmore who shared this, which, by the way, fantastic interview.

If you go back to the archives, it wasn't that long ago.

Highly, highly recommend that conversation I had.

And that is one thing that you can do is you and your child select some other people outside your home that are important influences in their lives and plan interaction with them.

And Dr. Tim Elmore, in one of his recent books, talked about the importance of how he helped in more of a rite of passage type of activity.

They planned out these adults that were going to be a part of his daughter's life.

And over a one-year period, planned interaction with these five other ladies that they had determined were people that she would want as a role model in her life in some way.

We know that there's five, maybe even six.

And we have a training where we spend some time about leading the multi-generational team based off of Tim Elmore's work.

You think about the number of people that are retiring.

And I would ask you, or I would ask the CEO, say, do we have a bench that internally, not higher, because you know how you and I feel about going and hiring externally and what that does to the culture.

And we can unbeknowingly to ourselves with our children, train them to not take risks.

And so Dr. Tim Elmore has written a book.

He's been doing some teaching on leadership in teenagers and youngsters.

One of his recent books addresses the whole idea of how we can short circuit this process of maturity.

Our topic today is part two on the future of work.

I'm Susan Davis, executive facilitator and coach with Maxwell Leadership, and with us is your generational expert, Dr. Tim Elmore.

Welcome, Tim.

Thank you, Susan.

And he's wondering if maybe he's the one that needs to adapt.

Today, I'm speaking with Tim Elmore, best-selling author, leadership expert, and founder of Growing Leaders.

Tim has spent decades helping to bridge the generational gap and to help leaders connect with younger employees rather than just try to correct them.

And I'm excited to hear how Tim would help someone like Robert who has the right intention to be able to let go of the way things used to be and how to lead people and focus on not just trying to retain talent, but to develop this younger generation.