How to Manage Employees Twice Your Age
With creativity, innovative ideas and a can-do attitude valued more than ever in the modern workplace, the young but ambitious can find themselves managing those nearly twice their age. Now that could be awkward, but there are ways to smooth over this potentially fraught situation and make it productive for everyone. Morey Stettner, writing on Investors.com from Investor’s Business Daily, takes on this topic and offers a couple of tips to make sure egos don’t get the best of everyone and keep politics from undermining your team: Talk Less, Listen More: Managers of all ages risk alienating their staff if they adopt a my-way-or-the-highway bossiness. But younger supervisors who come on too strong can stoke outright hostility among more experienced…
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