Speaking programs to help all generations thrive at work
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Getting From College to Career:
Design Your Path to Success
Program Description
How do you get a job without experience and get experience without a job? It’s the question virtually every college student and recent graduate faces.
With the rise of hybrid work, advances in artificial intelligence, and ever-shifting economic circumstances, the situation for aspiring Gen Z professionals has never been more challenging.
Lindsey Pollak, who started her career as a dorm RA in college, is the leading expert on guiding young professionals to build the experience, skills, and confidence they need to succeed.
This program helps attendees tackle today’s fast-moving job search and career environment, offering action-oriented tips and strategies with Lindsey’s signature humor and empathy.
Key Takeaways
for Attendees
- Use the best digital and mobile tools – including AI — for career prep and job hunting.
- E-mail, and text, and Zoom like a professional.
- Interview successfully in person and virtually.
- Reskill and upskill for “jobs of the future”.
- Manage your mindset and mental health through career ups and downs.
Starting Strong:
Secrets of Soft Skill Success and Career Acceleration
Program Description
Although 97% of employers say soft skills are essential, a mere 37% of the same set of employers say their entry-level employees possess the necessary soft skills. (Career Education Review)
In this timely, inspirational and action-oriented presentation, New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Pollak teaches essential soft skills including communication, managing up, building professional relationships, handling conflict and establishing a stellar reputation in today’s work environment.
Lindsey has the unique ability to connect with early career professionals making the transition into the working world. She provides actionable, relatable tips that attendees can apply immediately.
Key Takeaways
for Attendees
- Develop a growth mindset and understand why mindset matters.
- Clear tactics to build a strong reputation, communicate more effectively in person and online, and handle challenging situations.
- Build a strong relationship with your direct manager and other key stakeholders.
- Avoid common early career mistakes.
Managing From the Middle:
Effective Skills and Strategies
Program Description
In today’s fast-paced, multigenerational work environment, leadership is not confined to the senior levels of an organization. The role of mid-level managers is crucial, bridging the gap between strategic directives from the top and operational execution on the ground.
In this interactive program, workplace expert and New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Pollak delves into the unique challenges and opportunities that mid-level professionals face. She empowers attendees with actionable tools, insights and scenario-based learning to help them excel in their pivotal positions.
Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of their role as conduits for information, influencers of culture and drivers of performance.
Key Takeaways
for Attendees
- Evolve your personal brand to include being both an individual contributor and a people manager
- Learn time management and productivity strategies for managing multiple demands from multiple people
- Acquire specific strategies and tactics to better delegate, provide feedback and communicate with the people you manage
- Develop strategies to manage relationships and outcomes in situations where you don’t have direct authority
Leading Across Generations:
Turn Differences Into Advantages
Program Description
What if generational change is not a problem to overcome, but an opportunity to optimize? For the first time in history, five generations now share the workplace, and leaders must balance a generation gap of multiple decades between the oldest and youngest employees.
New York Times bestselling author and workplace expert Lindsey Pollak — often called a translator among generations —shares her insights into how leaders are can better understand and leverage the unique perspective of each generation.
In this dynamic, engaging and action-oriented program, attendees will gain actionable strategies to manage cross-generational challenges and turn multigenerational understanding into a competitive advantage.
Key Takeaways
for Attendees
- Develop a deep understanding of the five distinct generations and how they show up in a work setting.
- Discover the most common points of generational conflict related to communication, feedback, benefits, career pathing and more — and specific tactics to overcome them.
- Obtain actionable strategies to best communicate with and manage multigenerational teams.
The Remix:
How to Survive and Thrive in the Multigenerational Workplace
Program Description
What if generational change is not a problem to overcome, but an opportunity for individuals and organizations to optimize?
For the first time in history, five generations now share the workplace, and employees of all roles and levels must learn to work effectively with people who might be decades older or younger.
In this dynamic, engaging and action-oriented program New York Times bestselling author and multigenerational workplace expert Lindsey Pollak — often called a “generational translator” — will share her uniquely positive and data-driven approach to generational diversity. Attendees will gain specific, actionable strategies to manage cross-generational challenges and turn multigenerational understanding into a competitive advantage.
Key Takeaways
for Attendees
- Develop a deep understanding of the five distinct generations and how they show up in a work setting.
- Discover the most common points of generational conflict related to communication, feedback, benefits, career pathing and more — and specific tactics to overcome them.
- Obtain actionable strategies to strengthen generational understanding and cross-generational relationships.
Mentoring for Results:
A Joint Learning Experience for Mentors & Mentees
Program Description
According to the Association for Talent Development, 75 percent of executives point to mentoring as playing a key role in their careers.
But, as workplace expert Lindsey Pollak shares in this vital session, mentoring can take place in a wider — and more impactful — variety of formats than the traditional one-on-one coffee meeting or 60-minute Zoom call.
This program is designed for mentors and mentees to attend together to explore a wide range of mentoring options such as micro-mentoring, small group pods, reverse mentoring (a.k.a. co-mentoring), personal advisory boards and more.
Lindsey will also share best practices for both mentors and mentees to ensure every interaction is valuable for both participants.
Key Takeaways
for Attendees
- Discuss how to adapt mentoring relationships to succeed in today’s busy work environments.
- Learn best practices to simplify the logistics before, during and after a mentoring session to maintain momentum.
- Master specific, tactical strategies for making every mentoring interaction positive and productive for both parties.
Recalculating: Navigate Your Career Through the Changing World of Work
Program Description
We are living in times of great upheaval in the workplace. Even if the pandemic did not lead you to a major transition, you’ve likely made readjustments and pivots to keep up with the rapid pace of change in the world today.
This is no doubt a challenge, but it’s also an opportunity. That is the message of New York Times bestselling author Lindsey Pollak’s timely, inspirational and action-oriented presentation based on her 2021 book, Recalculating.
With her signature combination of engaging storytelling, data-driven insights and immediately applicable advice, Lindsey addresses such topics as: Adopting and maintaining a growth mindset, building a resilient personal brand, skilling and reskilling for the future and networking in the “new normal.”
Key Takeaways
for Attendees
- Learn daily habits and actions to adopt a growth mindset and achieve big goals through small steps.
- Identify ways to “control what you can” in times of change and uncertainty.
- Clarify your top priorities to simplify decision making and time management.
- Build a strong personal and professional network; you don’t have to accomplish anything alone.
Why Choose Lindsey?
There are many excellent speakers on the important topic of generational differences in the workplace.
Lindsey is unique in four key ways:
Generational Translator
Lindsey has a unique gift and keen ability to relate to both junior and senior professionals. She offers people of all generations a fresh perspective to find common ground and work toward collective goals.
Data Driven
Lindsey has been researching, writing and speaking about generational change in the workplace for more than 20 years. She sources and shares the most reputable data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the World Economic Forum, Pew Research Center and more.
Positive Perspective
Unlike some speakers who focus on negative generational stereotypes, Lindsey takes a positive and constructive approach to helping people navigate the present and future of work.
Actionable Strategies
Participants often say that Lindsey’s programs have not only widened their knowledge about generational change, but also provided a clear list of actions to be more successful in their multigenerational organizations.