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- Strategic Issues
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1. The future of the contact center advisor
- Dr. Nicola Millard
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2. Systems thinking for service centers
- Prof. John Seddon
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3. Competitive contact in the future
- Mr. Rufus Grig
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4. Achieving sustainable service improvement in contact centers
- Mr. Jonathan Donovan
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5. Plan and deliver
- Mr. Steve Pink
- Training and Managing Contact Center Staff
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6. The human side of contact centers
- Dr. David Holman
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7. From agent to expert
- Dr. Jo Cheesman
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8. Emotions on the telephone
- Ms. Cilla Mckay
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9. The call and contact center trainer as change agent
- Mr. Steve Shellabear
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10. Growing great contact center communicators
- Mr. Nick Drake-Knight
- Motivating Contact Center Staff
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11. Wellbeing
- Ms. Maria Bourke
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12. Don't ask customers what they want, ask your staff
- Ms. Jennifer Kirkby
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13. Engaging employees through high involvement work practices
- Dr. Alison M. Konrad
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14. Employee engagement
- Mr. Jonathan Donovan
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15. Flexible working
- Mr. Jonathan Street
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16. Preventing agent burnout
- Ms. Francoise Tourniaire
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17. Understanding the generation gap
- Dr. Graeme Codrington
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18. Harnessing energy
- Ms. Fiona Cameron
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19. Voice from the front-line
- Mr. Jeff Rose-Martland
- Performance Metrics
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20. People and performance
- Ms. Penny Tamkin
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21. Performance metrics to sustain peak performance
- Mr. Jonathan Wilson
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22. Performance management - an art and a science
- Mr. Steve Shellabear
- Technology Review
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23. Contact center technology
- Mr. William Durr
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24. Speech technologies - recognition and analytics
- Mr. Jonathan Wax
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25. SMS: customer leading or customer led?
- Ms. Amanda Crank
- Case Studies
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26. Delivering public services
- Ms. Pauline Smith
Printable Handouts
Navigable Slide Index
- Introduction
- Values, attitudes and behaviour
- Importance of the era in which a person is born
- Howe and Strauss' Generations
- 80 year cycle in the world history
- Every country and culture is different
- Everyone has a value system
- The silent generation
- Defining values of the silent generation
- The baby boomers
- Defining values of the baby boomers
- Example: equity release
- Before and after 1968
- 1968
- 1989
- Generation X
- Defining values of generation X
- The cuspers
- The importance of cuspers
- Generation Y
- Defining values of generation Y
- Learning will never be the same again
- The generational theory - 4 phases
- Understanding why we don't understand
- Four steps to take
- Analyse
- Identify
- Empower
- Embed
- Applications
- Summary
- The call center environment
- Contact details and thank you
Topics Covered
- Why younger and older people see the world so differently
- How the era in which we are born shapes our worldview and expectations of the workplace
- How to sell more effectively to people from different generations
- How to manage and lead older and younger people
- Improving productivity of multigenerational teams
Talk Citation
Codrington, G. (2010, January 18). Understanding the generation gap [Video file]. In The Business & Management Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved May 9, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/IKEN2330.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on January 18, 2010