Build More Age Friendly Practices Into Work Teams
Build more age friendly practices into work teams
1. Train our managers
Most employees report that their direct supervisors could benefit from training on how to lead teams in which up to five generations work together. Bring your people managers together to learn how to lead a mixed age team-- and why multigenerational teams create value for the team and the organization.
Actions To Consider
This 1.5 hour workshop is designed to introduce people managers to key concepts in: the value of mixed-age work teams, the value for people managers who adopt age-friendly team leadership practices, and specific practices they can use day to day. It translates research-backed best practices to hands-on activities for people managers to play with during the workshop, then apply in their daily work with their teams.
All people managers in the organization
Any HR team member or experienced people manager
Free
3 hours planning, 1.5 hours hosting
Steps and Resources
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01DRAFT PROPOSAL
Secure approval to offer this workshop using this draft proposal
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02MARKETING ASSETS
Invite people managers to join the workshop and encourage their managers to signal their support using these marketing assets
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03SLIDE DECK
Facilitate the workshop for your team using this slide deck, which is based on AARP's Managing Mixed Teams Guide. You can print worksheets from the guide for your team’s use during the workshop.
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04SURVEY
At the end of the workshop, ask participants to fill out this sample survey.
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05DRAFT EMAIL
Follow up with participants after the workshop using this draft email
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06DRAFT EMAIL
Update the leader(s) who approved the workshop using this draft email to highlight wins and learnings from the completed workshop
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07SURVEY
Help AARP improve the workshop resources by completing this short survey
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2. Adopt team practices
Make it easy for people managers to bring age friendly development activities into their team meetings. When managers "show" instead of "tell" their team how build more age friendly work habits, team members can learn critical skills, enjoy heightened psychological safety within the team, and be more engaged and productive.
Actions To Consider
In a team meeting, use the activities in Section IV of the Managing Mixed Age Teams Guide to strengthen your team's use of best practices
Many managers lead teams of people both older and younger than they are. This guide supports them with activities and practices.
3. Encourage self-reflection
Building age-friendly managerial and work habits is an ongoing process. Encourage people managers to take time to reflect on their efforts to build more age-friendly teams and to encourage their direct reports to do so.
Actions To Consider
In your own annual plan goals, and for your direct reports, identify ways your efforts to build an age-friendly, mixed age team can contribute to achieving your existing performance goals. This worksheet can get you started.
Use this worksheet to identify how your efforts to build an mixed age team can contribute to achieving your own performance goals.
Resources
1. Train our managers
Use this email to secure buy-in from your leadership team to host the Leading Mixed Age Teams workshop.
Use these marketing assets in your outreach to invite people managers to join the Leading Mixed Aged Teams workshop.
Facilitate the Leading Mixed Age Teams workshop for your employees using this slide deck.
At the conclusion of your workshop, please invite employees who joined the workshop to complete this brief participant survey.
Use this email to follow up with all participants after the conclusion of the Leading Mixed Age Teams workshop.
Use this email to follow up with those who helped you gain approval and support to host the Leading Mixed Age Teams workshop.
After you have hosted a workshop, help AARP improve the workshop resources by completing this short survey.
2. Adopt team practices
Many managers lead teams of people both older and younger than they are. This guide supports them with activities and practices.
3. Encourage self-reflection
Use this worksheet to identify how your efforts to build an mixed age team can contribute to achieving your own performance goals.
