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by Deborah Gilboa MD (Foreword by), Sean Donovan (Editor), Dillon Knight Kalkhurst (Author)
EVERYONE has challenges relating to different generations at work, school, home, or in their communities. GENERATION EVERYONE Helps you become self-aware, dispel generational stereotypes, and teach you how to use each generations' unique strengths to: -Enhance Internal and External Communications -Increase Employee, Customer, Family, and Volunteer Engagement -Relate to Your Gen Z Students or Your Youngest Employees -Bring Generational Harmony to the workplace, School, Community, and the Family Today, humans are living longer than ever before. This has created a scenario in our society in which five different generations are active in the economy, the workplace, the household, and the education system. Each generation has values, expectations, and tendencies that are generally unique to them and their peers. A one-size-fits-all model will not work in regard to engagement methodology. Learning to bridge the generational gaps and relate with people on their level will be invaluable in your quest to excel in life. In this book, Dillon condenses decades of knowledge and experience, distilling it into easily understandable information that will help you better understand yourself, your children, parents, co-workers, bosses, customers, teachers, and even complete strangers.
Author Biography
Dillon Kalkhurst is an authority on Intergenerational Engagement. He has over 25 years' experience helping Fortune 500 companies, national nonprofit organizations, school districts, and their families navigate internal and external generational communications challenges. Dillon founded The Center for Intergenerational Engagement to support and teach the findings in his book. Dillon is also the Co-Founder at D. Knight Marketing & Consulting Group, Inc. an agency that helps companies and nonprofit organizations reach Millennial parents and their Gen Z children. Before launching The Center for Intergenerational Engagement, Dillon worked at Scholastic where he created corporate and community social impact strategies that brought more than a million books to schools in underserved communities. He also was charged with engaging Scholastic's 1.6 million Millennial parent volunteer base. Dillon's book and The Center for Intergenerational Engagement keynotes, workshops, and training retreats help companies, nonprofits, schools, and families enhance communications, productivity, and engagement by embracing their "age diversity." Dillon is a trusted adviser and consultant for Fortune 500 companies, broadcasting companies, nonprofit community organizations, foundations and businesses that target specific generations of customers. His specialty is helping grow their organizations by addressing Millennial and Gen Z sweet spots. One successful strategy is advising companies on crafting social impact campaigns that support their communities while meeting their bottom line organizational objectives. Dillon is an outstanding presenter, persuasive spokesperson, and passionate advocate. A Huffington Post blogger and social media communicator. He communicates daily with thousands of followers about generational engagement, corporate social responsibility, and social impact partnership news and trends. Dillon is available to bring his energetic, entertaining, and informative Intergeneration Engagement keynotes, workshops, and training to your next conference, training or company function.
