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Value Your Boomers

Value Your Boomers

Millennials may bring innovations and new thinking to your Project Team (managing-millennials), but don’t underestimate the value of the Boomer-age professionals on your team. We’ve put together some tips to ensure your entire Project Team benefits from the vast knowledge held by your most experienced professionals. Also check out (MANAGING A MULTI-GENERATIONAL TEAM)

Identify your experts. First, determine which team members have the most critical—or difficult to attain—experience. Any information that generally takes years to gather and assimilate should be your first priority. Once you know where key pieces of knowledge reside within your Project Team, you can put together a strategy to share that expertise with other members.

Be flexible. If you anticipate losing one or more team members to retirement in the near future, it’s time to determine if your Project Team will have a knowledge gap as a