Conclusion

Into the Future We Go

When we connect with people, we relate based on common needs, goals, interests, or experiences. You and your best friends and family members have many areas of connection, as would longtime coworkers or two new employees hired on the same day and coming from the same engineering school. Two professionals from different functions, with different backgrounds, who are 40 years apart in age, have fewer obvious connections. But just because the connections are not obvious does not mean they do not exist.

Coaching up and down the generations is a vision for connections that are formed in spite of significant differences. ...

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