Adele Stickland Organisational Psychologist jobs and careers

About Adele Stickland Organisational Psychologist

An expert on resilience in the workplace and through my work I have observed the intergenerational mindset gap and how parenting style, communication, environment and exposure have influenced all generations from traditionalists and baby boomers to Gen Zs and Alphas. I’ve come to see the challenges that exist and what can be done for decreasing workplace presenteeism where employees are simply turning up but not fully functioning. Presenteeism is cutting productivity in organisations by over a third (Ref: Harvard Business 2004). The work I’m doing to increase awareness of the generational conflict in the workplace is helping to not only improve immediate productivity and also create longer-term collaborative harmony. Working with organisations it has become acutely apparent that there is a chasm of differing attitudes within the workplace and between the generations including: differing generational attitudes to work, perception of the speed of promotions expectations of what is required at work lack of engagement and participation in team meetings due to a lack of motivation My keynote begins the process of how to recognise these differences and enables teams to work together in harmony by learning from each other. These issues need to be resolved so that we don’t continue the generational mindset problem in the workplace and also perpetuate this further for future generations.