Multigenerational Leadership  

Goals:

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Group Activity

If you are going through this training as a team or with others, it is helpful to develop some agreements for creating a safe space for everyone to participate.  

• Activity: Developing agreements. Creating a safe and supportive space (20 min) 

  • Break out into pairs. 

  • Share about a time when someone really listened to you and supported you to contribute your best. What specifically did that person do to make you feel listened to and supported. 

  • What other things can we do during our time together to support each other to feel safe and to participate? 

  • Come back together and report out. 

  • Discuss as a group. Why is creating a safe space for everyone to participate an important leadership skill?

Exploring concepts of leadership

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21st-century leaders face new challenges and opportunities. The very concept of community is defined in numerous ways. Our communities are more complex and more interconnected. Increasingly, diverse populations must find ways to share power and resources. Many groups have experienced discrimination and oppression and are, therefore, committed to social movements devoted to shifting that reality. When we understand our interdependence it can help us act effectively to create sustainable change that serves everyone in our communities. 

In today’s environment, community leaders must be capable of crossing many boundaries: those between individuals and groups, those among organizations, and those fostered by issues that divide the population. They need to bring people together in ways that heal old rifts and ruptures, they must know their own values as well as those of their culture, and they must be willing to challenge their assumptions—to unlearn and relearn. Effective leadership in the 21st century requires a collective, shared effort for the greater good. Collective Leadership Framework  - WK Kellogg Foundation

Activity

Activity: Supporting multigenerational leadership. What is leadership? (20 min)

1. Take a moment to reflect on your own definition of leadership. Jot down some notes.

2. What do the terms individual versus collective leadership mean to you?

   • When we understand our interdependence it helps us at 

     1. What does collective leadership mean to us? 

     2. What do we need from each other to support our leadership? 

     3. What do we need from other generations to support our leadership? 

     4. How can we support the leadership of other generations?  

Homework

Cross-Generational Commonalities and Differences - Have a conversation with someone of a different generation than you. Come up with three things you have in common and three things that are different.