Whether you are a Boomer, Gen X, Millennial or Gen Z, discover the unique advantages of working on a multigenerational team in the UN context and learn how to turn challenges into opportunities. This experiential course equips you with practical skills to bridge generational differences in your team to foster collaboration and support team members effectively.
Understanding the generational landscape of today’s workforce - including values, perspectives, preferences, work and communication styles - is crucial for effective leadership.
Today’s leaders manage teams with up to four generations (e.g. Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X and Boomers) working together. This presents leadership and cultural challenges, particularly in ensuring engagement, inclusion, and leveraging the diverse strengths of staff of all generations. However, it also offers significant opportunities. Research shows that when organizations embrace multigenerational diversity, they often see increased engagement, greater innovation, enhanced well-being, greater results, and enhanced problem-solving capabilities.
Maximizing Multigenerational Teams (MMT) programme aims to enhance participants' self and team awareness, and develop skills for cross-generational collaborative leadership. Building on the UN System Leadership and Competency Frameworks, the course will equip leaders with the skills to leverage the strengths of each individual in age-diverse teams to stimulate innovation, solve problems, and boost collaboration.
As more generations work side by side, leaders must navigate these differences to foster collaboration, innovation, inclusion and productivity.
By the end of the course, the participants will be able to:
The course applies proven learning and behaviour-change frameworks, emphasizing hands-on experience, collaboration strategies and building confidence to challenge the status quo.
In this learning journey, you will:
Week 1: Demystifying Multigenerational Diversity - Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 2-4pm CEST
Week 2: Exploring Multigenerational Workplace & Career Values and Expectations - Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 2-4pm CEST
Week 3: Enabling Multigenerational Communication - Tuesday, 20 May 2025, 2-4pm CEST
Week 4: Maximizing Tools & Work Processes for Multigenerational Teams
(Digital Tools, Collaborative Platforms, AI) - Tuesday, 27 May 2025, 2-4pm CEST
Week 5: Resolving Multigenerational Conflict & Maximizing Collaboration & Results - Tuesday, 3 June 2025, 2-4pm CEST
The programme is delivered through UNSSC's e-learning platform. After completing the certification programme, participants will gain access to an exclusive alumni network for continuous learning around key leadership and management-related topics.
* Some modifications to the programme and time schedule are possible. Find your local time zone: click here.
UN personnel at all levels and ages, including with supervisory, management and leadership functions, at headquarters, regional offices and country offices
The programme fee of $1,250 includes: