Jim in Action

Find out how changing your people practices can help you attract top talent and achieve greater collaboration, creativity and productivity in your organization. The FUSE team will conduct an audit planning call, spend one day on site and provide a set of recommendations that will help you ignite the power of the Cogenerational Workplace™.

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Jim Finkelstein speaks to groups of all sizes. He gets rave reviews for bringing energy, humor, insight and wisdom to every audience.

Talk to Jim about customizing a talk for your organization and check out the Media section to get a spark of Jim’s capabilities, interests and expertise.

Jim and the FUSE team will work with your team on igniting the Cogenerational Workplace™ within your own organization. By examining key components of your recruiting, hiring, training, communication, compensation and reward practices, they will that will help you ignite the power of the Cogenerational Workplace™ in an interactive working session.

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Join the contest. Write about your experiences in the Cogenerational Workplace — the good, the bad, the funny, the sad – and share them with Jim and the FUSE Team. We will select two winners from each generation — alphas, millennials, gen xers, boomers and seniors — and pay each winning author $500 for their submission (2500 words or less).

Submit your entry or inquire for more info. Winners will be announced 2012 and their work will be included in Jim’s next book: FUSE 2.0.

Jim is also the President and CEO of FutureSense, Inc., a management advisory and consulting firm specializing in organization and people. Jim and the FutureSense team advise clients on how to build and sustain their human capital capacity and improve organizational performance by attracting, developing, engaging, and retaining people.

For most of his career, Jim has been obsessed with figuring out how to get people at work to “play better in the sandbox” and has always marveled at the reasons why they don’t. His early experiences at summer camp (both as a camper and a counselor), his formal education in childhood psychology and organizational behavior, as well as his time spent coaching sports developed a deep fascination of working with multi-generational groups. The multitude of “Ah-hah!” moments that most all workers realize at some point also fascinates him, especially when different generations put their minds together.

After studying, observing, listening, and even working with his own millennial son, Jim decided it was finally time to put these ideas down on paper — to give others these “ah-hah!” moments and to cultivate what he now sees as the cogenerational workplace™. At first, he found that most research focused on the differences. Jim wants to find the similarities between the generations that ignite creativity, passion, and productivity. The spark of FUSE is itself both a product of and a catalyst for a new way of thinking about work.

FUSE is all about action — we can’t just read the book, we have to do the work. The modern workplace is amazingly diverse yet highly connected. Through opening and expanding conversation about the values, biases, and prejudgements in the workplace, Jim hopes to stimulate mutual understanding between the generations. These fusions will ignite the passion and creativity that will allow for progress and productivity for all who work.