Teleconference Prep for AAM Session in Chicago

You are invited to join a one-hour or less teleconference to prepare you for the AAM Session in Chicago: When Boomers and 13ers Converge. The session will occur on Monday, May 14, 9:00 a.m.

The teleconference will occur:
Thursday, March 29, 4:15 p.m.Eastern Daylight Time (adjust for where you are).
Call in number: 1-218-339-7800
PIN: 17776

Teleconference dos and don’ts:

* Don’t put us on hold as we then have to listen to your terrible phone music.
* Try and use a land line and be in a quiet place
* If you are in a noisy place, press *6 and mute your phone.
* Try to be on time as there will be quite a few of us.
* I’ll be calling in from a land line, so if you have trouble, try my cell 202/256-6439.
* If you can’t attend, but want to get the notes, let me know and I’ll be happy to send them to you.

In the next blog post is a rough outline of the session. Your comments, suggestions, and offers of assistance are welcome and most appreciated at the conference call, or by email if you can’t attend. I hope we’ve picked a time and date that you can accommodate. If not, I’d be happy to have a private call with anyone wishing it.

If you are a recognized Museum13er, and you don’t have a Ziggs profile up yet, or if your profile isn’t something you are proud of, please improve it now. All these profiles are likely to get a lot of attention very soon. If you want to refresh your memory about the Convergence project see: www.qm2.org/convergence. We’re always looking for volunteers, so let me know if you see something that needs doing, particularly if you can help.

Thanks in advance to all of you for making this session a complete success!

Mary Case
202/256-6439

AAM Session Outline: When Boomers and 13ers Converge

9:00 Mary’s introduction:
* 4 generations in the work place now
* Talk about each individual’s ability to self identify, about cusp people and the role the play as translators for the generations.
* Energy in conflict. That’s where the yeast is, where the new ideas come from.
* Introduce MiJin and Wendy

9:10 MiJin

9:20 Wendy

9:30 Mary instructs roundtables to choose a question. We will not have reports but we will have reflections at the end.

9:55 Mary ask for reflections from the tables, next steps, offers of assistance.

Explains Convergence of Museum Talent Project (Cards on the Table)

10:15 Mary Closes

* Invites people to Qm2 staying in on Tuesday night. 6:30 Palmer House.

Questions for the tables:

* Boomers. They are in the way. And they are everywhere! A quote confessed by a 13er to a Boomer. What do Boomers need to achieve before, or as, they retire? When do they know it is time to retire? What do 13ers need to step up to the challenge of leadership?

For the Boomer: What have you learned from a 13er? For the 13er: What have you learned from a Boomer? Importantly, how did you engage one another? What the exchange different than in your own cohort? Surprising? Difficult?

* Decision-Making: In your opinion, are there differences in decision-making styles between 13ers and Boomers? What about data collection and analysis, which leads to decision-making?

* Stretch opportunities: What opportunities stretched your limits? How did you receive them? Take? Make? From whom? When? Where? Under what conditions?

* Mentors, Coaches, Learning Partners, Supportive Networks: There are many ways a person can get a hand up and find a way to propel themselves forward. We hear young people say that mentors are scarce and we know that it gets lonelier and lonelier at you reach the top. What has been your experience with developing useful relationships? What were the environmental conditions? Short or long term? Situational? Disciplinary? What is under your control, what is not? Is the relationship one or two or many directional?

* Museum Audiences: Are there, in your opinion, differences between the ways Boomers and the 13ers see the museum audience? Do they communicate differently with the audience? Are there differences in the audiences themselves: Do audiences in the different generations approach museums differently? Do they want different things from museums?