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Cam Marston

Retention and Generations Expert

Cam Marston

Cam Marston has spent more than a decade studying workforce dynamics, with a keen focus on how generational biases play out from the stock room to the boardroom. One of a handful of experts dedicated to conquering the generational divide, Cam has shared his insight with hundreds of organizations eager to make sense of the changing business landscape.

Through relevant presentations that capture and maintain audience interest, Cam shares his personal experience, research findings and proven strategies for successfully navigating a multi-generational business world. His powerful message of generational context promotes understanding and motivates leaders to adapt their management styles to meet the needs of the rising generations in the workforce - while staying true to their own values.  

Since 1996, when he began revealing the effects of generational bias in the workforce, Cam has created a strong following as clients repeatedly bring him back to reach further and deeper within their organizations. His message of understanding and respect resonates at all levels.  

Clients such as General Electric, American Express, the Food Marketing Institute, Professional Convention Manager's Association (PCMA), and the US Army have engaged Cam to inform both management and staff about the importance generational views have on sales, hiring, retention and overall performance - the core issues companies tackle on a daily basis.  

His insight has also been shared through worldwide news channels, including Good Morning America, the BBC, the Chicago Tribune, the Philadelphia Inquirer, New Zealand Herald, Entrepreneur Magazine, Business Week, Money Magazine, Fortune Small Business (FSB), HR Management Today and the Edward Lowe Report; as well as numerous trade journals and city business journals throughout the United States.  

Cam's presentations are continually met with rave reviews, not only for his engaging style, but his ability to tailor the message to a specific industry or organizational dilemma. With a professional background in sales and research, Cam understands the reality of business from many angles - and his presentations demonstrate this with action-oriented solutions to recurring business problems.

His book, Motivating the "What's in it for me?" Workforce: Managing Across the Generational Divide, demonstrates the individual characteristics and motivating factors each generation brings to the workforce, accompanied by management tactics applicable to any business setting.  

Through large group presentations, intimate workshops and his published works, Cam gives his audience a series of lenses through which they can see the business world from each generation's perspective. Along with this understanding he delivers tactical guidelines that help individuals and organizations improve the performance of all generations in the workforce today.  

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Leadership and Teamwork: Four Generations in the Workplace. For the first time in history, four distinct generations are employed sided by side in the workplace. With differing values and seemingly incompatible views on leadership, these generations have stirred up unprecedented conflict in the business world. Effective management of this generational divide is vital to every organization?s longevity and success. What are each generation's core values? What do they expect of their leaders and how do they define success? In this engaging program, Cam Marston answers these questions and much more. Audiences will learn how each generation developed its core values, how that manifests in the workplace today, and why they can all not only operate alongside each other, but do so with extraordinary success. This program provides concrete examples and specific approaches to help frustrated managers build the individual connections needed to boost employee performance and retention. Attendees will walk away knowing the common generational characteristics, specific leadership needs of each generation, the new definition of company loyalty, and fresh guidelines for team building.

Sales and Customer Loyalty: Selling Across the Generations. The first rule of selling is steadfast: know your customer. With four distinct generations playing active roles in the buying decisions of companies worldwide, that tenet is increasingly difficult to fulfill. It is no longer enough to be personable and knowledgeable about your product. To succeed in today's business climate, you need to approach each buyer with an informed generational perspective and recognize the underlying biases, values, and expectations that pave the way to "yes." Marston looks inside each generation's core values to identify what forms their buying decisions and gives audiences the understanding required to develop a solid sales process, based on known generational biases and business preferences. Attendees will learn to identify subtle shifts that indicate upcoming leadership changes, create a fast and genuine connection with new customers, sell to their customers' expectations, build trust between the generations, highlight appropriate product selling points for each customer, and avoid common communication pitfalls. Cam uses examples to show how some companies today are effectively engaging generational marketing techniques to appeal to the unique decision making traits of each generation and prepare their sales teams for success in today's marketplace.

Management & Human Resources: Attracting and Retaining a New Generation of Employees
Good talent is hard to find, and even harder to keep. With company loyalty increasingly considered a comedic punch line rather than a standard employee trait, knowing how to identify, attract, and retain the very best talent may seem impossible. Generational DNA plays a huge role in the changing workforce dynamic. Understanding it unlocks the secret to selecting the right candidates and encouraging employee loyalty, both essential to business survival. The four generations in the workplace bring their own distinct biases about loyalty, leadership, time, and productivity to the office. Marston has studied these biases and their effects on attracting and retaining good employees. He provides specific examples of how every organization can create an environment that attracts the best talent and fosters, rather than discourages, employee loyalty. Audiences learn to identify the best prospects, create compelling employment offers, meet the long and short term goals of each generation, understand the motivating factors for each employee and become the kind of boss employees want to serve.

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