Interpersonal and Communication Skills

Navigating Generational Communication Styles

Bridge perspectives, build stronger connections

This course helps you communicate clearly and respectfully across different age groups. You'll discover how to harness the unique strengths of each generation, minimise misunderstandings, and foster a more connected, innovative workplace.

New Course Icon
Location
Date
Duration

1 Day

Time (AWST)
Address
Participants
Total

Overview

With up to five generations now working side by side, differences in values, communication styles and expectations can at times create misunderstanding or tension.

This program builds practical awareness of these differences and focuses on adaptable communication strategies that work across age groups.

Participants learn to leverage complementary strengths, reduce miscommunication and create cohesive, productive teams through inclusive and evidence-based communication practices.

 

Who should attend?

This course is designed for leaders, managers and team members who want to strengthen their ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across different age groups in the workplace.

 

Content

  • Understanding Generational Differences: Examine commonly discussed generational categories alongside the influences of age, career stage and context, to clarify what genuinely drives workplace behaviour
  • Bridging Communication Styles: Learn how to adapt communication channels, cadence and clarity to improve understanding, respect and trust across age groups
  • Reducing Friction and Miscommunication: Identify frequent flashpoints in multigenerational settings and apply communication tools that improve cooperation and clarity
  • Building Collaborative Team Cultures: Develop inclusive team norms, clear roles and feedback practices that help everyone work effectively, regardless of age or background
  • Leading Across Generations: Create conditions where complementary strengths can enhance engagement and performance.

Learning outcomes

You will learn to:

  • Identify common patterns in communication preferences across age groups and recognise the limits of generational labels
  • Explore how attitudes toward work, technology and feedback can vary with role, career stage and context
  • Apply strategies that prevent miscommunication and reduce friction in multigenerational teams
  • Build skills to connect respectfully and clearly by adapting message, medium and meeting design
  • Use practical techniques that foster inclusion, shared understanding and effective collaboration
  • Recognise when intergenerational collaboration can support innovation and performance, and how to create the conditions for it.
Related Results

Learn to function at your best with insights from the latest research and brain science into personal productivity and decision making. This course will explore a range of different techniques to give you a new toolkit of skills.

The use of data can be helpful to communicate messages to others but sometimes the main message can be lost or an audience can disengage. This course provides practical tips on sifting and using data in such a way to support the main message in a clear, succinct way.

How we manage our emotions and empathise with other people can have a dramatic impact on our effectiveness at leading and achieving results. This emotional intelligence course helps you better sense and respond to your own emotions and the emotions of others. This course is available in Perth and select regional locations.

This course equips you with the skills to drive behavioural change, whether you're introducing a new product, implementing safety protocols, launching software, or simply aiming to improve team punctuality. 

Courses - Frequently Asked Questions

Get answers to common queries.

FAQs