Understanding Generations
by Communication plays an essential role in our professional life. Understanding that people from different generations think differently and communicating accordingly will help us achieve what we want.
Generational differences can affect both work and home. Generational gap may also lead to communicational gap. Hence understanding the distinct attitudes, behaviors, expectations, habits and motivational buttons of each generation can help us in managing a team with different generations.
At work, it may affect us in building teams, dealing with change, motivating, managing, and maintaining and increasing productivity. Learning how to communicate with the different generations can eliminate many major confrontations and misunderstandings in the workplace and the world of business.
Here are few points which will clearly define the characteristic nature of the people from different generations.
Baby Boomers they are
- People born between 1946 – 1964 fall in this generation
- They are very innovative entrepreneur. Best examples are founders of Microsoft, Apple etc…
- People with Gold Watch mentality – loyalty is observed
- Observes chain of command
- Workaholics
- Team Player
- Preferred communication style is ‘In person”
Generation X who are
- People born between 1965 – 1980
- Founders of Google, Yahoo, Dell
- Mistrust in Traditional Values
- Comfortable with informality
- Conservative financially
- Want structure & directions but without rules
Generation Y who are
- People born between 1981 – 2000
- Founders of Orkut, Myspace, facebook
- Irreverent , Impersonal, Abrasive, Impatient
- Dislikes long meetings
- They like to be informal and would like to take challenging tasks
- This generation was bought up in an smoothing environment with all the advanced technologies
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