Product Reviews - Mixing Four Generations - An Excerpt from a Review by Bill Ellet, Training Media Review
I’m told Mixing Four Generations in the Workplace is a best seller. I can see why.
This video program does a lot more than provide four or five general points on coping with a generational mix. Cam Marston, the presenter and a consultant on the topic, defines the four generations found in the workplace–Matures, Boomers, Gen X, and Millennials.
He defines them through essential characteristics that are easy to remember. Marston is careful not to pile on the adjectives; his selectivity helps make the definitions clearer. Boomers, he says, equate success with time spent on the job. They are both competitive and optimistic. Generation X wants you to prove what you say. Their big concern is credibility–your credibility.
Marston’s timing is great. Due to longevity and economic necessity, people are working longer and aren’t ceding their places in the workforce as they once did. Reinforcing this trend, social dynamics seem to change more rapidly than they did, altering how adults raise their children. The result is sharp differences between successive generations.
Organizations now house a mélange of age groups, and managers and HR people need some answers about how these different groups can be led and how they can be helped to work together. A wide span of employee ages is probably going to remain the norm in the workplace for a long time to come.
Reprinted from Training Media Review.
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