Today's workforce is made up of five unique generations; Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (Millennial) and Generation Z. According
to the Department of Labor, Millennial will be the largest generation in the workforce by 2020. Thousands of Baby Boomers are retiring every day. Each
generation has their preferred way of communicating, their own values, and their own rules for what is appropriate behavior at work. Traditionalists
and Baby Boomers are very comfortable with chain of command thinking at work, Millennial not so much. Last week during a management training
program, a manager shared with me that one of his employees texted him to ask for a raise. Can you even imagine sending a text to your boss to ask
for a raise? That sounded so strange to me, but I am a Baby Boomer, not a Millennial. Baby Boomers prefer face to face communication. I would have
walked into to my bosses office and asked for a raise. Millennials prefer electronic communication. Read More...
