A project that has occupied my time these last few months is the creation of a new blog. While I have addressed generational issues in the workplace fairly frequently here, I sensed a need to create a new blog that was more specialized in its approach.
About three times a week for the past six months, a Baby Boomer or Gen X boss rants to me about a member of the twenty-something or Millennial generation who has done or said something that leaves the boss speechless. The rant usually begins with, “You wouldn’t believe what happened and often includes the words “slacker, “entitled, “uncommitted, and “Facebook junky. And with the same frequency, I also hear twenty-somethings, complain about their technology-challenged bosses who cling to outworn policies and procedures, who need to “get a life, and who don’t really care about the twenty-something’s career.
As someone who tries to earn a living by helping people to “work and play well with others, my cross-generational work is focusing more and more on helping Gen Xers and Baby Boomers understand the newest generation , the Millennials , and conversely helping Millennials adapt to a world of work that the generations that came before them created.
There is a major transformation occurring in organizations today. Baby Boomers are going to transition out of the world of work, as we know it , maybe not as fast as once thought given the decline in value of various retirement accounts. But they will move on. The reality is that Generation X, the next in the birth order, is much smaller than the Boomer generation. So future talent and a significant percentage of the leaders of tomorrow are going to come from this Millennial or twenty-something generation of flip-flops, nose studs, and tattoos.
So www.workingwithtwentysomethings.com is the new blog for and about the twenty-somethings in the workplace. I invite you to check it out.
I will continue to post blogs related to workplace issues from the current topic list here. However, I’ll address cross-generational workplace topics in the new blog. Thanks!