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Embracing Generational Diversity: A Manager's Guide

4/25/2024

 
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Published by Crothers Consulting, April 2024
​In today's evolving workforce, managers are faced with a unique challenge: leading teams comprised of Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z.  

​Each generation brings its own set of strengths, perspectives, and communication styles, resulting in a unique mix of experience within the team. 
Key Strategies for Managers: 

Embrace Individuality: It's important for managers to understand and value the diverse motivations and communication styles present across generations.  

Recognizing and respecting these differences lays the foundation for an inclusive team dynamic. Here’s a quick highlight of each generation's motivations: 
- Boomers (born 1942-64): Formal communications, work-centric, independent, goal-oriented, and career-focused
- Gen X (born 1965-80): Flexible and informal communications; Autonomous work, healthy work-life balance with flexibility, and technological creativity
- Millennials (born 1981-1996): Personalized and frequent internal communication, teamwork, flexibility/remote working options, professional development to learn new skills, and diverse and inclusive culture
- Gen Z (born 1997-2010): Open and honest communications, meaningful work stability, professional growth, collaboration, diverse and inclusive company culture, mental health prioritization and flexible work schedules

Foster Collaboration: Encourage mentorship and teamwork that transcends age groups. By creating opportunities for intergenerational collaboration, managers can foster innovation, mutual respect, and knowledge sharing within the team. 

Tailor Training: Offer training and development and on the job training that give options to learning and working preferences, ensuring that all team members feel supported and equipped to excel in an in-office and remote environment. 

Recognize Talent: Acknowledge and celebrate talent across all ages to boost morale and foster a sense of belonging within the team. Allow the organization to recognize each other as well. By recognizing and appreciating the motivations and contributions of each generation, managers can cultivate a supportive work environment. 

Stay Data-Informed: Keeping up with trends in retention, engagement, and leadership development is crucial. Recent data emphasizes the advantage of generational diversity in the workplace including stronger results compared to more similarly aged organizations. By staying informed, managers can leverage these insights to strengthen their team dynamics. 

Address Multigenerational Issues Quickly: When your team hits a generational sticking point in the workplace, remember these tried-and-true steps to get to a solution. 

1. Acknowledge the issue, don’t let it fester.
2. Appreciate opinions – allow each group to talk and frame why it’s important to them.
3. Be flexible / UNLESS something is a business necessity – defined as, if you don’t do it that way, you will lose customer,  lose money,  jeopardize funding,  jeopardize safety.  And if it’s a business necessity, explain it.
5. Leverage help.
6. Resolve with committee made up of different generations (versus management making decisions top down).

Are you harnessing the strengths of each generation to enhance your team's performance? Crothers Consulting can help you lead the charge in embracing generational diversity, transforming workplaces into more inclusive and dynamic environments. Please contact Isabelle Brennan for further information. 

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