A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage

This book is more about sociology than psychology. It is about how growing up in different time periods and experiencing different realities can affect a person’s mindset on a team.

2. When we’re scared, we become more concerned with protocol than progress.

In any case, when the newest generation shows up at work having never had a full-time job nor worked alongside professionals, it can be frustrating.

Not every challenge is caused by a generation gap. There are differences in: personalities socioeconomics gender perspectives ethnic and cultural background geographical history family origin

As each generation comes of age, they have the option to develop into a strong or weak population of adults. They can become known more for consuming or contributing, to become victors or victims of their era.

While Gen Z suffers from mental health issues far more than previous generations, much of that was happening long before the COVID-19 outbreak. If we can help them navigate that issue, we’ll find them intuitive when it comes to the future. They’ll likely be the quickest to alter methods and will be your fastest learners.

First, it includes the benefits of each generation in the workforce, including Generations Y and Z. Second, it offers ideas on how to leverage each generation’s benefits to a team, making the most of what each demographic has to offer. Third, it furnishes a plan to practice principles on social and emotional intelligence among all team members.

Second, professionals have always assumed that kids are lazy or disrespectful (dating back to Socrates), but the generation gap is more distinct because new technology creates subcultures. Hence, generations often don’t have to connect to survive. We need insight in order to bridge these subcultures in workplaces and among families.

By the late 1980s, Generation X had become the hot topic. This youth population represented everything alternative: they were unplugged, grunge, and commonly called the “MTV generation.”