Meet the five different generations in today's workplace

Generational differences are not going away. As the generations age, they won’t become more alike, but rather the differences in their generational personalities will grow stronger over time. Indeed, when hard times hit each generation is likely to entrench themselves into old habits and ingrained attitudes and behaviors. Now is a good time to examine each generation individually. This allows you to study the events and conditions of their formative years and helps you visualize the point of view through which each generation sees the world. The objective here isn’t to create people strategies based on well-defined age brackets or to demand that employees conform to their peers based on a common age. The goal is to boost company productivity and minimize time-wasting, generational conflicts by better understanding your workforce, their generational personalities, and the messages that motivate each group.