For the 2nd week in a row I received a Google Alert concerning an article on Millennials and Boomers in the workplace. It is titled, "How Millennials can fit into a Boomer workplace that doesn’t automatically think they’re brilliant". The article from the Toronto Star featured comments from Jim Finkelstein, author of Fuse, Making Sense of the New Co-generational Workplace. Finkelstein, like me, is a Boomer who is dealing with the issues of co-generational workers. His approach is to mold the entire management function to accommodate the differences between generations. This includes leadership, training, compensation, performance reviews, communication, and change management. To get a feeling for his message, check out the following video:
I find it comforting and encouraging that there is a successful consultant in San Diego that has a similar perspective to mine. While Finkelstein focuses on all the generations and all functions my approach is to focus on Boomers and Millennials considering how large these 2 groups are in the workplace and that through these 2 groups I can make my pitch that the Millennials are what they are as an outcome of how we Boomers raised them, the boomer-rang effect. I ordered his book and probably will reference his work frequently in my forthcoming book.
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