Butting Heads With Your GenX Successor

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There are many reasons you might butt heads with your GenX successor.  Maybe you don’t see eye to eye on how to handle the financials, or they have a new ‘vision’ for your business and you don’t like it, or they just hold their writing pen the wrong way.  As Boomers retire, Generation X (and Millennials) are inheriting their businesses and they have a whole different outlook on life.

According to Retire Retirement by Tamara Erickson some common reasons Boomers and X’ers butt heads:

  • Boomers value individual achievement and recognition while Generation X focuses more on team success.
  • Boomers are competitive and operate on merit-based systems and use money and positions as markers of success.  On the contrary, Generation X does not care as much for competition.
  • Generally, Generation X demonstrates less commitment and less interest in working as hard as Boomers. 

Although you may think Generation X’s way of doing things is crazy -- and to you it may be -- they are the future. Building into your workplace more of the things that get GenX’ers motivated could increase productivity and improve relationships.

How can you motivate your GenX’ers today?