“The single best predictor of people’s success at work, regardless of generation, is the quality of their bosses,” says Melissa Nightingale, co-founder of the Law Signal Group, a management training firm. “The boss is looking at onboarding, feedback, career growth, etc. If the boss can’t do those things, they’re dead.”
Still, when the old boss leaves and the new one arrives, it creates an opportunity to think again. Workers who benefit from leaving the office early for school pick-up can say so. Employees who want more feedback can ask for it. There is an opportunity to look at the way things have been done and ask “why?”.
“Many experts give the impression that you put people in boxes based on their year of birth, but what I want people to understand is that generation is a clue and a It’s not a box,” he said. “Just because you were born in a certain year doesn’t mean someone knows everything about you.”
Generations change as they grow up. For years, Gen X seemed to be defined by an uncomfortable sense of purposelessness. The character played by Winona Ryder in Reality Bites said: “I was going to be something by the time I was 23.” For many, the anxiety is fading. Give confidence in the workplace. they became something
When Twila Brooks, 48, started her career as an assistant buyer at former department store chain Robinsons May, she had to show up at the office before her boss arrived and stay until he left. I reminisced. She ran through traffic in Los Angeles before 8 a.m., terrified of disappointing her manager. Because, in her words, she “was what it took to be successful.”
Last year, Brooks quit his executive position at Walmart to start his own marketing firm. Currently she doesn’t have an office, she decides when and where she works. “I’m pretty flexible with my schedule,” she said. “Because that’s my schedule.”
