Decades of Differences: Making It Work

Their Need for Feedback

Another potential for cosmic clash is Gen Y’s need for feedback. The Boomers have put systems in place for annual, bi-annual, or quarterly performance feedback. These are great systems with expensive technology and years and years of work of honing down the process to a science. The Gen Xers have grudgingly submitted to this painful scheduled experience, but now Gen Yers are entering the scene and they don’t want the scheduled feedback; instead, they want constant feedback. By constant, we mean constant. One of Hagemann’s Gen Y children brought home straight As at Christmas and by January 20^th said she was no longer a straight A student because she had a B in Communication Arts. Hagemann explained to her daughter that ...