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Seven Ways to Bring Your Xers on-board
1) Treat individuals with the respect that you would give the boss!
Xers share the entrepreneurial mindset, but it needs to be developed.
2) Simplify the company, and share information digitally.
Xers need fast responses and the information to act. They don't like to have to manage multiple layers of managers it wastes their time and squanders their talent.
3) Create teams around projects, and keep them focused.
Xers have short attention spans; to keep them engaged they need to feel a hub of communication.
4) Coach individuals in manager management.
Xers will develop as people, as they learn to listen and appreciate others. Generation Xers will benefit from mentors who can help to rise above the office politics and competitive power-plays that drives the previous generation of employees.
5) Trust your systems and your staff
For the Xers, their work is the most important in the company. Keep yourself informed, and show interest but let the Xer manage the details.
6) Encourage creativity
Use your Xers as a 'corporate brain'; second them into looking at issues beyond their normal areas of expertise. This exchange of ideas will benefit everybody involved. In this way new ideas will be introduced into the company, and the Xer will learn new concepts to bring back into their daily work.
7) Acknowledge achievement at individual and group levels
Create projects where individuals may shine, but are more likely to do so through teamwork, than individual effort. ...