How does each generation prefer to communicate?

Analyze the importance of managing a diverse workforce.

Student Success Criteria

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Scenario

You work for a company that has employees from each of the five generations: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Generation Z. Because there is a great deal of generational diversity in your company, your managers have sometimes struggled to effectively communicate with their teams. In order to help your colleagues, you decide to put together a part of a training plan to discuss the importance of managing a diverse workforce and provide guidance to managers.

Instructions

Create a training plan that:

• Researches and summarizes each of the five generations in the workforce:
• Traditionalists
• Baby Boomers
• Generation X
• Millennials
• Generation Z
• Identifies effective strategies for communicating with, motivating, and supporting a generationally diverse workforce.
• How does each generation prefer to communicate?
• How do you keep them engaged?
• Examines the benefits that companies have experienced employing multigenerational workforces and why these are important for organizational success.
• Analyzes potential communication and collaboration challenges that could occur among the different generations and why these are important to understand when managing a diverse workforce.
• Be sure the training plan displays proper grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence structure, and credible sources cited in APA format.