Age has no boundaries – part one
Posted by admin in 3 Generations : 1 Workplace, Genera(lisa)tion Y, tags: ageless wisdom, baby boomers, Chaminade, Critchley, Gen X, Gen Y, Generation Gap, generational behaviours, generational interaction
Time and time again we see comments about age sterotypes, whether they be baby boomers (BB), Generation X, Y’ers or the teen youth of today. As we’ve said before these boundaries are becoming blurred. What we see are behaviours not age groups.
People tend to follow cycles or stages throughout their lives, some more than others; adapting, embracing and making changes as they go.
Generation classifications were discussed with author Robert K Critchley in ‘Ageless Wisdom’ (hrmonthly, Australia, June 2006, Chaminade):
“I think the terms are useful for understanding the differences between people. The most important thing is not to run your life by ‘I’m a Gen X and I must live this way’. Understand that people are thinking differently, because so often the generational myopia is such that we think everyone thinks like we do. There is value in understanding the way different generations think and act – understand but don’t try to typecast.”
Another way of looking at classifying talent was outlined in Generation Gap (hrmonthly, October 2005, Chaminade), considering four different categories for talent rather than those of age:
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