Values of each generation create strength

Notes:

• Generations vary by geography
• Older generations were taught feedback is when you’re doing something wrong
• Millennials / Gen Z were taught if your boss is not talking to you, you’re doing something wrong.

Avoid generalizations and stereotypes

Generation Z

• Born 2001 – 2015
• Will be the largest generation
• The future of: 2A,and communication, banking, shopping, learning, voting, working, investing 
• Savvy consumers, know what they want, know how to get it
• over saturated with media / require feedback
• Never known a world without high speed internet & cell phones
• Always had access to: Uber, Amazon, Netflix, GrubHub 
• Do not remember 9/11

Millennials 

• Born 1981 – 2000
• 71 million
• largest generation in the workforce
• The 9/11 Generation
• work in teams
• Taught that they could be shot at school
• Taught that the world is not a safe place
• grew up in a digital environment
• Never known a world without computers

Generation X

• Born 1965 – 1980
• 65 million
• Transition phase of written based knowledge to digital knowledge archives
• Remember being in school without computers
• Social problems were about drugs
• Average 7 career changes in their lifetime

Baby Boomers

• Born 1946 – 1964
• 74 million
• Largest generation – 77 million people
• First TV generation
• measure success in hours per week

Silent Generation

• Born 1927 – 1945
• 25 million
• Korean & Vietnam War generation
• Read newspapers

Greatest Generation

• Born 1901 – 1926
• Children of the WWI generation
• Young in the Great Depression
• Fighters in WWII
• Saved the world and then built a nation
• First generation of radio, TV and air flight
• They were the last generation that remembers life without airplanes, radio, and TV