I'm especially interested in your comment since I just finished co-authoring a program: “Multi-Generations at Work,” and have spent many hours interviewing Millennials and Xers but did not give them the Birkman. I’m green with envy that you get to see the survey results for Millennials so you are able to do your own front line research. I’ve not been able to administer the Birkman to many Millennials or to the younger Gen-x ers. Most of the people with whom I work (Birkman-wise) have been in the work force for 20 years or more.
What I understood from your posting is that you think many Millennials and Xers have low CA scores because they are frustrated with Baby Boomer values and corporate life in general? Those are good points. Pls let me know if I’m projecting my own “stuff” on to what you wrote. I’m sometimes guilty of that.
As an aside, based on what I learned from interviewing Millennails and Xers for the program, I found the Xers much less tolerant of Baby Boomers than Millennials. However, the Millinnials in my study didn’t agree with “how” Baby Boomers “do and/or distribute” the work. Most seemed to think that their generation knew faster and more efficient ways to complete most every task and if asked would share this opinion eagerly. Is this what you’re finding too?
Jean Maslanka Kelley
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