Creating a winning Team

Is it impossible? There seem to be a clash of generations, same rewards and recognition may not motivate all generations in the same and expected manner.

Is it impossible? There seem to be a clash of generations, same rewards and recognition may not motivate all generations in the same and expected manner.

As per Army War College : the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) of the world after the Cold War,

this concept is of individual recognition and rewards is gaining new relevance as the conflict among gen X, Y and Millennial and baby boomers as the conflicts are on the fore.

Tips :

- Empathy and kindness go a long way to create a winning team

- Making the Customer Service, productivity, Innovation and Individual attention, the core of operations, is a possible way out to handle and deal successfully with the multi gen teams.

- Motivate correctly? Use the best practices - how to motivate (as per Forbes)

- Timing : is everything, Recognize the efforts then when the efforts are on,

- Contextual - Recognition must match the context.

- Genuine : genuine recognition goes a long way.

- Value : Value your employee to get value :

- Contentions may arise as who is more motivated and by what ?

Millennial are much more motivated by appreciation, whereas,

Gen-X misses on this, though appreciation also adds value to motivation.

In my opinion: the recognition must be genuine and must be meant like that only. Besides everyone knows how is he being perceived (valued) within a team. So work to add value - monetary recognition and rewards may skew this notion of adding value, it may look appropriate also at times, but not always. Just need to remember and keep in mind employees are not just nice smelling and talking creatures walking around on 2 legs.

These very people do all the dirty work for you, which makes your shoe shine. These are the people who are putting the best of their life so that the organization will outlive them. Every ling employee will have his own aspirations, Gen-X or millennial in its own different way.

Comments and discussion around are always welcome.

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