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NewsOK.com: Your Business Coach – Managing Generation X

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Published: August 22, 2010 under Archived Coaching News

August 22, 2010 – NewsOK.com – Jill Nickerson – OK, USA

Members of Generation X, sandwiched between the Baby Boomers and the media-dominant Millennials, can often feel ignored and forgotten. Beyond the social implications, the question arises: Where exactly does Gen X fit into the workplace?

Generation X (born roughly between 1961 and 1981) has long been typecast as slightly angry and highly pessimistic, the main purveyors of the “I Can Do It All By Myself” attitude. Members of Gen X, sandwiched between the ever-talked-about Boomers and the media-dominant Millennials, can often feel ignored and forgotten, echoing an esteem many felt as “latchkey” kids in single-parent or dual-income households.

Beyond the social implications, the question arises: Where exactly does Gen X fit into the workplace? Read story.

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Billy C H Teoh on August 25, 2010

Has anyone done research or work in ‘segmenting’ and ‘profiling’ the demographic and psychographic ‘characteristics’ of Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, Millenials, etc., (from diverse racial, religious, cultural and geographical basis) for the coaching purpose?

Care to share?

Billy C H Teoh
Malaysia.

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