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7 May 2024 · 2 min

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A younger worker explains why their generation needs more than participation trophies: they want specific feedback and clear explanations of why changes matter. Gen X managers, they say, give less positive reinforcement than millennial ones do.

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my generation, you think, oh well, they like the participation trophies. Like, that's the participation trophy generation. Um, but I think the difference for me is that I'm not looking— I think my feedback would be I need a little bit of reassurance from a Gen X to tell me, hey, you're doing a good job adapting, you're doing really well implementing these changes. Because it's so uncertain for me, I'm not looking for a good job for doing it, I'm looking for a good job staying on top of it. Yeah. So, I think where like the feedback would come from is just, don't give people participation trophies, but do give them like recognition when it's due. Because a lot of times people in my generation are making the changes happen. So, I think I understand like better explaining the why, because I think sometimes we just think it's so inherent, like, well, Of course, he understands why. Because we do think, oh, well, they're senior, they must know, they must see what I see. So, understanding that there's definitely a communication gap there, but I think at the end of the day, my feedback for the Gen X would be to compliment a little bit more, a little bit of positive reinforcement in the workplace. I don't often get that from my Gen X. Gen X superiors, but I do from my millennial superiors. So I think that's, that's the difference for me.