How to Get the Positives Out of a Multigenerational Workforce

A multigenerational workforce can collaborate on innovative ideas, reports Forbes . Ensuring such cooperation requires entrenching a process that is consistently applied to all workers. This process should focus on how people meet and plan for their careers, so their ultimate career plan is personalized between the employee and their managers. Also recommended is adopting millennials' openness to be flexible in their job roles, and their skepticism that leadership can answer every challenge. All employees should value conflict irrespective of differences due to generation, age, socioeconomic status, or corporate position. The objective should be to forge connections and alignment, and the safer employees feel about discussing their differences, the more it can drive creativity and wider points of view. "Treat people metrics with the same priority as finance and customer metrics if you want to get the most out of having a multigenerational workplace," suggests Peakon co-founder Kasper Hulthin.