TrainingBriefs® Generational Communication Barriers

New Micro-Learning! Workplaces across the country are adjusting to a new reality. Baby Boomers are remaining as active workforce participants. Meanwhile, the first members of Generation Z, roughly defined as those born since the mid-nineties, will soon be beginning their careers and will make up a large share of the labor market soon. Due to communication differences among generations, communication styles can often be a problem.

Generational differences influence our views about authority, position, equality and hierarchy. When miscommunication is not easily resolved, there may be more going on than what we are saying.