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Motivating Employees: How to deal with

motivationally challenged younger workers

o you find it difficult company, the customer and — we had no shoes Heck, we
to motivate younger the wallet? Well, for starters, had no feet! We walked on our
workers? Have they grew up Now at least in nubs everywhere we went…”
Dyou noticed that their 40s, many of them are I admit, I’m taking it a
employees under 25 will quit managing the thirty-something bit far here I never walked to
their job to go on a ski trip? and twenty-something work, I spent most of my life in
They will choose pleasure and workforce and realizing that Florida (no hills, no snow) and
friends over work every time — these younger people cannot I do have both feet, but I think
actions that indicate that there be motivated the same way you know where I’m coming
may be a different work ethic they were I don’t know about from
in place What about people you, but I start thinking, “You How can we effectively
in their 30s? They seem to need know back in my day (I am motivate people who feel
more time off and value flexible now officially old enough to so differently than we do
schedules over money have had a day), we did what about their job? Wynn
Whatever happened to we had to do We ate dirt and Solutions did some research
dedicated, committed people we liked it; we walked to work, on how some organizations
who did what was right for the up hill, both ways, in the snow get amazing results from
their younger people
These top-performing
Looking for a reliable, organizations:

customized supply plan? •Understand that
these people grew up in
the most affluent time in

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to paid as much as anyone
who holds the same job
•Know workers in
their 20s will not respect
someone just because that
person is older or holds

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