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Company Excellence through Matching in Leadership

Off to self-reflection!

Use the tips and impulses for dealing with the red employee to
determine strategies for dealing with the other types. The
following applies in principle:

• Dealing with the yellow employee: Give him room to develop his
creative-innovative potential and try to build a relationship.
• Dealing with the green employee: Try to gain his trust and
overcome his mistrust.
• Dealing with the blue employee: Praise his expert knowledge
and give him tasks to think through thoroughly.

Generational leadership

In order to match, it is useful to consider the generational affiliation
of an employee. A differentiation is made between:

• the baby boomers who saw the light of day before 1964,
• Generation X, which includes those born between 1965 and
1980,
• Generation Y (Millennials), whose members were born
between 1981 and 1995 and include digital natives who have
grown up with the Internet, smartphones, Facebook, Twitter,
etc., and more recently

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