Know About "Ages and Stages of People"

Ages and Stages

This article shares about words, phrases, meaning and connections with people and age. Understanding the characteristics of each generation will help us to establish personal or official relationship in the harmonious way. Understanding helps us in team productivity and good team spirit.

Let’s start with the various names that are applied to different generations. A Baby Boomer generation  is someone who was born during the baby boom (=large increase in the number of babies) that followed the Second World War. The dates for this generation are approximately 1946 to 1964. Baby Boomer Generation -  I (1940s-1950s)

Baby Boomer Generation -  II (1950s-1960s)

Generation X (1960s-1980s)

GenX enjoy receiving instant feedback/advice and are most comfortable giving feedback/advice to others. GenX’shave pragmatic approach to getting things done. They desire to include an element of fun in both their personal and professional lives.  GenX mostly lack a sense of Job loyalty and they feel the need to take care of their own needs over those of their employer.  Rather than understanding their career growth path by staying in a job, GenX will begin sending their resumes to secure another job.  GenX dislike authority and they prefer to have responsibility and flexibility in their job. They like to be introspected and are open to receive any feedback on their performance. GenX enjoy learning new skills and prefer to have supervisors supply them. But, GenX like to have the freedom to derive their own strategy to get the desired results.  Mentors of GenX will do best by providing continuous feedback and suggestions while giving them the opportunity to figure how they’ll approach a growth path on their own.

Generation Y (1980s-2000th)

The millennial or Generation Y – are the people who were born in the years between the early 1980s and 2000. (A recent coinage parennial refers to a parent who is a member of the millennial generation.)  GenY students are individualistic, innovative, creative, celebrators of diversity, multi-taskers, and like to write their own rules.  They appreciate a structured, supportive learning environment with personalized learning assignments and interactive relationships with their teachers. They view their teachers to be facilitators who can guide, coach and mentor them and not advice them. GenY’slearnvery effectively when they work as a team rather than being isolated individuals, they also prefer their teachers to encourage, support, guide and groom them. GenY are highly capable to balance their study work and personal lives.  They are not willing to commit to studies requiring rote learning for long hours, evening, or weekend home-works. But at the same time they are very happy to learn things practically by doing projects, artwork or anything that involves practice based learning. This may seem to have a lack of commitment to learning to those who have given their heart and soul towards education and learning, but GenYdo value learning and its achievement for building their career and lives, and are also confident in their abilities to produce within the confines of a regular learning week. GenYlooks to work in meaningful, practicallearning tasks where they can make an overall contribution to the task on hand at the same time feeling like they are really helping them meet their overall learning objectives and goals.GenY are serious in their learning only if it convinces them that the learning is going to be of practical use to their lives.

Generation Z (2000th-2010th)

The generation coming after the millennials is sometimes called Generation Z (GenZ) (informally Gen Z). These are people born between approximately 1995 and 2005. People from this generation have sometimes been called linksters, reflecting the fact that they have been linked into technology all – or most – of their lives. GenZ is comfortable with and even dependent on technology, having grown up in a digital world where technology was ever-present. This generation is constantly multitasking with a variety of online products and sophisticated electronic devices, and appreciates simple, interactive designs. They are more socially responsible; due to greater access to a large online information pool they are more acutely aware of modern day challenges such as terrorism and climate change. This generation is always connected, communicating through various social networking channels, often across countries and cultures that significantly influence their decision process. This generation prefer to learn with the digital approach and find it easiest to learn from the Internet, very few students like a combined learning from print and online; and hardly few students would like to learn from text books as their preferred way of learning. GenZ values constant connectivity with peers through the Internet, instant/text messaging, mobile phones and social networking sites. These peers greatly influence their decisions and provide a broader exposure to cultures, languages, and ideas.

Generation Alpha (2010th-2020th)

Two related phrases with age implications are digital kids and digital immigrant. A digital native is a person who grew up using digital technology, computers, etc. and is therefore very familiar with them. In contrast, the older digital immigrant grew up in an era without digital technology and has had to learn how to use it as an adult.