The Reflection Of A Personal Effectiveness Game Plan

Personal Effectiveness Game Plan Throughout the semester we have covered a wide variety of topics concerning gender and generational areas of study. While there are specific areas of these topics where I am strong, there are also areas where I could use some improvement. Throughout this paper I will analyze my strengths and weaknesses as relates to the materials we have learned in this course about gender and generational information. This paper will serve as a roadmap for my future actions for improvement. To start off, I have several areas where I am strong when it comes to gender and generational topics we covered in class. One area that I am strong in is working alongside and communicating with the Baby Boomer generation both inside the workplace as well as in everyday life. The Boomer generation is my grandparent’s generation and in a way I believe that that is a major reason why I am able to communicate and work effectively with them; they remind me of my grandparents. My grandparents were constantly in my life growing up and they helped to raise me in a sense and taught me …show more content…
My parents belong to Generation X and in a way I believe this affects my relationship with Generation X coworkers. To explain, in a way I think Generation X’ers see my generation as “children” and their own kids are usually around our age. Therefore, they feel they have the right to boss us around, and tell us what to do. I believe my generation almost sees the Generation X’ers as parents because that is what they are trying to do a lot of the time, parent us at work. For this reason, I have always had a hard time with Generation X’ers in the workplace. They either ignore me, or try to boss me around and tell me what to do like a parent. In turn, I do not know how to treat them or react to the way they treat me so I end up either ignoring them, or listening to what they boss me around to do, and do