Lindsey Pollak

More effective, he said, is just pointing out mistakes and then offering a solution.

That sounds familiar to Lindsay Pollack, a multi-generational workforce expert and executive coach who says she coaches bosses to be as specific as possible instead of be more responsive.

For instance, she suggests, need to hear from you within an hour of receiving instruction.

At Mathematica, chief executor, Executive Paul Decker said the firm switched to more frequent check-ins in part because so many new entry-level hires were peppering supervisors with questions like, how am I doing and what does the next level require? At staff meetings, younger workers often questioned why things were done the way they had always been done.

Um, you mentioned NACE.

So at the NACE annual conference in June, Lindsey Pollak, who, um, has long been an expert and thought leader here in this space, she challenged us to go back to our teams a- uh, particularly those of us that are working in multi-generational teams, and have a conversation about what technology looked like when you started your career.

Uh-huh.

And it's a fascinating exercise, um, a- and as technology has become just completely infused in our everyday lives, we don't have the water cooler where new hires can listen and observe and hear how the work of the organization gets done.