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Does Your Service
Training Stick?

How to update your approach to appeal to Generation X and Y
By James Dunne

I knew that I was finally old when I muttered the words that I swore I would never say:

"Kids these days...they donıt know how good theyıve really got it!"

Regardless of whether you feel this way, or whether you sympathize with the plight of the so-called slacker generation, you must understand ONE thing: What you feel does not matter! Your focus need NOT be on how to change these post baby-boomers (aged 34 and younger), but rather, how to understand them.

Formerly in management, I have been a service staff trainer and Professor for the past five years. I have discovered that the traditional style of education is no longer effective. I say this after stumbling through my first couple of years, trying to be both the authority and the authoritarian.





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