Skilled workers of all ages are trading old fashioned dues-paying and ladder climbing for a new career path based on mobility. Generation Xers are leading the charge. Xers are moving from one new experience to the next, soaking up the flood of Self Building™ dividends that comes with each new experience: marketable skills, relationships with decision-makers, and creative challenges that allow Xers to collect proof of their ability to add value.

When the Self Building™ dividends slow down, a job is in danger of becoming just a job. Keep Xers focused on the job by making it the center stage of their growth and development:

1. Make training an obsession in your organization. Fill the workplace with training resources and give Xers the remote control.
2. Teach Xers to micromanage themselves. Help Xers carve up the job into bite size chunks so they can frame their roles in terms of tangible day-to-day results.
3. Move from six and twelve month reviews to FAST Feedback. FAST is frequent, accurate, specific and timely.
4. Reward people every day for stellar performance. You can't give people raises every day, but you can expand your repertoire of non-financial rewards and incentives.