Provide your GenX employees with career training that makes them more marketable in the labor force. If you continually prepare them to leave, they just might stay. Thirty-one career skills for the workforce of the future:

LEARNING SKILLS
(1) Voracious learning. (2) Multiple focus. (3) Strategic learning (deciding what not to learn). (4) Information management. (5) Critical thinking (weighing evidence and making reasoned judgements). (6) Mastery of foreign languages and foreign cultures. (7) Technoliteracy. (8) Being the diligent protégé of a worthy mentor.

RELATIONSHIP SKILLS
(9) Approaching relationships in terms of what one has to offer, rather than what one wants and desires. (10) Seeking out the right decision-makers. (11) Total customer service mindset. (12) Trustworthiness. (13) Empathy. (14) Motivating others. (15) Facilitating the effectiveness of others. (16) Celebrating the success of others. (17) Being a mentor. (18) Effective listening and the ability to make one's self understood. (19) Being a great team player. (20) Negotiation and conflict resolution.

VALUE ADDING SKILLS
(21) Results focus. (22) Identifying opportunities to add value. (23) Seizing opportunities to add value. (24) Deal closing. (25) Strategic planning. (26) Going the extra mile. (27) Quality. (28) Integrity. (29) Monitoring feedback to measure change. (30) Flexibility. (31) Adaptability.