by Chris | Feb 14, 2019 | Generational Cross Communication, Generations
Millennials were born from 1980ish-2000. We are still watching their every move. But in a word, you could sum up their communication method: Screens. These babies grew up with not just a television screen, but a with a plethora of screens in their face. Their world is...
by Chris | Feb 13, 2019 | Generational Cross Communication, Generations
It’s the 1980’s. All across America, latchkey kids in single-parent homes let themselves into an empty house after school. They head directly to the landline phone, the cordless one as big as their shoe, with push buttons because, well…rotary phones...
by Chris | Feb 12, 2019 | Generational Cross Communication, love, Mentoring
I would sit by the phone for hours. I might do my nails or condition my hair, pretend to read a book, but mostly I was guarding the phone. I would fight my sister tooth and nail to keep that hot pink rotary phone in my room cradled… just in case HE might call. That...
by Chris | Feb 11, 2019 | Generational Cross Communication, love, Mentoring
Part of the intrigue of a good Jane Austen novel is their method of communication. Unless you were face to face, communication was s-l-o-w. Sending a letter by mail or courier was the only way to extend information, personal or professional. I picture two characters...
by Chris | Sep 17, 2018 | Apps, Generational Cross Communication, Millennials
Most millennials grew up with an array of apps (applications) on the screen in front of their face for hours of the day. First televisions, then computers, tablets and mobile phones. They are native screen users, while the older generations are immigrants to the tech...
by Chris | Sep 3, 2018 | Generational Cross Communication
Traditionalists (born before 1941) The mega-funerals of two greats-in-their-own-way, royalty-in-their-own-right of the Traditonalist Generation are broadcast for the world a day apart. We mourn and pay our last...
