Microsoft Dynamics for Generation X,Y, and Z: To boost skills, training must adapt

One recent Sunday in 2019, realized it had been almost 20 years since I delivered my first classroom training. Attending classroom training was the primary learning channel when I was a young man, where I learned about accounting, using Navision software, and develop in different programming languages. I remember that my first Navision training took three months.

Since then, a lot of things have changed. Microsoft bought Navision, and instead of 4 topics we now deal with a dozen different technologies, as well as multiple products and integration options. People are almost always online, and big brother (who goes by Alexa, Siri, Cortana, so maybe more of a sister) seems more like a best friend.

Today, several very different generations are living on this planet with names like Baby Boomers and Gen X, Y, and Z. While the Baby Boomers (1946-1964) grew up during the cold war and saw the moon landing live on television, Gen X (1965-1979) grow up as “digital immigrants” with the first public personal computer and email communication.

Gen Y (1980-1995), impressed by gaming consoles, social media, and smartphones, continued this progress, and they became the digital natives. From then on, life didn’t happen only at home. It was and is everywhere. You exist if you are online. 

Besides challenges like climate crisis, WikiLeaks, and whistleblowers, Gen Y must also master their lives. Yes, every generation must do that, but today's world provides them with so many more possibilities, and a lot more will come.

High value professional skills today are changing faster than ever, and Gen Z (1995-2010) is keen to learn them. According to a LinkedIn Learning