I recently received a question about how to manage employee expectations around promotions. You, as the leader, want to reward and motivate employees, but you also want them to maintain realistic expectations when it comes to pay and promotion. Not to mention, you certainly prefer when employees are more concerned with earning these bumps than expecting them.

With a range of generations in the workforce today comes a range of perspectives on the right way to handle this challenge.

Both managers and employees have roles to play in navigating this familiar dilemma, so I speak to each in this week's Two-Minute Tip.