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Generation Y information to help managers succeed!
Generation Y information to help managers succeed!
Contact Information:
John Bishop
Accent On Success
St Louis, MO 63104 USA
314-664-6110
jbishop@AccentOnSuccess.com
John Bishop
Accent On Success
St Louis, MO 63104 USA
314-664-6110
jbishop@AccentOnSuccess.com
Articles About Generation Y Changes
1. Ten Facts About the Instant Everything Generation
Why are today’s new employees so turned off by rules, authority and discipline? Why do
they expect things without wanting to “pay their dues”?
To answer these questions you have to look at the world from their vantage point.
Read the entire article below
2. Are Your Managers Ready for Generation Y Employees?
Generation Y or the “Internet Generation” will dramatically change every aspect of your
business in the next five years! Change will be constant, rapid and revolutionary.
Want proof?
First, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is putting all of their 1,500 course on
the Internet – for FREE.
Read the entire article below
3. Generation Y and Revolutionary Change
Change will be rapid, constant and revolutionary.
We can’t stop it. At best, we can slow it down a little. But, change will be coming from
all directions and at speeds we have never seen before. Generation Y accepts high
speed change as obvious and the status quo as a relic. They don’t want to change
things simply for the sake of change, however they will investigate, challenge and
reinvent virtually everything.
Read the entire article below
Full Articles
1. Ten Facts About the Instant Everything Generation
Why are today’s teenagers so turned off by rules, authority and discipline? Why do
Generation Y kids expect things without wanting to “pay their dues”?
To answer these questions you have to look at the world from their vantage point. Think of all
the instant communication resources they have always at their disposal. Generation Y has
spent years perfecting their Instant Everything skills.
Here are some facts about the Instant Everything generation that parents, teachers and
managers should know about these bright, inquisitive and challenging young people.
Ten Facts About the Instant Everything Generation
1. I like the Internet, cell phones, personal Web pages, etc., because they
are attractive, exciting, action-oriented, multi-dimensional and FAST.
2. I will use instant communications, speed, flexibility and rapid decision-
making to make the most of each day.
3. On the Internet I can research anything and challenge the status quo on
everything.
4. I can develop my new ideas and have them validated immediately.
5. I get bored easily.
6. I’m in control. On the Internet I can decide what I want to look at, who I will communicate
with and at what time of day or night the activity will take place.
7. I can instantly explore exciting new places, things and ideas without ever leaving my
computer.
8. On the Internet I can learn from the brightest minds in the world without lectures, training
sessions and classrooms.
9. I can share my ideas with others instantly.
10. I like change and flexibility.
In essence adults are competing with the Internet and instant communications for
Generation Y's attention, and it’s not a fair competition. Simply put, their world moves faster
and in more directions than most adults’ world. Our challenge is to mentor them without
lectures; inspire them and show them how to turn their goals into action; and help them learn
“the ropes” but know they will use them differently than we did.
This Instant Everything generation will change our world in some exciting ways. Rapid and
revolutionary change will become the standard as more and more of these young people
take their rightful place in the world. Hold on! This is going to be exciting!
2. Are Your Managers Ready for Generation Y Employees?
Generation Y or the “Internet Generation” will dramatically change every aspect of your
business in the next five years!
Change will be constant, rapid and revolutionary. Want proof?
First, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is putting all of their 1,500 courses on the
Internet – for FREE. MIT believes that the “dissemination of knowledge and information can
open new doors to the powerful benefits of education for humanity around the world.” That
means students, educators and self-learners will be able to audit these courses when and
where they want.
Second, Bob Lutz, General Motors Vice Chairman, has a blog, http://fastlane.gmblogs.com, to
communicate directly with his customers. It is an invaluable way to get important information
out to the market. It is also a vehicle for timely and accurate feedback. Other GM executives
are setting up blogs to talk directly to and get information from their employees. By
comparison, Microsoft has over 1,500 customer and employee blogs.
Third, YouTube is an Internet overnight success story. It allows people to upload and share
videos over the Internet. To date they have 100 million videos on their site and receive
another 65,000 per day. The company was founded in February 2005, and was never
profitable. Yet, Google understood the potential of their technology and purchased the
company nineteen months later for $1.65 billion.
While Gen X employees understand Internet, multitasking and instant communications,
Generation Y members excels at use of these three tools, and they will use them to
transform business. They will challenge every aspect of the workplace.
How do the different generational employees look managers?
Boomers: The boss is not always right, but the boss is always the boss. I
will put in long hours to get ahead. If necessary, I will do so at
the expense of my family.
Generation X: The boss is not always right, but I’m not going to be here very
long. I watched my parent’s jobs be downsized or outsourced so
I don’t have the same loyalty to a company they did. I’m not
married to the company; I value my life outside of work.
Generation Y: The boss is not always right, but are they open to new ways to
do business? Events like 9/11 and the Columbine High School,
shooting have taught us that life can be fleeting. The Internet
has exposed us to new ways of approaching life and work. I
want to flexibility, to be valued for my ideas and my work and I
want time off to volunteer.
They are called Generation Y, as in “why,” because they are constantly questioning the status
quo. They are almost as large as the Boomer generation and are over 65% larger than the
Generation X group. In the next twenty-five years 80 million Boomers will be retiring. As the
Boomers retire, the Gen X employees will become the Gen Y’s managers. However,
because of their sheer size Generation Y will be the overwhelming influence in the workplace
for the next fifty years.
Generation Y fully embraces technology. Today’s twenty-year-old college graduate was only
five years old when the Internet was developed in 1992. They have always literally had the
world at their finger tips. They grew up with instant messaging, text messaging, cell phones,
iPods, PDAs, MySpace, YouTube, multitasking and blogging. They think, and act, in terms of
instant communications. While Gen X employees understood and used these vehicles,
Generation Y is totally immersed in them.
Baby Boomers changed the culture on civil rights, woman’s rights, and gay rights. Their
world was shaped by the Cold War. The members of Generation Y were born after the Civil
Rights Act was passed (1964), the gay rights movement started (1969), the first woman sat
on the U.S. Supreme Court (1975), and the Berlin Wall came down (1990). The struggles
many of us remember are accepted facts in their world. Generation Y individuals embrace
diversity as an accepted norm and until recently knew nothing about war. Their world has
always included diversity.
Each of us has memories of some recent tragic events: the Oklahoma bombing, the
Columbine High school shootings, the World Trade Center bombing, and three wars–Iraq,
Afghanistan and the War on Terror. If you were a thirteen to fifteen year old, how would these
events shape your thoughts about the future? In a practical way these Generation Y’s remain
optimistic.
Generation Y members are group-oriented, confident, goal-oriented and civic-minded. They
have a more worldly view than Generation X’ers. These new employees have been coddled
by their parents. As children they received trophies for simply participating on a team.
Parents told them were special and capable of doing anything. Their non-school activities
were scheduled (e.g., karate, soccer, etc.), and their parents were not afraid to call a teacher,
coach or Boy Scout leader if they did not think their child was being treated fairly.
Generation Y kids have been raised with instant communication, unrealistic feedback and
rapid decision making as the norm. They believe they have the world in the palm of their
hand. And, with their knowledge of today’s technology they do.
So what can your managers do to get ready for Generation Y employees?
Generation Y employees want to be heard and valued by their company when they start with
your company. They place a high value on family and flexibility and will volunteer their time to
causes they feel are important. They are fearless and not intimidated by titles or corporate
organizational charts.
They love variety and are not afraid of change. If they think they have a good suggestion they
will take ownership of the idea. And, they will not be afraid to take the idea up the corporate
ladder to be heard.
Successful companies must find ways to harness the new employee’s talents, integrate
them into the company and turn ideas into a competitive advantage. Progressive
companies understand that learning is a two-way street. Generation Y employees will
revolutionize internal and external communications. Companies have a lot to teach the Gen
Y’s, but they have a lot to learn from them also. That will be difficult in rigid, highly structured
companies.
Jack Welsh, former CEO of General Electric, stated that “…ebusiness knowledge is usually
inversely proportional to age and rank.” Hiring, challenging and retaining good employees
have always been the hallmark of successful companies.
Successful companies today must develop a culture of learning, sharing and embracing
change. They will employ two-way mentoring, blogging, new training platforms, and new
ways of hiring and promoting people.
Training Generation Y employees will change. Boring, all-day seminars will become less
frequent. Generation Y employees will text message their friends during those seminars.
They need the information in the seminar, but companies will have the training available in
different platforms and in smaller “bite-sized” portions. These training modules will be
downloadable to an employees’ Blackberry, iPod or computer. The employee will view the
sessions at home, or on a plane or listen to them in the car driving to an appointment.
This is an exciting and dynamic time for business! Change will be constant,
rapid and revolutionary.
Generation Y employees will change how we look at hiring, turnover, mentoring, performance
reviews, employee orientation, retention issues, and how we communicate with our
employees and customers. Are your managers ready for this new employee?
3. Generation Y and Revolutionary Change
Change will be rapid, constant and revolutionary.
Generation Y members are bright, insightful, fascinating, challenging and inquisitive young
adults who are ready to change the world. The question is, are we ready?
They look at the world much differently than most of us. And why shouldn’t they?
Generation Y (why) are currently between 13 and 27 years old and rival the Baby Boomer in
size. Born after the civil right, woman’s rights and gay rights movements, they view diversity
as an accepted norm. Their world has always included high-speed computers, the Internet,
cell phones, text messaging and instant communications.
Rapid change is the by-product of their instant communications world.
Generation Y’s world revolves around instant everything. They rely less on face-to-face
communications and more on cell phones, instant messaging and the Internet. They don’t
wait for answers. If they have a question or an idea, they can immediately share it with their
friends or do research on the Internet. In their world the answers to most of life’s questions
are only a couple of key strokes away.
Change will be rapid, constant and revolutionary. We can’t stop it. At best, we can slow it
down a little. But, change will be coming from all directions and at speeds we have never
seen before. Generation Y accepts high speed change as obvious and the status quo as a
relic. They don’t want to change things simply for the sake of change, however they will
investigate, challenge and reinvent virtually everything.
If rapid change is inevitable then how can we prepare for it? By changing our attitude toward it
and insuring that the changes make things better and not just faster.
Some ways to look at change:
1. Today’s change is tomorrow’s norm.
2. If you are a change oriented leader expect others to paint a bull’s eye on your back and
then shoot arrows at you.
3. Change is as good or as bad as you make it.
4. Substitute the word “growth” for “change.” It will revolutionize your perspective about new
things.
5. Tuli Kupferberg said, “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
6. If you can’t control the changing event, change how you react to it.
Generation Y will dramatically affect our world for the next forty years. Today’s young people
want mentors but they want a two-way relationship. Parents, teachers, religious leaders and
managers, you still hold the keys. You are their bridge from the status quo to the future.
They want your help and leadership; they do not want your roadblocks to change.
Instant communication savvy Generation Y members are the leaders to a vastly different
future. Hang on, these next few years will be fast, unpredictable and very exciting! Are you
ready?
Why are today’s new employees so turned off by rules, authority and discipline? Why do
they expect things without wanting to “pay their dues”?
To answer these questions you have to look at the world from their vantage point.
Read the entire article below
2. Are Your Managers Ready for Generation Y Employees?
Generation Y or the “Internet Generation” will dramatically change every aspect of your
business in the next five years! Change will be constant, rapid and revolutionary.
Want proof?
First, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is putting all of their 1,500 course on
the Internet – for FREE.
Read the entire article below
3. Generation Y and Revolutionary Change
Change will be rapid, constant and revolutionary.
We can’t stop it. At best, we can slow it down a little. But, change will be coming from
all directions and at speeds we have never seen before. Generation Y accepts high
speed change as obvious and the status quo as a relic. They don’t want to change
things simply for the sake of change, however they will investigate, challenge and
reinvent virtually everything.
Read the entire article below
Full Articles
1. Ten Facts About the Instant Everything Generation
Why are today’s teenagers so turned off by rules, authority and discipline? Why do
Generation Y kids expect things without wanting to “pay their dues”?
To answer these questions you have to look at the world from their vantage point. Think of all
the instant communication resources they have always at their disposal. Generation Y has
spent years perfecting their Instant Everything skills.
Here are some facts about the Instant Everything generation that parents, teachers and
managers should know about these bright, inquisitive and challenging young people.
Ten Facts About the Instant Everything Generation
1. I like the Internet, cell phones, personal Web pages, etc., because they
are attractive, exciting, action-oriented, multi-dimensional and FAST.
2. I will use instant communications, speed, flexibility and rapid decision-
making to make the most of each day.
3. On the Internet I can research anything and challenge the status quo on
everything.
4. I can develop my new ideas and have them validated immediately.
5. I get bored easily.
6. I’m in control. On the Internet I can decide what I want to look at, who I will communicate
with and at what time of day or night the activity will take place.
7. I can instantly explore exciting new places, things and ideas without ever leaving my
computer.
8. On the Internet I can learn from the brightest minds in the world without lectures, training
sessions and classrooms.
9. I can share my ideas with others instantly.
10. I like change and flexibility.
In essence adults are competing with the Internet and instant communications for
Generation Y's attention, and it’s not a fair competition. Simply put, their world moves faster
and in more directions than most adults’ world. Our challenge is to mentor them without
lectures; inspire them and show them how to turn their goals into action; and help them learn
“the ropes” but know they will use them differently than we did.
This Instant Everything generation will change our world in some exciting ways. Rapid and
revolutionary change will become the standard as more and more of these young people
take their rightful place in the world. Hold on! This is going to be exciting!
2. Are Your Managers Ready for Generation Y Employees?
Generation Y or the “Internet Generation” will dramatically change every aspect of your
business in the next five years!
Change will be constant, rapid and revolutionary. Want proof?
First, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is putting all of their 1,500 courses on the
Internet – for FREE. MIT believes that the “dissemination of knowledge and information can
open new doors to the powerful benefits of education for humanity around the world.” That
means students, educators and self-learners will be able to audit these courses when and
where they want.
Second, Bob Lutz, General Motors Vice Chairman, has a blog, http://fastlane.gmblogs.com, to
communicate directly with his customers. It is an invaluable way to get important information
out to the market. It is also a vehicle for timely and accurate feedback. Other GM executives
are setting up blogs to talk directly to and get information from their employees. By
comparison, Microsoft has over 1,500 customer and employee blogs.
Third, YouTube is an Internet overnight success story. It allows people to upload and share
videos over the Internet. To date they have 100 million videos on their site and receive
another 65,000 per day. The company was founded in February 2005, and was never
profitable. Yet, Google understood the potential of their technology and purchased the
company nineteen months later for $1.65 billion.
While Gen X employees understand Internet, multitasking and instant communications,
Generation Y members excels at use of these three tools, and they will use them to
transform business. They will challenge every aspect of the workplace.
How do the different generational employees look managers?
Boomers: The boss is not always right, but the boss is always the boss. I
will put in long hours to get ahead. If necessary, I will do so at
the expense of my family.
Generation X: The boss is not always right, but I’m not going to be here very
long. I watched my parent’s jobs be downsized or outsourced so
I don’t have the same loyalty to a company they did. I’m not
married to the company; I value my life outside of work.
Generation Y: The boss is not always right, but are they open to new ways to
do business? Events like 9/11 and the Columbine High School,
shooting have taught us that life can be fleeting. The Internet
has exposed us to new ways of approaching life and work. I
want to flexibility, to be valued for my ideas and my work and I
want time off to volunteer.
They are called Generation Y, as in “why,” because they are constantly questioning the status
quo. They are almost as large as the Boomer generation and are over 65% larger than the
Generation X group. In the next twenty-five years 80 million Boomers will be retiring. As the
Boomers retire, the Gen X employees will become the Gen Y’s managers. However,
because of their sheer size Generation Y will be the overwhelming influence in the workplace
for the next fifty years.
Generation Y fully embraces technology. Today’s twenty-year-old college graduate was only
five years old when the Internet was developed in 1992. They have always literally had the
world at their finger tips. They grew up with instant messaging, text messaging, cell phones,
iPods, PDAs, MySpace, YouTube, multitasking and blogging. They think, and act, in terms of
instant communications. While Gen X employees understood and used these vehicles,
Generation Y is totally immersed in them.
Baby Boomers changed the culture on civil rights, woman’s rights, and gay rights. Their
world was shaped by the Cold War. The members of Generation Y were born after the Civil
Rights Act was passed (1964), the gay rights movement started (1969), the first woman sat
on the U.S. Supreme Court (1975), and the Berlin Wall came down (1990). The struggles
many of us remember are accepted facts in their world. Generation Y individuals embrace
diversity as an accepted norm and until recently knew nothing about war. Their world has
always included diversity.
Each of us has memories of some recent tragic events: the Oklahoma bombing, the
Columbine High school shootings, the World Trade Center bombing, and three wars–Iraq,
Afghanistan and the War on Terror. If you were a thirteen to fifteen year old, how would these
events shape your thoughts about the future? In a practical way these Generation Y’s remain
optimistic.
Generation Y members are group-oriented, confident, goal-oriented and civic-minded. They
have a more worldly view than Generation X’ers. These new employees have been coddled
by their parents. As children they received trophies for simply participating on a team.
Parents told them were special and capable of doing anything. Their non-school activities
were scheduled (e.g., karate, soccer, etc.), and their parents were not afraid to call a teacher,
coach or Boy Scout leader if they did not think their child was being treated fairly.
Generation Y kids have been raised with instant communication, unrealistic feedback and
rapid decision making as the norm. They believe they have the world in the palm of their
hand. And, with their knowledge of today’s technology they do.
So what can your managers do to get ready for Generation Y employees?
Generation Y employees want to be heard and valued by their company when they start with
your company. They place a high value on family and flexibility and will volunteer their time to
causes they feel are important. They are fearless and not intimidated by titles or corporate
organizational charts.
They love variety and are not afraid of change. If they think they have a good suggestion they
will take ownership of the idea. And, they will not be afraid to take the idea up the corporate
ladder to be heard.
Successful companies must find ways to harness the new employee’s talents, integrate
them into the company and turn ideas into a competitive advantage. Progressive
companies understand that learning is a two-way street. Generation Y employees will
revolutionize internal and external communications. Companies have a lot to teach the Gen
Y’s, but they have a lot to learn from them also. That will be difficult in rigid, highly structured
companies.
Jack Welsh, former CEO of General Electric, stated that “…ebusiness knowledge is usually
inversely proportional to age and rank.” Hiring, challenging and retaining good employees
have always been the hallmark of successful companies.
Successful companies today must develop a culture of learning, sharing and embracing
change. They will employ two-way mentoring, blogging, new training platforms, and new
ways of hiring and promoting people.
Training Generation Y employees will change. Boring, all-day seminars will become less
frequent. Generation Y employees will text message their friends during those seminars.
They need the information in the seminar, but companies will have the training available in
different platforms and in smaller “bite-sized” portions. These training modules will be
downloadable to an employees’ Blackberry, iPod or computer. The employee will view the
sessions at home, or on a plane or listen to them in the car driving to an appointment.
This is an exciting and dynamic time for business! Change will be constant,
rapid and revolutionary.
Generation Y employees will change how we look at hiring, turnover, mentoring, performance
reviews, employee orientation, retention issues, and how we communicate with our
employees and customers. Are your managers ready for this new employee?
3. Generation Y and Revolutionary Change
Change will be rapid, constant and revolutionary.
Generation Y members are bright, insightful, fascinating, challenging and inquisitive young
adults who are ready to change the world. The question is, are we ready?
They look at the world much differently than most of us. And why shouldn’t they?
Generation Y (why) are currently between 13 and 27 years old and rival the Baby Boomer in
size. Born after the civil right, woman’s rights and gay rights movements, they view diversity
as an accepted norm. Their world has always included high-speed computers, the Internet,
cell phones, text messaging and instant communications.
Rapid change is the by-product of their instant communications world.
Generation Y’s world revolves around instant everything. They rely less on face-to-face
communications and more on cell phones, instant messaging and the Internet. They don’t
wait for answers. If they have a question or an idea, they can immediately share it with their
friends or do research on the Internet. In their world the answers to most of life’s questions
are only a couple of key strokes away.
Change will be rapid, constant and revolutionary. We can’t stop it. At best, we can slow it
down a little. But, change will be coming from all directions and at speeds we have never
seen before. Generation Y accepts high speed change as obvious and the status quo as a
relic. They don’t want to change things simply for the sake of change, however they will
investigate, challenge and reinvent virtually everything.
If rapid change is inevitable then how can we prepare for it? By changing our attitude toward it
and insuring that the changes make things better and not just faster.
Some ways to look at change:
1. Today’s change is tomorrow’s norm.
2. If you are a change oriented leader expect others to paint a bull’s eye on your back and
then shoot arrows at you.
3. Change is as good or as bad as you make it.
4. Substitute the word “growth” for “change.” It will revolutionize your perspective about new
things.
5. Tuli Kupferberg said, “When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.”
6. If you can’t control the changing event, change how you react to it.
Generation Y will dramatically affect our world for the next forty years. Today’s young people
want mentors but they want a two-way relationship. Parents, teachers, religious leaders and
managers, you still hold the keys. You are their bridge from the status quo to the future.
They want your help and leadership; they do not want your roadblocks to change.
Instant communication savvy Generation Y members are the leaders to a vastly different
future. Hang on, these next few years will be fast, unpredictable and very exciting! Are you
ready?
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Contact Information:
John Bishop
Accent On Success
St Louis, MO 63104 USA
314-664-6110
jbishop@AccentOnSuccess.com
John Bishop
Accent On Success
St Louis, MO 63104 USA
314-664-6110
jbishop@AccentOnSuccess.com
Contact Information:
John Bishop
Accent On Success
St Louis, MO 63104 USA
314-664-6110
jbishop@AccentOnSuccess.com
John Bishop
Accent On Success
St Louis, MO 63104 USA
314-664-6110
jbishop@AccentOnSuccess.com
Contact Information:
John Bishop
Accent On Success
St Louis, MO 63104 USA
314-664-6110
jbishop@AccentOnSuccess.com
John Bishop
Accent On Success
St Louis, MO 63104 USA
314-664-6110
jbishop@AccentOnSuccess.com
