Everything you need to harness Millennial potential
Managing Millennials For Dummies is the field guide to people-management in the modern workplace. Packed with insight, advice, personal anecdotes, and practical guidance, this book shows you how to manage your Millennial workers and teach them how to manage themselves. You'll learn just what makes them tick--they're definitely not the workers of yesteryear--and how to uncover the deeply inspirational talent they have hiding not far below the surface. Best practices and proven strategies from Google, Netflix, LinkedIn, and other top employers provide real-world models for effective management, and new research on first-wave versus second-wave Millennials helps you parse the difference between your new hires and more experienced workers. You'll learn why flex time, social media, dress code, and organizational structure are shifting, and answer the all-important question: why won't they use the phone?
Millennials are the product of a different time, with different values, different motivations, and different wants--and in the U.S., they now make up the majority of the workforce. This book shows you how to bring out their best and discover just how much they're really capable of.
* Learn how Millennials are changing the way work gets done
* Understand new motivations, attitudes, values, and drive
* Recruit, motivate, engage, and retain incredible emerging talent
* Discover the keys to optimal Millennial management
The pop culture narrative would have us believe that Millennials are entitled, lazy, spoiled brats--but the that couldn't be further from the truth. They are the generation of change: highly adaptive, bright, and quick to take on a challenge. Like any generation of workers, performance lies in management--if you're not getting what you need from your Millennials, it's time to learn how to lead them the way they need to be led. Managing Millennials For Dummies is your handbook for allowing them to exceed your expectations.
Autorentext
Hannah L. Ubl is the Research Director at BridgeWorks and transforms data into stories for the masses. Lisa X. Walden is the Communications Director at BridgeWorks where she delivers compelling, breakthrough generational content. Debra Arbit is CEO of BridgeWorks: a generational consulting company (www.generations.com).
Zusammenfassung
Everything you need to harness Millennial potential
Managing Millennials For Dummies is the field guide to people-management in the modern workplace. Packed with insight, advice, personal anecdotes, and practical guidance, this book shows you how to manage your Millennial workers and teach them how to manage themselves. You'll learn just what makes them tickthey're definitely not the workers of yesteryearand how to uncover the deeply inspirational talent they have hiding not far below the surface. Best practices and proven strategies from Google, Netflix, LinkedIn, and other top employers provide real-world models for effective management, and new research on first-wave versus second-wave Millennials helps you parse the difference between your new hires and more experienced workers. You'll learn why flex time, social media, dress code, and organizational structure are shifting, and answer the all-important question: why won't they use the phone?
Millennials are the product of a different time, with different values, different motivations, and different wantsand in the U.S., they now make up the majority of the workforce. This book shows you how to bring out their best and discover just how much they're really capable of.
- Learn how Millennials are changing the way work gets done
- Understand new motivations, attitudes, values, and drive
- Recruit, motivate, engage, and retain incredible emerging talent
- Discover the keys to optimal Millennial management
The pop culture narrative would have us believe that Millennials are entitled, lazy, spoiled bratsbut the that couldn't be further from the truth. They are the generation of change: highly adaptive, bright, and quick to take on a challenge. Like any generation of workers, performance lies in managementif you're not getting what you need from your Millennials, it's time to learn how to lead them the way they need to be led. Managing Millennials For Dummies is your handbook for allowing them to exceed your expectations.
Inhalt
Introduction 1
About This Book 2
Foolish Assumptions 3
Conventions Used in This Book 3
Icons Used in This Book 3
Beyond the Book 4
Where to Go from Here 4
Part 1: Getting Started with Managing Millennials 7
Chapter 1: Confronting the Millennial Management Challenge 9
Pinpointing Millennials on the Generational Timeline 10
Spotting the Coming Sea of Change in the Workforce 14
Anticipating the silver tsunami: Baby Boomer retirement 14
Forecasting the perfect storm of Gen X 15
Tracking the tidal wave of Millennials in the workforce 17
Anticipating Gen Edgers on the horizon 18
Getting Grounded in Millennials 101 18
Identifying common traits 19
Identifying common values 21
Gaining insight into what Millennials think of themselves 21
Steering clear of stereotypes 22
Combating Millennial fatigue 24
Recognizing that not all Millennials are the same 24
Differentiating a bad employee from a Millennial 25
Identifying and Navigating Generational Clash Points 26
Discovering What Managers Love About Their Millennials 27
Paving the Path to the Workforce of the Future 28
Chapter 2: Harnessing Generational Theory to Guide Your Management Practice 31
Wrapping Your Brain around the Generations Topic 32
Divvying up what the gen topic is and isn't 32
Grasping the essential tenants 33
Classifying the different generations 35
Linking generations to events and conditions 36
Overcoming the Yea, Buts . 39
Comparing two key perspectives: Sociology versus psychology 40
Contrasting the concepts of life stage and generations 41
Understanding that the exception proves the rule 43
Differentiating between stereotyping and recognizing patterns 44
Taking the negative to a positive 45
Using Generational Theory to Build a Better Workplace 46
Impacting the bottom line 46
Turning the what into so what 48
Chapter 3: Breaking into the Millennial Mind 49
Viewing Millennials as Whole Beings 50
Differing depictions of Millennials 50
Finding the why behind the what 51
Why You Are Who You Are: Taking a Look at the Formative Years 52
Uncovering the impact of technology 54
Dissecting the upgrade cycle generation 61
Tracking the influence of social media: from Friendster to Snapchat 65
Checking Out the Messages that Mold Millennials 71
Gaining insight into the effects of the self-esteem movement 71
Getting behind the idea that there truly is no I in team 75
Globalization: Understanding a generation that knows no borders 77
Feeling the impact of homeland violence 79
Reeling from the economic roller coaster 81
Exploring Millennial Values 83
Breaking the Mold: Rejecting Millennial Stereotypes 84
Chapter 4: Discovering How Millennials Differ from Boomers and Gen Xers 87
Breaking into the Baby Boomer Mind 88
Getting the 411 on Boomers 88
Exploring where Baby Boomers came from (and how it compares to Millennials) 90
Discovering Baby Boomer workplace traits and w…