Tag: Millennials

As a leader, your three primary responsivities are to your work group, to management, and to yourself. Successful leaders balance all three. Here are tips for managing your team up the generations. Respect Their Experience Stephen Covey’s fifth of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is: “Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood.” If […]

Generation Y Size and Influence Generation Y or Millennials make up 35% of the current workforce. Millennials want to make meaningful changes in the real-world, and they won’t stop until they’re heard. They are alpha-influencers who shape behavior and purchasing decisions. Seventy percent of millennials describe themselves as social activists. Fifty percent regularly donate time and […]

I’ll never forget when I first learned about Xennials. I finally found my place! Xennials are just like me. Xennials don’t quite fit in with their older sibling Generation Xers and they didn’t make the digital native group of Millennials. Xennials are a microgeneration born between 1977 and 1985. Also called the Oregon Trail Generation, […]

You’ve heard it. Perhaps you’ve even said it yourself. “Young people today have NO work ethic!” What does this one statement do? It degrades the value of an entire generation (or possibly two generations) in one sentence. A Brief History Lesson The Greatest Generation was once known as the Lost Generation. Boomers were once called […]