Managing Gen Y

Last week I listened in on an online meeting all about Gen Y in the workplace. It was a very informative meeting talking about all the uniqueness and quarks that make up Gen Y. A link was given to a website that lists of the 10 ways that Generation Y will change the workplace. Check [...]

The reason why Gen Y act the way they do in the workplace is because of the way they were raised. Our rapid, fast paced, “go, go, go” attitude can all be attributed to our upbringing. Growing up I was constantly doing extra-curricular activities while attending school and then later in life; working. I was [...]

Being part of the Y Generation I see our uniqueness as being normal, our differences as being similarities and our way of life as being the norm. I am constantly surrounded by fellow Gen Y’ers that I don’t see the big picture and how we really do differ from the rest of the generations; especially [...]

I was interviewed this week by a group of Gen Y interns. They are interning for the Center for Women in Enterprise and on their own they decided to have a summer project that all of them could work on. The project is to interview women business owners who are clients of the Center and [...]

I just returned from a women business owners conference in San Francisco. While there we launched a new product which is a self-study/training program for managers called Managing Gen Y. The Gen Y population is currently between the ages of 10 and 30. As they have come into the workplace, managers have discovered that they [...]