Managing the Millennials
Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce
2. Auflage Juni 2016
240 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
In this updated and expanded Second Edition of the popular guidebook Managing the Millennials, the powerhouse authorial team reexamines the differences between how different generations work today in businesses around the world, with insightful exploration into what makes the Millennial generation so different from the ones that came before. The authors reveal nine specific points of tension commonly arising from clashing value systems among generations and prescribe nine proven solutions to resolve conflict and build communication, nurture collaborative teams, and create long-lasting relationships among colleagues of every age. A wealth of informative tables and convenient end-of-chapter summaries make this an invaluable everyday reference to support you:
* Making the most informed decisions with up-to-date, research-based guidance on getting the most from twenty-something employees
* Executing solutions to the most common obstacles to younger workers engaging and learning from the people who manage them
* Enhancing your skills as a job coach with practical tips and hands-on tools for coaching Millennials, including concrete action steps for overcoming roadblocks
Complete with case studies of real managers and employees interacting in every area of business, enlightening analysis of performance and behavioral patterns across generations, and easy-to-use techniques you can use right away to improve your organization, Managing the Millennials, Second Edition gives you everything you need to inspire your entire workforce to new levels of productivity.
The Builders, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials--all make up workforces in every type of industry all over the world. The generational gaps are numerous and distinctly different between each age group, and Millennials have gotten a reputation for being particularly unique and often challenging. In this updated and expanded Second Edition of the popular guidebook Managing the Millennials, you'll see how Millennial traits are the same around the globe.
In fact, Millennials are more alike than any other generation before them due in large part to rapid advances in technology that let us share more experiences together. These same rapid advances are also redefining the fundamental ways businesses operate, and this revised edition includes the international perspective today's valuable leadership needs to attract and retain these high-performing workers with very different values and expectations. With fresh research and new real-world examples, the powerhouse authorial team reexamines the differences between how different generations work today in businesses around the world, with insightful exploration into what makes the Millennial generation so different from the ones that came before. The authors reveal nine specific points of tension commonly arising from clashing value systems among generations and prescribe nine proven solutions to resolve conflict and build communication, nurture collaborative teams, and create long-lasting relationships among colleagues of every age. A wealth of informative tables and convenient end-of-chapter summaries make this an invaluable everyday reference to support you:
* Making the most informed decisions with up-to-date, research-based guidance on getting the most from twenty-something employees
* Executing solutions to the most common obstacles to younger workers engaging and learning from the people who manage them
* Enhancing your skills as a job coach with practical tips and hands-on tools for coaching Millennials, including concrete action steps for overcoming roadblocks
Complete with case studies of real managers and employees interacting in every area of business, enlightening analysis of performance and behavioral patterns across generations, and easy-to-use techniques you can use right away to improve your organization, Managing the Millennials, Second Edition gives you everything you need to inspire your entire workforce to new levels of productivity.
Introduction Close Encounters with a Different Kind xix
PART I THE MILLENNIAL PHENOMENON 1
CHAPTER 1 The Millennials and You 3
The Generations at Work 4
What in the World Is Happening? 8
The Coming Job Gap 12
You're So Special 13
Bridging the Gap 15
CHAPTER 2 Aren't We All Just the Same? 17
So What? Isn't Every Generation the Same? 17
Who Gets to Do the Sense-Making and Set the Rules? 24
CHAPTER 3 The Effective Managers versus the Challenged Managers 27
Mind-Set 30
Following Up with Human Resources 33
CHAPTER 4 The Points of Tension between Managers and Millennials 35
Perceptual Positioning 37
The Consequence of Inexperience 40
PART II DISCOVER THE CORE COMPETENCIES FOR MANAGING TODAY'S WORKFORCE 53
CHAPTER 5 Be Flexible: When Letting Them Have It Their Way Makes Sense 55
Flexing with the Autonomous
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Work-Life Blending 56
The Bias of Experience 57
Psychological Contract 60
Learning from Our Success 61
Learning from Our Failure 62
Best Practice 62
CHAPTER 6 Create the Right Rewards: Rewarding the Right Things in the Right Ways 65
Incenting the Entitled
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Reward 66
The Bias of Experience 66
Rewarding the Right Way 68
Rewarding the Right Things 69
Keeping Them Informed 70
Learning from Our Success 71
In a Nutshell 73
CHAPTER 7 Put Their Imagination to Work: They Are at the Head of the Creative Class 75
Cultivating the Imaginative
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Self-Expression 76
The Bias of Experience 76
Creativity and Competitive Advantage 78
Managerial Best Practices 79
Let Them Know What Happened with Their Ideas 80
Let Them Have Fun 81
In a Nutshell 82
CHAPTER 8 Build a Relationship: First Them, Then You 85
Engaging the Self-Absorbed
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Attention 86
The Bias of Experience 88
Best Practices 88
So What Are Some Barriers to Engaging? 91
Something to Think About 95
The Transfer of Tacit Knowledge Will Not Happen without Building a Relationship 95
CHAPTER 9 Be Positive When Correcting: Fragile, Handle with Care 99
Disarming the Defensive
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Achievement 100
The Bias of Experience 103
Best Practices 104
Learning from Success 106
In a Nutshell 110
CHAPTER 10 Don't Take Things Personally: It Is Not Always about You 113
Self-Differentiating from the Abrasive
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Informality 114
The Bias of Experience 115
Self-Differentiating Is about You 117
Know Where They End and You Begin 118
Separateness and Togetherness 119
Know the Difference between Your Role and Your Person 119
Beware of Triangulating 119
Think about Your Presence 120
Confessions 121
In a Nutshell 122
CHAPTER 11 Show Them the Big Picture: The Big Picture Does Not Exist Until You Help Them See It 125
Broadening the Myopic
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Simplicity 126
The Bias of Experience 127
Learning from Success 128
Learning from Failures 128
Start with Something Easy 129
The Consequential Thinking Model 130
The Five Whys 131
Please, Do Share 132
In a Nutshell 134
CHAPTER 12 Include the Details: Ambiguity Is Their Kryptonite 137
Directing the Unfocused
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Multitasking 138
The Bias of Experience 139
Directing? I Thought They Wanted Autonomy 140
Giving Direction 141
Learning from Success 142
Learning from Our Failures 143
In a Nutshell 145
CHAPTER 13 Make It Matter to Them: They Want to Know "Why" before "What" 147
Motivating the Indifferent
The Millennial Intrinsic Value: Meaning 148
The Bias of Experience 150
Hierarchy of Capabilities 152
Learning from Success 155
Learning from Our Failures 156
In a Nutshell 157
PART III YOUR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE 159
CHAPTER 14 Building a Millennial-Friendly Culture 161
Identify Your All-Stars and Give Them a Platform 161
Involve Your Managers in the Conversation 163
Ask Millennials 163
Suspend Organizational Bias 164
Promote the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce 165
The Generational Rapport Inventory 166
CHAPTER 15 Mentoring Millennials 169
Challenges Millennials Face in the Workplace 171
Strategies for Overcoming Roadblocks at Work 172
The Seven Skills for Overcoming Roadblocks 177
In the End 179
Acknowledgments 181
Notes 183
Index 191
"If you're going to run a successful organization in the future, you'll have to learn how to manage the Millennial generation--that thundering herd of young people whose numbers exceed the Baby Boomers. They will push you and frustrate you, but they will help you win going forward. Managing the Millennials is a must-read for every leader who wants his or her organization to have a great future."
--Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager(r) and Leading at a Higher Level
"Our company has had the good fortune of becoming a trusted brand with the new generation. Without them, we would not exist. It would be easy for us to think that we 'know enough' because of our business. The truth is that we cannot afford to not build the same trust within our organization between the generations that make up the Quiksilver family. Managing the Millennials is a practical hands-on approach to understanding how generational tension gets created and what to do about it. I was fascinated by what I learned and excited about sharing it within our company."
--Robert McKnight, chairman, Quiksilver, Inc.
"Managing the Millennials has taught us how to harvest the creativity and energy of a new generation and inspire those of us who lead them."
--Bruce Ratner, chairman, Forest City Ratner Companies, New York
"With more than 32 million twenty-somethings in today's workforce, managers more than ever before need a clear road map for building bridges of communication and engagement between generations. Based on years of research and real-world business experience, Managing the Millennials is the first book to fuse the authors' cutting-edge concepts with a powerful and easy-to-use framework for putting their ideas into action. This is one book that I will wholeheartedly recommend to every business leader whose job includes managing people."
--Peter Economy, best-selling author of Managing For Dummies, and associate editor, Leader to Leader magazine
"This book is timely and practical for those facing the challenge of managing across generations. It takes a certain degree of maturity and perspective to be able to suspend one's own bias and engage others. Managers who practice the core competencies in this book will be better equipped to develop the people they lead."
--Laura Curnutt Santana, PhD, Lead Faculty Financial Services Sector/Senior Faculty Global Markets Americas, Center for Creative Leadership
MICK UKLEJA, PHD, is the founder and President of LeadershipTraQ, a leadership consulting firm. He co-authored Managing The Millennials, Who Are You? What Do You Want? and The Ethics Challenge. Mick is an adjunct professor in the MBA program at Concordia University and keynotes across the country on issues relating to generational diversity, leadership and personal productivity. He has been featured on Fox News, CNN, Fox Business Network, NBC and in numerous publications.
