I recently spoke for a student leadership conference in Nanaimo BC- a tough audience! All Gen Y’s, all focused on their future, getting ahead and making a difference. This is a demographic that has the excitement for the future that we all start out with but for many Gen X and Zoomers we got lost [...]
It doesn’t matter which generation we are what matters is that each of us is leading change. We are no longer ‘managing’ change and we all know the demographic differences between the generations. It is time to focus on strategies and solutions that we can use to move forward and lead change. A Gen Y [...]
As many organizations focus on recruiting more Gen Y workers to their industries there are some observations being made by leaders about the best work environment to attract Gen Y. What we already know about Gen Y is that they are highly skilled with technology, that they prefer social work environments, that they want [...]
I am often asked when I present data and research on generations in the workplace if the Gen Y phenomena is worldwide. The answer is emphatically “yes”, recently China has expressed concern that because of their one child rule they have inadvertently created a worker shortage. The baby boomer factory workers are retiring [...]
