By Sarah Newton I do think when it comes to managing Gen Y we are missing a trick. We talk a lot about how Generation Y are good at asking for what they want and fantastic and speaking up, putting their work-life balance at the centre of what they do, all of which I think [...]
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By Carol Phillips* Financial services are waking up to the potential of Gen Y consumers. Millennials may not have a lot of money now, but they are determined to pay down their debt and conserve resources for the future. Coming of age in an era of massive financial uncertainty, they may even come to be [...]
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By Sarah Newton As England comes home defeated from the World Cup, it becomes so obvious that there is lack of good talent coming up through the ranks of sport in the UK and it seems that this skill shortage is hitting hard. My eyes were recently drawn to an article in Construction Manager (my [...]
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By Sarah Newton This is a post that I have wanted to write for so long and no, I haven’t been procrastinating, I just needed to get an inside ticket, so to speak. In the UK there are a few amazing companies that have been started by Gen X ( of Gen Jones for those [...]
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By Carol Phillips* The Internet is a modern day three ring circus: there’s something cool going on everywhere you look. According to Comscore, 45% of all page transitions are ‘link following’. Every web page offers multiple enticements to move on. To create interest, you must say something worth staying with, in other words ‘relevant’. Keeping [...]
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By Sarah Newton There has been little talk up to now about Gen Z, but I can see a few things coming up through the ranks. A recent post has claimed that they are more like Gen Y than Gen Y. Saying that, they are more connected and more comfortable with technology – well of [...]
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By Carol Phillips* Nearly 20 years ago, William Strauss and Neil Howe wrote a book that theorized a 22 year generational cycle based on repeating generational archetypes called simply “Generations“. They called these cycles ‘turnings’. Children raised during a particular Turning share similar historical and cultural experiences, which results in their being like each other, [...]
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By Sarah Newton As you may or may not know, as I write this the UK is going through a political stalemate, with no stable government and all the parties trying to decide if and how they will form a government. The UK look on in disbelief, not quite knowing what to do. (We now [...]
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By Sarah Newton Generation Y employees are always being discussed and yet again, more research has the papers saying yes, they do have a sense of entitlement. There is a post that says: “Gen Y workers get a bad rap in the workplace, with many a geezer complaining that their work ethic is less developed [...]
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Posted in Generation, Generation Y, Millennial on mai 13th, 2010
By Carol Phillips* “I don’t read a lot, I never have. I was happy when the movie ‘Where the Wild things Are’ came out, ’cause that’s the first movie I’ve ever been qualified to say that the book was better than the movie.” — Tony Grayson, High School Senior, Oak Park, IL As a professor, [...]
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