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 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 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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By Sarah Newton* I recently saw this post and it really got me thinking about how we can manage Gen Y better by taking lessons from video games. And while, in my experience, I am not sure that Gen Y in the UK keeps score (as stated in the article), so to speak, I do [...]
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By Carol Phillips* One of the biggest myths about Millennials is that they are all digital natives, blogging and tweeting their way through life. The truth is a bit more nuanced. True, Millennials are some of the most avid USERS of mobile and Internet technology. The age of first cell phone is dropping rapidly and [...]
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Posted in Generation, Generation Y, Job on abr 13th, 2010
By Sarah Newton* I have noticed a rather worrying trend among young employees that I coach and that is their lack of resilience. Their inability to deal with the stress that can occur in a chaotic work environment, their inability to deal with negative comments from customers and colleagues and the worrying length of time [...]
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By Carol Phillips* I haven’t seen an iPad in person but I have watched a few video demos, like this one from Wired magazine at SXSW. I definitely want one, although not enough to be among the half a million people or so who have pre-ordered to the point that it is sold out. (Another nice scarcity [...]
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Posted in Generation, Generation Y, Marketing on mar 22nd, 2010
By Grace Boyle* If you know someone who lives in the United States, you should have probably already heard about the 2010 U.S. Census. I felt like a real adult opening the envelope, ready to “offer” my household information, ballpoint pen in hand. Looks like I’m a small percentage of eager participants in my generation [...]
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Posted in Family, Generation, Generation Y on jan 8th, 2010
Grace Boyle* I grew up listening to stories from my father, who against his will was sent to fight in Vietnam, grew up in the 60’s and 70’s, saw the fight for civil rights and often disagreed against conventionalism from his parents. During that time there was a large uproar for change and the generation [...]
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