Mom-e-Preneurs | Managing Millennials | S1 E19

26/08/2018 56 min Temporada 1 Episodio 19
Mom-e-Preneurs | Managing Millennials | S1 E19

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The millennials joining your workforce are employees born between 1980 and 2000; or 1989 and 1999, depending on the source. Unlike the Gen-Xers and the Baby Boomers, the millennials have developed work characteristics and tendencies from doting helicopter parents. "The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority, they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise." This quote may read like an older worker talking about Millennials, but it's actually attributed to Socrates over 2,000 years ago. The quote echoes the conventional wisdom about millennials in the workplace: they are lazy, narcissistic, entitled, job hoppers it is said. If that is indeed the case, how do we manage them? Let's explore!