Leading Generation Y

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Leading Generation Y

• Whats Important Now
• Conference
• May 21, 2008

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Ross Lamont

• Education BA Economics 78
• MA Leadership 07
• Work Experience 29 years, 16 as a manager
  (finance, business planning, business services,
  programming, materials management, community and
  government relations)
• Life Experiences politics, community, personal,
  sports

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What about you?

• Name
• What do you do?
• Why did you pick this workshop?
• What do you hope to get out of it?

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Agenda

• Who is Generation Y
• Characteristics of Generation Y
• What has shaped Generation Y
• A little about Leadership
• Hints for leading Generation Y

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Who are they

• Roughly those born between 1980 and 2000
• Also known as Millennials, echo boomers

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Characteristics of Generation Y

• Highly Educated
• Confident, optimistic, impatient, entitled
• Non Confirming self expression
• Masters of social networking
• Expect work / life balance
• Driven by self fulfillment
• Great multi-taskers

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Characteristics of Generation Y

• Global aware, well traveled
• Lack of trust of or commitment to traditional
  institutions and corporations
• Highly productive but high maintenance
• Accepting of diversity
• Short attention span
• Team orientation

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What Shaped Generation Y

• The first generation to totally grow up in a
  computer and cell phone technology environment.
• Digital Aliens 1925-1945 Traditional
• Digital Immigrants 1946-1964 Boomers
• Digital Adaptive 1965-1980 Generation X
• Digital Residents 1981-2000 Generation Y

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What Shaped Generation Y

• Growing up with Diversity
• Ethnic
• Gender
• Family Structure
• Sexual Orientation
• Point of View

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What Shaped Generation Y

• Small families
• Personal Attention
• Busy, organized schedule of clubs, sports, social
  activities
• Input into decision making
• Often peers or teacher to parents, adults
• Access to information and opinion

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What Shaped Generation Y

• World Events
• Berlin Wall fell in1986
• Political / religious tension in Middle East
• 9 / 11
• Fall of Enron
• Rise and fall of Dot.coms
• Instant media coverage from around the world
• Blogs, u-tube, face-book, Wikipedia

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A Little about Leadership

• Leadership has many diverse faces
• Not about personality
• Leadership can occur at high and low levels
• Leadership is situational
• Can be based on position or actions
• Thought to be natural but behaviours can be
  learned

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A Little about Leadership

• Common Characteristics of effective Leaders
  include
• Integrity
• A Vision
• Communication
• Respect for others
• Creates Loyalty

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Hints for Leading Generation Y

• Motivated by self fulfillment, not corporate
  goals
• Extrinsic motivation drives morale, Intrinsic
  motivation drives commitment
• Listen, really listen, then act
• Coach, not command (its about the relationship)
• Feedback and rewards, early and often
• Empowerment and engagement
• Support change, not manage it
• Develop goals not assign tasks

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Generation Y is not to be managed or fixed but
rather an opportunity to achieve much more
through empowerment and engagement.Be the
Mentor they are looking for.
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Thank You