They are the product of over protective parents who have dedicated their lives to ensuring that their children never have a negative experience.
Make no mistake, millennials are coming to your office very soon, so how do managers integrate these coddled individuals into your workforce?Integrating someone new into an existing team is always challenging, and now managers have to integrate someone into their team who has a dramatically different work ethic than the rest of the team.
Given this information, how do managers cope?As most of us born into Generation x (1961-1981) tend to do, we adapt and overcome.
Effective communication is always an essential management skill, but it is critical in managing millennials in time of change, negotiation and conflict.Yes!
The issue of the student being late was making me crazy, and when I finally confronted him about his inability to respect that he is disturbing class for the other students by being late, his answer was that he was a Millennial and he will start class when he wants to.I was completely shocked.
He had no concept that he was disturbing class by being late.