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Talent Tip #11: Managing Millennials: Understanding Your Gen Y Employees

July 13, 2010

If you’re a manager born in the age of disco or before, you’ve probably had a few water cooler discussions about what it’s like to manage Millennials, or Gen Y employees. No doubt they require special care and feeding – just like an aquarium of saltwater fish or a vegan boyfriend with gluten allergies.

Many Millennials are products of dual-career families with Boomer parents who indulged them in part to make up for the time they didn’t spend together, which led to the sense of entitlement characteristic in Gen Y. This generation also witnessed their parents lose jobs in the waves of downsizings, which created the self-preservation attitude Millennials often exhibit in the workplace.

As off-putting as these traits may seem on the surface, knowing more about who the Millennials are and why they tick will help our movement better manage their ability to add value. They are tremendous multi-taskers with strong technology and networking skills. Gen Y workers are also team-players and risk-takers with the confidence to take on challenges other employees may fear. If you manage them correctly, Millennials can be a huge asset.

Here’s an article managers may find useful: Managing Millennials: Eleven Tips for Managing Millennials. And if you’ve got a bit more time, check out these books: Generation We and Millennials Rising.

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Claire Kittle Dixon

Claire Kittle Dixon
Executive Director
Claire has more than a decade of experience in the talent development field. She…
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Katelynn Barbosa
Director of Talent Engagement
Katelynn started her career in the Koch Associate Program and then litigated at the Institute for Justice…
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Katy Gambella
Director of Network Engagement
Katy began her career at the Institute for Humane Studies and later joined the Cato Institute…
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Stephanie Keaveney
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Lydia Ocampo
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Lydia started her career with Young Americans for Liberty. During her time with YAL…
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Talent Market’s mission is to promote liberty by providing talent for critical roles within the free-market nonprofit sector.

We provide free consulting and recruiting services to free-market think tanks, policy organizations, research centers, and capacity building institutions dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government and free enterprise. (We do not work in politics, nor do we work with organizations that address social issues.) Talent Market believes that the road to prosperity is paved with freedom and that the success of our movement hinges on the talent that will take us there.

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