Tag Archives: Generation Y

Company Security meets Managing Millennials

Third Prize: A self-sustaining system for monitoring your corporate information security and privacy on the Internet. Second Prize: Engaged staff, increased retention, teamwork and trust. First Prize: A long-term, company-wide culture of awareness of the importance of respecting and protecting corporate information. Employee-driven emphasis on its role in trust-based business relationships, legal obligations to business [...]

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The “Dumbest Generation”?

As GenY specialists, we have to comment on Mark Bauerlein’s new book, “The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30)”. The Emory University Professor presents his figures showing a decline in US adult literacy (40% of high-school grads in 1992; only 31% in [...]

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A Millennial Story

CPS hears both sides of the “Managing the Millennials” debate.  www.ManagingTheMillennials.com/survey brings us many candid snapshots of the world of work from the GenY perspective, to add to our research, focus groups, interviews and workshop-based knowledge. Our one VP is, of course, a Millennial too. CPS now has permission to publish a highly entertaining MiIllennial’s [...]

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Can you tell the generation from the writing?

You’re dealing with a client, co-worker, outsource project team member or supplier, and need to guess more about his/her thought style to work more effectively together. You can guess a client’s or remote colleague’s generation from their writing, and give them appropriate service or packaged data. Mature/Traditional: No emoticons. The writer thinks smiley faces are [...]

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80 Million Millennials Change the Business Environment

1    What your customers say. 2    What your employees say. 3    The Generation Y / Millennial guarantee. 4    County funds for CPS services 1.     What your customers say: Generation Y is a worldwide phenomenon. In the USA, our 80 million Millennials are a daily challenge to how we strategize, manage, and market. Open a [...]

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Managing Gen Y: strategic or operational management skills required?

80 million Millennials are changing every aspect of the business environment, and they’re your customers, suppliers and employees. CPS finds that a lot of companies don’t have comprehensive strategies to manage this generation in their business world. They are paying heavily with low productivity, high turnover, weaker business relationships and brand problems. They are also [...]

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