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Managing & Motivating Gen Y
22nd
April 2010
Four Seasons, Singapore
Presented by: Richard Wentworth-Ping
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Wentworth Training Mission
To give everyone we work with the best shot at enjoying life.
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To reconsider our attitudes to Gen Y
To provide food for thought about your management of Gen Y staff
To give you some practical ideas
Objectives For This Presentation
Meet Katy and Sophie
It’s the circle of life
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Holding on vs.
Letting Go
Principles of Management (and Parenting)
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Unrealistic expectations about career progression, salary, work
choices
What Is It About Gen Y That’s Frustrating?
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Behaving like a cranky parent is probably not the
best way to manage GenY
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Adaptation is Crucial
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Gen Y expect more from their managers than
we did
Leadership Characteristics
that Gen Y Want Their Leaders
to Demonstrate
Caring 54%Inspiring 45%
Competent 44%Source: Tamasek Polytechnic Study 2010
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“They don’t care how much you know, until they know
how much you care”
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They may
well be the
making of
us
Raising The Bar For Managers
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“The best managers are
rarely if ever the most
lenient. Management is
about being respected not
being their friend.”
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So what motivates
Gen Y?
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Everyone should be excited and motivated
the first day at work in a new job
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Focus on
deliverables not
methods
Practical Ideas Are Everywhere
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Change the way you
communicate:
explain why
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Just because you
did it doesn’t mean
they have to
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Teach them
differently
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If you love
someone,
set them
free
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Motivating Generation Y
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We all have a choice about how we think and behave
With their talent and our leadership and management,
the future is bright
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world
Unreasonable people adapt the world to themselves
Thus all change is initiated by unreasonable people
George Bernard Shaw