Team Building Tips

What makes a good boss good? Ask this question to more than one person, and you are bound to get different responses. However, there are a number of skills, strategies, and attitudes that are common to all good bosses.

So often when working with managers and supervisors I hear them use the word "attitude problem" when describing their difficult employees. But sometimes, when I ask a few questions I discover that what is really happening is a difference in expectations about what an employee's attitude "should" be.

Dozens of articles and books have been written about the new generation of employees. We know why these twenty-somethings are different from Baby Boomers and what they want out of work and life, but what do we do with this knowledge. Here are three tips for managing Generation Y employees.

In the year 2012, it is estimated that “Gen Y” will represent over 50% of the workforce in America, which now accounts for 31%. People born after 1980 will be the driving force behind business.  Yes, that’s right.  These youngsters with I-pods, I-phones, wearing $500 jeans and drinking $4.95 cups of coffee will be answering our phones, processing orders, selling securities, tending deli counters, teaching children, driving buses, treating illness and so on.  This technology savvy group will replace a large chunk of Boomers (people born 1946 – 1964), who currently make up the main workforce with a 45% representation and are about to retire.