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Hi everyone:

I am putting together a presentation on the millennial generation and I am looking for an exercise which can highlight the stereotypes of the different generations (Mature, Boomers, Gen X, and the Millennials), or the hipness (opps, I meant "uniqueness," we were all once hip) of the Millennials.  Anything that highlights the "helicopter parents" would also be appropriate.

I would be grateful if you have one you can share, or can point me to places to look.  I will be happy to compile a list to share with the group, with permission of the source of course.

Thanks in advance for your good deed.

Ed Ng

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Ed Ng, PhD

Assistant Professor, Management & Human Resources

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Hi everyone:

I have compiled a list of readings and exercises based on what I received, below.  I want to thank Jesse Olsen, Roland Pepermans, Tim Gardner and Beverly George for your contributions.

Readings:

May 2007, "The Tethered Generation"

Jan 2008, "Millennials expect a lot from leaders"

Jan 2008, "Generation gaps"

Dries, Pepermans, & De Kerpel (2008).  Exploring four generations' beliefs about careers: Is "satisfied" the new "successful?"  Journal of Managerial Psychology, 23, 8, 907-928.

Also see JMP Vol. 23, No. 8 special issue on Millennials

Exercises:

Darrell Coleman at the University of Utah sent me his exercise on "You Raised Them, Now You Manage Them."

Generations-at-work Game, http://generationsatwork.com/boardgame.htm

Thank you all for sharing your resources!

Cheers,
Ed Ng

***Apologies for cross-postings***

Hi everyone:

I am putting together a presentation on the millennial generation and I am looking for an exercise which can highlight the stereotypes of the different generations (Mature, Boomers, Gen X, and the Millennials), or the hipness (opps, I meant "uniqueness," we were all once hip) of the Millennials.  Anything that highlights the "helicopter parents" would also be appropriate.

I would be grateful if you have one you can share, or can point me to places to look.  I will be happy to compile a list to share with the group, with permission of the source of course.

Thanks in advance for your good deed.

Ed Ng

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Ed Ng, PhD

Assistant Professor, Management & Human Resources

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

HI all:

I finally have Darrell's permission to share his exercise, so please credit him accordingly.

Coleman, D. G. 2009. Center for Teaching & Learning Excellence (CTLE), University of Utah, (info@ctle.utah.edu)

For higher education faculty when:

1) The faculty are primarily baby boomers and

2) they know little about the millennials, except

3) that their students seem to be acting and responding differently.

Activity: Learning Objective - Primary - participants are able to see how Millennials view themselves and to identify the primary characteristics of the Millennial generation. Secondary - to take a bit of ownership since many actually raised their kids to have these traits.

A) View the following link: http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.4907.3.1559087

B) Ask for a raise of hands on the following questions

      1) How many of you have kids 26 or under

      2) How many of you ever told them they were special and could change the world, fix the world's problems (SPECIAL)

      3) Can do anything if they put their minds to it (CONFIDENT)

      4) Gave them and encourage them to use any of the following, a computer, PDA, cell phone (TECH SAVVY)

      5) Pushed your child to achieve the best, and if they didn't gave them or encouraged the giving of an award anyway (ACHIEVE)

C) This is usually enough to get the message across for me to say:  You raised them, now (teach them, lead them, etc. depending upon the audience).  That phrase is a takeoff from the Fortune 2003 article on Millennial workers (You Raised Them, Now Manage Them, and I cite this article).

D) Then I go over the major characteristics of the Millennials and then ask them to work in teams to identify the strengths from these characteristics.  We go to weaknesses last as an open discussion because they're very good at identifying weaknesses but I the team work causes them to see what the strengths are and how they might come in handy.

Note: "You Raised Them, Now You Manage Them" is a Fortune article which appeared in the May 28, 2007 issue.

Also, the three readings below were drawn from SHRM's HRMagazine.

Cheers,

Ed

Hi everyone:

I have compiled a list of readings and exercises based on what I received, below.  I want to thank Jesse Olsen, Roland Pepermans, Tim Gardner and Beverly George for your contributions.

Readings:

May 2007, "The Tethered Generation" HRMagazine

Jan 2008, "Millennials expect a lot from leaders" HRMagazine

Jan 2008, "Generation gaps" HRMagazine

Dries, Pepermans, & De Kerpel (2008).  Exploring four generations' beliefs about careers: Is "satisfied" the new "successful?"  Journal of Managerial Psychology, 23, 8, 907-928.

Also see JMP Vol. 23, No. 8 special issue on Millennials

Exercises:

Darrell Coleman at the University of Utah sent me his exercise on "You Raised Them, Now You Manage Them."

Generations-at-work Game, http://generationsatwork.com/boardgame.htm

Thank you all for sharing your resources!

Cheers,
Ed Ng

***Apologies for cross-postings***

Hi everyone:

I am putting together a presentation on the millennial generation and I am looking for an exercise which can highlight the stereotypes of the different generations (Mature, Boomers, Gen X, and the Millennials), or the hipness (opps, I meant "uniqueness," we were all once hip) of the Millennials.  Anything that highlights the "helicopter parents" would also be appropriate.

I would be grateful if you have one you can share, or can point me to places to look.  I will be happy to compile a list to share with the group, with permission of the source of course.

Thanks in advance for your good deed.

Ed Ng

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Ed Ng, PhD

Assistant Professor, Management & Human Resources

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona