Presentation given in ZSingapore april 2010 to audience of media, marketing and advertising senior managers

1. Managing & Motivating Gen Y
22nd April 2010
Four Seasons, Singapore
Presented by: Richard Wentworth-Ping
Wentworth
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2. Wentworth Training Mission
To give everyone we
work with the best
shot at enjoying life.
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3. Objectives For This Presentation
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
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4. Meet Katy
and Sophie

5. It’s the circle
of life

6. Principles of Management (and Parenting)
Holding
on vs.
Letting Go
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7. What Is It About Gen Y That’s Frustrating?
Unrealistic
expectations
about career
progression,
salary, work
choices
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8. Behaving like a
cranky parent is
probably not the
best way to
manage GenY
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9. Adaptation is Crucial
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10. Gen Y expect
more from their
managers than
we did
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11. Leadership Characteristics
that Gen Y Want Their Leaders
to Demonstrate
Caring 54%
Inspiring 45%
Competent 44%
Source: Tamasek Polytechnic Study 2010

12. “They don’t care how much
you know, until they know
how much you care”
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13. Raising The Bar For Managers
They may
well be the
making of
us
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14. “The best managers are
rarely if ever the most
lenient. Management is
about being respected not
being their friend.”
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15. So what motivates
Gen Y?
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16. Everyone should be excited and motivated
the first day at work in a new job
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17. Practical Ideas Are Everywhere
Focus on
deliverables not
methods
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18. Practical Ideas Are Everywhere
Change the way you
communicate:
explain why
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21. Practical Ideas Are Everywhere
Just because you
did it doesn’t mean
they have to
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22. Practical Ideas Are Everywhere
Teach them
differently
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23. Practical Ideas Are Everywhere
If you love
someone,
set them
free
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24. Motivating Generation Y
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25. 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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26. 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
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