Generations

Millennial President

November 5, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBXjThmQwWY]

We have a new president after an historic election. Not only do we have the first African-American president, but Gen X and Y have their first leader as well. As MSNBC points out the Youth vote may have been key in Obama’s win: Early reports are indicating that the youngest members of the country’s electorate [...]

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Watercooler replaced with Facebook?

October 29, 2008

How do we keep a generation of workers, who have seen faceless companies’ layoff their parents en masse after years of loyalty, loyal to us? If their parents, who worked hard only to see the unemployment line or find work elsewhere, didn’t get the loyalty from their company, why will this new generation look at [...]

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Big Milestone and New Training Program on Generation X and Y

October 28, 2008

Sometime this morning, the blog hit 30,000 hits! Thank you to all of my loyal readers and to the new ones that continue to subscribe to my blog feed. To celebrate, I am also premiering a new training program: Generation X and Y: The Xs and Os of Recruiting, Managing and Retaining the New Workforce [...]

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Helicopter Parents Landing on Recruiters

October 24, 2008

Tammy Erickson wrote a very interesting piece about how involved parents are becoming in the recruitment process for Business Week: Like it or not, parents are an inevitable part of the process of recruiting members of Generation Y. Most members of this generation seek their parents’ input on key decisions; virtually no Y will accept [...]

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4 Things About Gen Y

October 16, 2008

I came upon this article titled “4 Things You Might Not Know About Generation Y” and had to comment. I’ll post some excerpts and make my points as I go. From ere.net: Sure, Gen Y is voting for Obama, but this doesn’t mean they are trailblazers. In fact, they are, for the most part, living [...]

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Feedback is Hurting My Ears!

October 14, 2008

Read this astute commentary about Generation Y and feedback I thought I would share with you from Brittany Hite of the Wall Street Journal: When 26-year-old Brittany Rotondo wants to know how she’s doing at work, she doesn’t wait for her six-month review — she goes straight to her managers and asks. “I’m definitely a [...]

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Responding to Search Terms: Who’s responsible?

October 7, 2008

It’s been a very hectic week or so as I get ready to premier my new company Price Points. Getting websites, logos and materials together has forced me to neglect the blog. I’ll try to get back on track starting today! Let’s see what people are looking for: good about negative thinking – There are [...]

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Responding to Search Terms: The Ups and Downs of Negative Thinking

September 9, 2008

I’m a bit disturbed with some of the search terms used to find my little wedge of the internet. Let’s take a look and see if I can help the poor lost souls that stumble upon this blog. slapping women – I have no idea what the heck this person was looking for. It did [...]

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Gifted Children are a Dime a Dozen

August 27, 2008

Saw this headline at CNN.com and had to comment: Is your kid really gifted? Probably not. Did your child walk and talk early? Does she have a brain like a sponge? Scribble magnificently? Love learning? Ask questions that leave you marveling (and scrambling to Google an answer)? Wow, clearly she’s a genius! Or, um, maybe [...]

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Generation Jedi: Yoda the Baby-boomer

August 18, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtfejKs_mI4]

One of the analogies I use when discussing Baby-boomers to younger generations is that Baby-boomers (the over 45 crowd to be simpler) is just like Yoda from Star Wars. Remember when we were first introduced to Yoda in The Empire Strike Back? He was this crazy, goofy Muppet with big ears who Luke didn’t think [...]

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