Workers Of Innovation

Generation Y, that’s what they call the new group of young people that are entering the work force of today these are young, well educated, workforce.
To Boomers, who have been the main staple of workers for the past thirty years, they are called, our children.
When the famous Boomers went to work they captured the flag of the day by becoming the go-go workers of their generation.
They were pushing the envelope and became the Yuppies of the eighties.
Greed was good.
You were working for only one reason, make the money.
Show me the money became a manta in the nineties and thousands of Boomers relied on it.
To many it was a way of life.
Work and more work.
Family was secondary, life was secondary.
Many Boomers found that the life they were leading was not the one that they wanted. Now as they age they look for a way out of their go-go life and looking for what is valuable in their lives. Many have left the corporate world and started new business, doing what gives them a passion in life. Something they really want to do.
Now Generation Y, the children of the Boomers are entering the working world and they are in a way following their parents.
The Boomers were happy to be working for a company for twenty plus years, but the Gen. Y is not interesting in working anywhere for that long a time. Instead, they want to change the companies that are hiring them. This is the generation that had a computer in their home, VCR’s, Cell Phones, Fax Machines, cable TV. They went on vacations around the world with Mom and Dad, they had their own calendars book to keep their schedules in line. Their time after school was packed with all kinds of activities they hardly had time for baseball, karate, ballet, and last but not least, homework.
They were applying for day school while they were still in the womb, college before they finished kindergarten.
Now, they have gotten their degrees and they are out there doing their thing and the corporate world is not ready for them. This is the generation that knew about computers and how to operate them before they could ride a two wheeler. They’ve grown up with MAC’s and PC. They know MS Office and other software’s that their parents took years to learn. In reality, college education is not needed by this generation as the previous generations. Why? Because of their knowledge and experience with the computers.
You’ve got a problem with a computer, who do you call at IT?
Probably some twenty-year old something who comes over and in less than fifteen minutes, has solved your problem.
Generation Y knows the tools of business, which today is communications and instant messaging. You see them with their phones, sending IM’s to each other, chatting in real time from almost anywhere in their work day. They can send chats to more than one person at a time, be listening to their IPods, keeping an eye on the email on their computer and be able to hold up their end in the office rumor mill.
What is amazing about this group is the innovations that they hopefully will bring to the Businesses they work for.
Innovation is the lifeline of a business. It doesn’t matter what business you’re in, if you don’t innovate you will not survive in today’s market place. Change is the one constant in the Universe. Everything is going through change and businesses can’t be left behind. No matter what your business is, innovation is key to your growing success.
The most important part of that innovation is your employees. They have to become assets to your operation. They are working in your business and are seeing it from a different angle that you might be at. They are on the ground level dealing with customers, suppliers and so forth. You employees might be able to come up with new idea, new products, new concepts that will help you to evolve and survive in the business world.
Everyone is an asset and the company that believes in that and uses it, will be successful.
The New Generation of workers are entering the workforce with a much different attitude then they’re parents. They realize that work is part of their lives, so they want to make work fun.
Fun at work, way different concept, we’ve always felt work was a necessity that we put up with in order to make money to get the other things we want in our lives, home, cars, toys and so forth.
This generation wants work to be built around their time schedule.
They are willing to do the all nighters, just like in college days, but they want to do it at their own speed. Sometimes this brings a confrontation with the old business model which is the 8 to 5.
This is no longer your dad’s workplace.
That’s the first thing you have to realize.
This is now the workplace of the Gen Y’s and they want everything to change.