How to manage millennials

The group of people who were born between 1991 and 1999 are called Millennial. Millennials are different from the crowd by their attitude, which is supported by the ease of access to information due to digitization. Millennials are also responsible for changing the mindset of our society. They are behind introducing modernism in the society.

Characteristic of Millennial population

? Millennials are technologically advanced, owing to which,  they are multi-taskers. They can manage multiple tasks at the same time without making any errors.

? They have creative problem-solving skills. They tend to exhaust their creative faculties from time-to-time. They are motivated by doing creative work, sharing their gifts and making an impact on others.

? Millennials are more imaginative in their thinking. If problems arise in the workplace, millennials typically have the ability to come up with artsy solutions to fix them

? They look for advice and research before going for something.

? They are socially conscious.

? Millennials are ambitious, confident, as well as driven towards their ambitions. They are practical and have high aspirations in life.

? Millennials prefer working across many functions, offering creative solutions and moving away from the boundaries of professional status and level

? Millennials are task-oriented rather than time-oriented. This can appear in the form of productivity with producing results, as well as placing a higher priority on the quality of a product, deliverable or otherwise task-related output

? Millennials have a passion for learning

How to handle the Millennial population

The most important thing is transparency. A culture of transparency is what every Millennial wants. They want to work at an organization that practices openness with its employees. Transparency is regarded as one of the most valued traits by this generation. 

 Millennial do not accept closed-door meetings in or policies dictated  by the workplace. Instead of a hierarchical approach to crucial matters of business, they prefer, things are laid out at an organizational level. While this may sound difficult in practice to a business owner or manager, it is not impossible to implement. This is especially effective when you are serious about managing Millennial employees with minimal waste of time and effort.

Allow them to work with a flexible schedule makes their lives easier and enable them to be more productive towards their tasks.

Management must make better work-life balance for their employees. All of this contributes towards letting the employee know that their personal life is respected and valued, as it should be. In addition to a work-life balance, Millennials pay a great deal of attention to the value of learning and growth in their career and they are willing to change their jobs to access this perk.