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I worked from home on Friday and enjoyed the long-weekend off. I actually read another book, The Age of Speed that I’ll be discussing in a later post, but for now, back to Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How To Manage Generation Y.

The fourth chapter focused on how to treat, or interact, with Generation Y workers. The second half of the chapter specifically dealt with creating a reward system for Gen Yers.

Chapter four is titled “Practice In Loco Parentis Management,” which is Latin for in place of the parent. It has traditionally been used for a place where a school or a ward would be in charge of care for the child, but author Bruce Tulgan likens it to taking over the tutoring aspects of your Gen Y employees without taking over the emotional growth responsibility that is definitely reserved for the actual parent. Read More

Today I read chapter three of Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How To Manage Generation Y titled “Get them up to speed quickly and turn them into knowledge workers.” Again, author Bruce Tulgan provides an easy to read, step-by-step plan on making Gen Yers great employees.

Day one for a Gen Yer is the most important day, Tulgan’s metaphor is to plan for a Gen Yer’s first day of work like you would plan for your child’s birthday party.

Gen Yers want to hit the ground running but they don’t want to be put in to sink or swim situations. They want to hit the ground running with lots of support and guidance every step of the way. Read More

Chapter two of Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y is titled “Get them on board fast with the right messages,” and focuses on recruiting and hiring Gen Yers.

What I’m really enjoying about this book is the practical advice author Bruce Tulgan gives that you can put in to action right away. I’ll feature a few tips in this post Read More

I recently began reading Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y by author Bruce Tulgan. I picked up because in my job as the Communications Manager I regularly work with two full-time employees who are my direct reports and then upwards of 15 part-time student employees who are also direct reports and as many as 30 part-time students who work on the Student Association who are not my direct reports but who I am engaged with on a regular basis. Read More

A few years ago, my friends Bessie and Christian gave me Delicious Library for my birthday. It’s a program that uses your iSite (or other Web cam, I guess) to catalouge all your DVDs, books, CDs and I think toys now too.

I’ve been using it ever since and I’ve recently published my shelf to the Web. It’s not the entire listing, but it has the bulk of my library. Check it out here.