{"id":1433,"date":"2012-02-24T06:05:31","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corevalues.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2012-02-24T06:05:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T13:05:31","slug":"generation-y-cooperation-in-the-workforce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/2012\/02\/24\/generation-y-cooperation-in-the-workforce\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Y Cooperation in the Workforce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iStock_000002807197Girl-exicted-at-computer11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1360\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/iStock_000002807197Girl-exicted-at-computer11-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>By TIGERS Success Series<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been saying for a couple of years that the Gen Y worker will take workforce cooperation to the next level. What they need is good mentoring, coaching and a clear career path to build their skills.<\/p>\n<p>New research by\u00a0leadership firm,\u00a0Zenger Folkman, reveals that Gen Y employees aren\u2019t the self-centered \u201cknow-it-alls\u201d that many believe them to be.<\/p>\n<p>To\u00a0their surprise, when it came to driving for results, the Gen Y group in the study had the highest scores, followed by the traditionalists. Boomers received the lowest scores.<\/p>\n<p>The study isolated\u00a0four workplace competencies. The results revealed that\u00a0in each generation revealed other surprising truths. For example, even though Gen Y is often considered self-centered and hard to work with, in the study\u2019s category of collaboration and teamwork, they were at the 60<sup>th<\/sup> percentile, while the percentile scores were lower for each older generation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems the younger generation is very willing to collaborate with those who are more experienced in the workplace,\u201d said Joe Folkman, president and co-founder of Zenger Folkman. \u201cAnd they have something great to contribute to teams. Not surprisingly, they also received the highest scores on innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The final surprise was the extremely high scores of the Gen Y group on the dimension of self-development. Here they were at the 64<sup>th<\/sup> percentile while the Boomers were at the 52<sup>nd<\/sup> percentile. This hardly confirms the image of complacent know-it-alls.<\/p>\n<p>However, while Gen Y excelled in these four competencies, there are areas for them to grow. For example,\u00a0Traditionalists scored the highest on technical and professional expertise and displaying high integrity and honesty in their behavior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What this means for business owners is that in order to capture and retain the\u00a0best Gen Y workers who can help you take your organization to the next level, develop strategies and coaching programs where\u00a0these employees can stretch themselves.\u00a0They are willing to learn and have much to contribute.<\/p>\n<p>To download a self scoring survey\u00a0to see how your\u00a0managers measure up as coaches\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/team-leader-coaching-assessment\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By TIGERS Success Series We&#8217;ve been saying for a couple of years that the Gen Y worker will take workforce cooperation to the next level. What they need is good mentoring, coaching and a clear career path to build their skills. New research by\u00a0leadership firm,\u00a0Zenger Folkman, reveals that Gen Y employees aren\u2019t the self-centered \u201cknow-it-alls\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,257,258,314,324,272,263],"tags":[69,242,243,323,65,108,18],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collaboration","category-cooperation","category-cooperative-values-collaboration","category-ethics","category-team-building-tips","category-team-cooperation","category-work-enviornoment","tag-collaboration","tag-employee-engagement","tag-employee-motivation-3","tag-gen-y","tag-team-development","tag-team-dynamic","tag-values"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corevalues.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}