Saturday, January 22, 2011

Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties; Harvard Business Review, 1/19/11

Michael Fertik, Harvard Business Review; Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties:

"The best managers of younger employees are people who would otherwise love teaching for a living. They prize helping others grow and tend to overexplain their reasoning for decisions. Rather than assuming that twenty-somethings possess enough experience or perspective to read between the lines of their choices, these managers take an extra few minutes to lay out pros and cons and diagram their rationale. Three short minutes of explanation usually make excellent junior employees excited, since they feel the immediate benefits of gaining insight into decision-making processes. It also makes them better at working for you and your company, because it teaches them how you think."

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