Millennials Who Manage, 1st edition
Title overview
Millennials are rapidly filling executive, senior, middle, and frontline levels of management. In these roles, they’re managing not just their peers, but also Baby Boomers and Gen X’ers – often, people who have far more experience than they do. In Millennials Who Manage, Chip Espinoza brings together all the practical advice they need to succeed in their new roles – and other executives and HR professionals need to develop them as leaders.
Unlike most books on millennials in the workforce, this one isn’t a conversation about them: it’s a conversation with them. Drawing on his extensive experience consulting on millennials and management, Espinoza offers step-by-step, research-based guidance for:
- Honing your own perspective on management
- Being authentic and successful as a millennial in management
- Understanding the shifting dynamics of a multi-generational workforce
- Recognizing what older workers want, and what your millennial peers need
- Overcoming the “Baby Boss” stereotype: getting respect, being listened to, and building relationships
- Mastering the seven competencies most critical to your success
- Getting to the next level – and the level beyond that
The first practical, step-by-step guide for every millennial who is moving into management – or moving up!
- How to manage people who’ve been around far longer than you have
- Understanding the dynamics of a multi-generational workforce, while staying true to yourself
- Overcoming the “baby boss” stereotype
- Mastering the 7 competencies most critical to your success now
- Includes exercises and worksheets for MBA and other students and practitioners
Table of contents
Chapter 1: A Priori 1
Chapter 2: Making the Transition into Management 11
Chapter 3: Developing a Perspective 19
Chapter 4: Be True to You 27
Chapter 5: Be True to Others 37
Chapter 6: Generational Differences: Fact or Fiction? 47
Chapter 7: Dynamics of a Multigenerational Workforce 63
Chapter 8: The Reasons You Will Be a Great Leader 79
Chapter 9: Managing Millennials 89
Chapter 10: Managing Boomers, Xers, and Silents 111
Chapter 11: Getting to the Next Level 123
Index 149
Author bios
Chip Espinoza, Ph.D., is the coauthor of Managing the Millennials: Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today’s Workforce and Millennials@Work: The 7 Skills Every Twenty-Something Needs to Overcome Roadblocks and Achieve Greatness at Work. He is also the Academic Director of the Organizational Psychology program at Concordia University Irvine.
Chip keynotes internationally and across the country on how to create an environment in which Millennials can thrive. Chip is a leading expert on the subject of generational diversity in the workplace. He consults in the civic, corporate, and non-profit sectors.
Chip has authored several articles on the subject of leadership and is the go-to person for news agencies on the topic of integrating younger workers into organizations. He is a content expert for CNN on the subject of generational diversity in the workplace. He has also been featured on Fox News, CBS Radio, and in major publications. Chip was named a Top 15 Global Thought Leader on the Future of Work by the Economic Times.
Joel Schwarzbart, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Social Science from the University of California at Irvine, where he studied Social Network Analysis. He teaches Organizational Behavior at Cal State University, Fullerton and has been studying the impact of Millennials on the workplace since 2006. Dr. Schwarzbart co-developed the Generational Rapport Inventory to measure strengths in managing across generations.