How to Manage Millennial Employees.

You must have been familiar with the term "millennial generation". There are so many definitions of it on what year range they were born. I'll define the millennial here as people born after 1990. If your team consists of millennials, then you should know how to manage them.

A lot of research have shown that millennial generation is the most difficult to maintain in a company. They tend to jump off jobs in a short period of time. They like fun and flexible kind of jobs and working environment, yet demand a desirable salary. So how to manage them? If you're a millennial also, you must understand how is your attitude and behavior toward working in a company. But if you're in older generation, even in Generation Y, maybe there are some useful advice to be followed:

1. Create a flexible working system but demand result from them. You may apply a flexible working hours but they have to finish certain targets in a given deadline. So they may create flexible ways to finish the tasks.

2. Apply a fair and fun Reward and Punishments for their periodic KPI. Conventional Reward usually in a form of financial incentives, and the Punishments can be a "Warning Letter". But now you can make beyond that, something that can have a psychological impact for them, such as: Free Lunch / Day Trip to somewhere fun for the Reward; and "wear embarrassing costumes" for a certain period of time in the office, and be documented periodically, for the Punishment.

3. Create a fun but competitive working environment, that makes them feel comfortable and exciting to show their performance for the company. It can be done through such kind of working space: no cubicles, open tables, colorful rooms, and sometimes additional snacks or coffee will do good. Despite of it, they can be challenged to do breakthrough things and get specific rewards for it.

4. Keep a regular meeting with them to open dialogue, throwing a little bit of discussion, and in the end always remind them about the company's vision and mission, and how important is their contribution to that.

5. Keep a consistent execution of company's policy, rules, etc. and always inform them on why the policy / rules be made. This is important not just to maintain company's pride for employees, but also company's image for the customers.

Those are some examples on how to manage milenial generation. If you want to ask further for each things, you can email me at: chrissen.dharmawan@gmail.com.