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Unique perspective of youth is driving SA's development goalsIn South Africa, there is a prevailing trend to also refer to millennials - young people born in the nineties - as the 'born frees' because they never experienced the Apartheid era. ![]() © George Dolgikh – za.fotolia.com Their experience of life is so fundamentally different from that of their predecessors, that our country's youth have a very unique perspective of the world. It is precisely this unique perspective which gives the youth of today skills that are moving our workplace forward. "Generational theory can be extremely useful to managers wishing to tailor their leadership approach to suit their team members. Millennials, who are currently in their 20s, can be something of a mystery to the more stable Baby Boomers, born in the fifties, and Generation X-ers who came into this world between 1960 and 1989," says managing director for Kelly, Graham Bentley. Key characteristicsFor those with members of today's youth in their team, Bentley outlines several key characteristics of this younger generation and how to extract the best from your members of staff and drive the country's development goals:
While the tragic circumstances that mark Youth Day will never be forgotten, this year we can celebrate the youth of our country because they are ensuring that South Africa is productive, entrepreneurial in spirit, inspired, motivated and digitally minded. |