How Royal Plaza on Scotts won the International Innovative Employers Award
A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege to speak at a Gen Y Conference, presenting our success in partnering Royal Plaza on Scotts in multi-generational engagement. The hotel, of course, has won the International Innovative Employers Award for being age-friendly
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LifeWorkz --- Making Work-Life work for 6,000 employees!
In a resounding vote of confidence, an organisation with a staff strength of 6,000 has appointed LifeWorkz as its Work-Life consultant.
Cheryl Liew-Chng, CEO of LifeWorkz, says: "This is good news in more ways than one! It is, first of all, an encouragement to us at LifeWorkz that our excellent track record in consulting and research has not gone unnoticed. But more importantly, on a wider scale, it is an encouraging move in the right direction, an investment in work-life flexibility and a recognition of what we are LifeWorkz have always championed: that Work-Life Flexibility makes Business Sense!"
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Have you taken a good look at your Gen Y Leadership Pipeline lately?
The theme of this year's National Day parade was a thought-provoking question: "What do you see?" What an appropriate question to ask about an organisation’s leadership pipeline! Recently I posed this very question to a HR director: "What do you see when you look into your organisation’s Gen Y leadership pipeline?"
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How to Get Campus Students to Co-operate
In our research conversations with campus administrators, lecturers and others in the education sector, we often ask them what perturbs them most about this generation of campus students. Here are some of the responses we usually get: They are indifferent and don't seem to care about the consequences of their actions…
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Just what is the problem with Gen Y?
Plenty, it would seem, going by our last session on Gen Y --- which was totally sold-out! We put this very question to managers and HR professionals across industries, in both the public and private sectors. Here are some of their raw, unedited, 'politically incorrect', no-holds-barred comments...
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Welcome to the Workplace - A Crash Course on Workplace Realities for Gen Y Employees
One of the things we at LifeWorkz seek to do for our clients is to alleviate the pain of leading a multi-generational team or organization. Besides helping managers to understand the idiosyncrasies of their Gen Y employees, we also designed a course for Gen Y themselves. It is a crash course on workplace realities…
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Y U So Like Dat? --- For Lecturers, Educators & All who work with Gen Y
While managers everywhere are finding it a challenge to manage Gen Y employees, perhaps no one comes closer to the antics of Gen Y than those in the education profession. Time and again, I hear professors, lecturers and tutors, campus staff and administrators echoing the same frustrations as managers in the workplace. Teaching, supervising and managing Gen Y students can be perplexing and bewildering
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The Straits Times quotes LifeWorkz as Gen Y expert
The Straits Times quotes LifeWorkz's CEO, Cheryl Liew-Chng, in "Gen Y gets down to work", an article on how the current recession has been a 'wake-up' call to Gen Y workers: LifeWorkz presents a comprehensive suite of solutions on Gen Y and beyond, for organizations and individuals seeking to get the best from their multi-generational workforce.
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