The Oxford Dictionaries defines relevant as "closely connected or appropriate to the matter in hand".
So what does it mean when it comes to a manager engaging with his / her team in work organizations?
If you are to be accepted as a leader manager you have to be relevant in today's context. The expectations, needs, desires and general view of life changes with generations. Today's young people at work in their early twenties may never realize that work was once done without email, without digital systems, with type writers, with ammonia duplication machines. There were no scanners, no internet and also fewer cars on the road to the workplace. Majority of companies did not provide a pick up and drop facility from and to office / workplace in earlier decade.
This whole digital age, when things are done at the click of a mouse or on pressing ENTER on a key board has resulted in a expectation osmosis towards forming a more generalized view for everything to happen even at work in a jiffy, therefore the need for quick resolution, quick feedback, instant gratification and so on. Which means that managers need to be fast in all of these aspects- giving feedback, providing responses, decision making and so on.
The new generation of employees are tuned to their mobiles all of the time, familiar with digital technology and more comfortable if there is a reciprocal response from managers. While a manager may ask "Why should I be the one to change" the simple response is today you as a manager may be in a minority in organizations as there are several companies with over 50% Gen Y employees. World wide the workforce may have about 36% of millennial generation in the workforce but in countries like India it is higher and in some sectors like the IT/ ITeS it is much higher. Remember the old saying : "While in Rome, do as the Roman's Do."
Today is the age of fast and not so lasting change, people expect and are so used to change happening all of the time so it is important for managers to also change and reinvent themselves. You can always lean back on the fact that "It always happened this way.... here" but not for long as your team will find their managers are not relevant. Meetings and the way they are organized should keep changing now and then otherwise they become drab, boring, seen that before kind of rituals.
Today you can send and receive as many emails back and forth in a single day to close your communication... so more frequent connects are the order of the day when it comes to work. Which means you need to connect back with your teams more often than what you did in the past decade. In short influences on the social side of personal lives need to spill over into the workplace.
Adopt latest technologies, speed up things even in people management, bring more variety and flavors in your meetings, connect more often, give more feedback, get more frequently into connect session with your team(s) and keep giving them a thumbs up for good things happening every now and then.
If you are to be accepted as a leader manager you have to be relevant in today's context. The expectations, needs, desires and general view of life changes with generations. Today's young people at work in their early twenties may never realize that work was once done without email, without digital systems, with type writers, with ammonia duplication machines. There were no scanners, no internet and also fewer cars on the road to the workplace. Majority of companies did not provide a pick up and drop facility from and to office / workplace in earlier decade.
This whole digital age, when things are done at the click of a mouse or on pressing ENTER on a key board has resulted in a expectation osmosis towards forming a more generalized view for everything to happen even at work in a jiffy, therefore the need for quick resolution, quick feedback, instant gratification and so on. Which means that managers need to be fast in all of these aspects- giving feedback, providing responses, decision making and so on.
The new generation of employees are tuned to their mobiles all of the time, familiar with digital technology and more comfortable if there is a reciprocal response from managers. While a manager may ask "Why should I be the one to change" the simple response is today you as a manager may be in a minority in organizations as there are several companies with over 50% Gen Y employees. World wide the workforce may have about 36% of millennial generation in the workforce but in countries like India it is higher and in some sectors like the IT/ ITeS it is much higher. Remember the old saying : "While in Rome, do as the Roman's Do."
Today is the age of fast and not so lasting change, people expect and are so used to change happening all of the time so it is important for managers to also change and reinvent themselves. You can always lean back on the fact that "It always happened this way.... here" but not for long as your team will find their managers are not relevant. Meetings and the way they are organized should keep changing now and then otherwise they become drab, boring, seen that before kind of rituals.
Today you can send and receive as many emails back and forth in a single day to close your communication... so more frequent connects are the order of the day when it comes to work. Which means you need to connect back with your teams more often than what you did in the past decade. In short influences on the social side of personal lives need to spill over into the workplace.
Adopt latest technologies, speed up things even in people management, bring more variety and flavors in your meetings, connect more often, give more feedback, get more frequently into connect session with your team(s) and keep giving them a thumbs up for good things happening every now and then.
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