This document provides information about Mrinal Krant, including his background, qualifications, areas of expertise, and professional experience. Specifically: - Mrinal Krant is a senior human resources professional specializing in talent development, leadership coaching, and recruiting. He has over 15 years of experience working with multinational companies in India and the US. - He holds an MBA in human resources from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management and has served in the Border Security Force. He is also certified in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessments. - In addition to HR consulting, Mrinal enjoys blogging, participating in online forums, and sharing knowledge through presentations on topics like generational differences in the

1. Mrinal Krant
MPM, 2003, SIBM, Pune
Email:
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2. Who is Mrinal
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Mrinal is a senior Human Resources professional and specializes in Talent Coding,
Optimization and Development. Has done series of leadership development programs.
He has been doing young CEO coaching for past 4 years. Worked with US MNCs and
Global Consulting firms in India and in the US. Has been hiring from IITs, top NITs and
ISB in India, besides University of Pennsylvania, Le High, Duke, etc, for Consulting and
Analytics (Business Intelligence) companies.
Mrinal brings specialist insights into "Total Rewards System", Organization Design &
development, Review/Feedback/Feedforward/Speedback mechanisms, Succession
planning, HR Analytics &Dashboards and also top talent search. Mrinal is a graduate
from Delhi University and an MBA in Human Resources from Symbiosis Institute of
Business Management (SIBM), Pune. Mrinal is an MBTI Certified Coach. He worked for,
APC India, R&D Centre (Now APC-MGE, under Schneider Electric), ZS Associates and
InfoCepts Technologies.
Mrinal has served Border Security Force (BSF) Central Police Organization as Assistant
Commandant.
Went to JNU for Masters in Ancient History. Was rank-1 in All India Entrance exam.
He is a Blogging enthusiast and active participant on Linked In and Quora forums.
http://krantmrinal.blogspot.in/
http://www.quora.com/Mrinall-Krant

3. Agenda
 Who is Gen Y?
 The new rules for the Gen Y
 Key Notes from McQueen’s desk
 Gen Y- beliefs, traits and values?
 Do we shape them or they are shaping us?
 What kind of work-place are they shaping?
 What Gen Ys have to tell?
 How to manage them, learn from them and leverage
their beliefs and strengths?
 Q&A
30 mins
15 mins

4. History and future of generations
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1945 1960 1965 1980 1995 2000 2010 2025
Baby Boomers Generation Y Generation Z Generation AlphaGeneration X
Divided into
„Hippies‟
and
„Yuppies‟, they
were raised
by the ‘Builders’
Also known as ‘
Latchkey
Kids’, they were
raised by
the early baby
boomers
Likely to be
‘Google Kids’
Also known as
the ‘
Millennial
Generation’, they
were raised
by the late baby
boomers
Also known
as ‘Digital
Natives’, they
are being
raised by
Generation X
Ref : Grail Research, 2010

5. Shift in demography5
83
11
55
39
40
23
207
75
11
53
37
41
24
222
60
27
2
16
12
9
5
38
92
35
3
18
14
13
7
54
Region Country Working age (15-60 years) Retiree (60+ years)
North
America
Europe
Asia
2008
2020
Significant
shift
SOURCE: McKinsey

6. Workforce composition 2010:2020
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Generation 2010 2020
Overall population 1220 Mio 1326 Mio
Boomers 38% <15%
Gen X 32% <25%
Gen Y 25% 45-50%
Gen Z Na 10%

7. Who is Gen Y
 “Generation Y ”—born between 1980 and 1989
 Most of India‟s high-potential employees (64%) and middle managers (55%) are
Gen Y
"To some, they are the tech-savvy, well educated and
ambitious youngsters poised to take on and change the
world. Others, however, describe a disloyal, disrespectful and
demanding generation who have never learned to wait or
really work hard for anything. Born between the early 1980's
and the late 1990's, Generation Y has certainly caused a stir
in recent years.
Michael McQueen, is a Sydney-based speaker, social
researcher and business owner, founder of the Nexgen
Group. Consulted , coached 90 K people on last 5 years.

8. Key notes form McQueen‟s desk
• Fast paced, Revealing, Redefining, re-shaping
tomorrow’s leadership
De-coding
Generation Y
• Strategies for managers and leaders : the benefits
of attracting, motivating and retaining Gen Y
employees
Managing Gen Y
Master-class
• How and why the generational diversity in a team
can lead to misunderstandings and conflict.
Understanding the
Generations @ Work
• Strategies for developing targeted, age-specific
messages.
Marketing to the
Generations
• To assist young managers avoid conflict and
miscommunication when managing older workers.
Managing the Mature-
aged Workforce

9. Gen Y: beliefs, traits and values
BELIEFS
• Can take career
decisions for
themselves
• Know how to Do
the right thing
• Know how to
Get it right
• They have right
to be Treated
right
TRAITS
• Politically Aware
• Involved
• Tech Savvy
• Highly Educated
• Innovators
VALUES
• Work-life
balance
• Flexibility
• Open
communication
• Clear feedback
and feed-forward
• Innovation/work
around
• Sense of worth
and sense of
growth

10. The new rules for the Gen Y
Some HR specialists have produced guidelines for managing the Under 24’s
in the workplace-
It seems increasingly clear that Generation Y wants the workplace to be fu
relaxed, and non traditional
Allow some flexibility in day-to-day scheduling.
Focus on work outcomes, but be personable and
have a sense of humour.
Provide ongoing training and learning opportunities
Offer increasing responsibility as a reward for
achievements as they happen;
Wherever possible, provide challenging work that
really matters;
Treat them as colleagues, not as beginners or kids;
Use innovative ideas for creating a more
comfortable, low-key, low-stress workplace

11. Do we shape them or they are shaping us?
It is important that managers do not get hung up on behind your desk
means work!!
The differentiator-Shaper,
Gen Y.
Beyond
the
“DESK”
Behind the
change
Reversing the
gen X trend

12. The key factor called “Life”

13. What Gen Ys have to tell
Hold Only
Productive
Meetings
Shorten the
Work Day
Bring Back the
Administrative
Assistants
Redefine
Retirement
Find Real
Mentors
Continue to
Value What Our
Parents Have
to Offer
Restore
Respect to the
HR Department
Promote Based
on Emotional
Intelligence
Re-invent the
Performance
Review
Enjoy Higher
Starting
Salaries

14. You can engage them if you know them
• Engage with common interest and
outside work space links
Connect
• Environment and climate of Gen Y
productivity-Focus on outcome, less
on process. They want flexibilityCreate
• Communicate openly and honestly
with Gen Y. They look for ‘real’ people
Communicate
Understand Adapt Leverage
Mantra for Managers

15. You can engage them if you know them. Contd.
• Admit Mistakes-Be upfront about
making mistakesTransparency
• performance and career planning ,
• provision of individual recognition
Focus on
Development
• The group is both ambitious and
impatientChallenging
• Constant feedback-appraisal
360X365Feed backing
• Partner in their growth planning
Feed-forward
Mantra for Managers

16. Confidentiality and IPR
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