Leadership Essay: The Impact of Millennials on Modern Leadership

This essay delves into the multifaceted realm of leadership, examining its significance as both a duty and an art form. It emphasizes the leader's role in empowering teams, fostering motivation, and guiding them towards organizational goals. The essay highlights the evolving expectations of the millennial generation regarding leadership, including their preferences for task assignments, work-life balance, individual recognition, and encouragement. It contrasts traditional leadership styles with those favored by millennials, such as participatory approaches, unity-focused team building, and supportive leadership. The essay also addresses the changes millennials are driving in leadership, such as a willingness to challenge ineffective leadership, a demand for training, and a preference for flat management structures and appreciation. Ultimately, the essay underscores the importance of adapting leadership styles to meet the needs and expectations of the modern workforce, particularly the millennial generation, for achieving organizational success. The essay concludes by summarizing the key differences between traditional and millennial leadership approaches, emphasizing the need for leadership to be adaptable and responsive to the changing needs of the workforce. It highlights the importance of leadership as an art, particularly in the context of the modern world and the contributions of millennials. The essay also references various books and journals to support the arguments presented.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
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REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Leadership, is not considered as the duty, but also it is an art to empowering other
individuals into an effective team with intact qualities. An individual who guides others in an
organisation or in any sector for relatively purpose to achieve the desired goals of an
organisation or in any business would be called as a Leader. Vital purpose of the leader is to
bring motivation among within the team members to perform the work effectively by providing
them an overview regarding the strategies and theories of innovation. It will really helps the
employee's to bring motivation in themselves and also it will tell them the importance of time
and the resources through which the goals will be achieve (Badibanga, A. and Ohlson, M.,
2021). Nowadays, quality of leadership is the requirement in every private organisation. All
aspirants in their resume will mention their best quality as a Leader, because they know it will
put a enhanced impression on the interviewer, it will advance the chances of the candidate to
score the job role. The manager or selectors of any small or any big organisation desires to select
an employee who have a quality to lead others and who always get ready to take initiative, able
to perceive plan and don't get afraid in a critical situation. In this essay, The quality of
Leadership , within the scope of the significance of Leadership potential and how millennials
generation will get managed and even get the assistance by the skill of leadership.
MAIN BODY
Leadership quality will bring discipline in the life, as being a leader it is important to know that,
to whom this quality will be shown and who have the capability to obey the instructions of
leaders. Not everyone has a desire to work under someone, it is really hard for people to believe
in someone. It is basically depends on the mind set of people that, do they really want someone
to control them or they individually are sufficient to control every situation in their businesses or
in their life. For example, According to the traditional generation is hardly believe in leadership
quality but, now millennial generation has a mind set to get managed by someone who has a
quality to brings positive changes in their behaviour or helps them to achieve the goals in an
organisation as well as maintain their individual life with well discipline (Faller, M. and Gogek,
J., 2019).
The millennial generation has a thinking that, they have better styles of leadership and
they adapt those style better than traditional generation.
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Desires of the Millennial Generation with the Leader.
There are few demands of the millennial generation regarding the leadership quality such as:
Assign the quality task- The performance of the employee's or the team will be depend on t
task, provided by their leader. The millennial generation wants a task which gives them some
learning so, that they brings some changes in their life and gives them a motivation to perform
the task effectively and efficiently. The quality task will force the team members to think out of
the box and gives them a duty to fulfil all the requirements in the given task.
Freedom in their personal life- The concept of the leadership brings out to motivate the
employees of the organisation, helps the company to achieve the rapid growth and achieve all the
desired goals of the organisation. The millennial is ready to obey their leader and will show a
better performance in the organisation(Hernandez,2018). But, they want to get free in the office
only from their official responsibilities, they don't to bring any work at their home. They want
that type of leadership which helps, the employee's to finish all the work in the company only
and at home they will get their freedom and they can do whatever they want.
Gives Importance to all the individuals- The leadership quality came to brings the motivation
in a team. The millennial wants that, every individual is a part of the team and the team would be
made by the different-different individual. If every individual perform better work eventually,
the whole team will be able to perform(Poole Jr, 2018 ). According to the millennial, they want
the attention in every individual performance so, that the whole team will be able to work
together and can be work as a team.
Encourage the team members- It is not possible every time to give their best while performing
the task. It is the duty of the leader to bring motivation in the working environment and
encourage all the members of the team to perform with their best abilities and calibre for the one
and only purpose that, provide the success to the company.
These are some desires of the millennial generation which they want from their leaders in
assigning the task or how they want to get managed by their leaders or what type leadership style
they more likely to adopt.
Millennial styles of Leadership- The millennial's are very advanced in their life, they have a
different mind set from the traditional generation. The leader has to act according to the need of
the situation and also transfer that enthusiastic behaviour in each and every members. The
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millennial has different mind set that's why they adopt the different style of leadership as
compare to the traditional generation (Grys,2018).
Millennials wants participation- The traditional generation were not so aware about the system
but, millennials are very concise about their responsibilities. They always want a participation in
leadership process and they show their interest to give advises to their leaders and also take
experience from them. The millennials choice is different, they want to perform with innovative
ideas and technology unlike the traditional generation where they just dependent on their leader
skills.
Millennials believes in Unity- Their main aim is to perform the work in a unity, they like
building a relationship between the team members. They don't want to put burden on any
individual, they like to take all the responsibilities over the team and also gives success to the
company with the effective team conceptualization (Putriastuti, 2019).
Millennials wants support- Millennials are very enthusiastic towards their company operations
so, they also want support from their leader. The leader in the millennial generation provides
them best facility to support their team members so, that they will be able to enjoy outside the
company and also live their happily without any stress.
The millennials don’t like the traditional form of leadership, they want to adopt
something innovative and supportive style of leadership. The five changes are given below
which millennials wants to bring in today's style of leadership.
Right to left out, if leadership is not worthy- The millennials never support those style of
leadership which is not able to help them as well as to the company. If they don't feel
comfortable with the work given by a leader or they realise that there is no growth under such
type of leadership, they quit that style and also a leader (Stasi, 2019 ).
Millennials have different needs- Unlike the traditional generation, millennials have different
needs, their prospective are different and they believe in a training period. The millennials
require the training period which, helps them to bring some leadership quality in them.
Millennials used Flats management structure- The hierarchy of management structure is like
a pyramid in which all the stages are prescribed. They don't prefer various stages of the
management to fulfil the requirements of the company.
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Millennials wants appreciation- Millennial generation give their best effort in the operation of
a company, they perform the work with full motivation and confidence, they always obey the
decisions of their leader. So, they also want appreciation from their leaders and want to get
valued their efforts by the company (Sherman, and Saifman, 2018).
Millennials always support right one- If they didn't like the policies of the company then
unlike, traditional generation they left the policy. They believes that the policy of the company
should bring any sense in operations of the company. If they didn't felt any sense they decide to
brings changes in a policy.
These are some changes which the millennials want to bring in today's style of
leadership. They are in against of the traditional style of leadership. The millennials believes that
leadership is an art and the art should be present without any deficiency so, that there is no
question arises in style of leadership(Vijaybaskar, 2020.).
CONCLUSION
In the above essay, the styles of leadership, millennials style of leadership got discussed and the
betterment would got shown in the millennials style of leadership as compared to the traditional
style of leadership. Changes are done by millennials in the traditional style of leadership. The
millennials have a different mind-set and way of approaching the problems. Millennials always
want the style of leadership which give them confidence and an ability to achieve the desired
goals of an organisation.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Badibanga, A. and Ohlson, M., 2021. Millennials’ Leadership Skills for Promoting Flow and
Profit in a Business Simulation. Journal of Leadership Studies, 15(2), pp.70-80.
Faller, M. and Gogek, J., 2019. Break from the past: survey suggests modern leadership styles
needed for millennial nurses. Nurse Leader, 17(2), pp.135-140.
Hernandez, J. S., Poole Jr, K. G. and Grys, T. E., 2018. DISCUSSION: MENTORING
MILLENNIALS FOR FUTURE LEADERSHIP. Physician Leadership Journal, 5(3).
Putriastuti, B. C .K. and Stasi, A., 2019. How to lead the millennials: A review of 5 major
leadership theory groups. Journal of Leadership in Organizations, 1(2).
Sherman, R. O. and Saifman, H., 2018. Transitioning emerging leaders into nurse leader
roles. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 48(7/8), pp.355-357.
Vijaybaskar, L., 2020. A NEW LEADERSHIP MODEL FOR MILLENNIAL LEADERS IN
THE INNOVATION AGE. Journal of Contemporary Management Research, 14(1).
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