TOP TRAINING COMPANY BEST PRACTICES

It has been widely reported that a work culture supporting employee engagement leads to greater employee retention. The Gallup survey “State of the American Workplace” found that only one-third of employees are “engaged” at work – they love their jobs and work hard every day to improve their organizations. That means two-thirds of employees are not engaged – 51% are “just there” and 16% are “actively disengaged”, miserable in their jobs and destroying much of the good work done by engaged employees.¹

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TOP TRAINING COMPANY BEST PRACTICES

There have been many studies, surveys and articles written about millennials in the workforce. This is not surprising considering that according to statistics, in less than 10 years 75% of the workforce will be made up of millennials. With this in mind, more and more companies are reviewing their workplace policies and practices to create a company culture that will attract, develop and retain millennials.

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TOP TRAINING COMPANY BEST PRACTICES

Technology is the biggest form of communication that millennials use today, both in their personal lives as well as in the workplace. As new tools are developed, millennials are the first ones to use them. However, what some people don’t know is that millennials also value face-to-face communication. They need more engagement than their employers realize which may be why some hiring managers find it difficult to find and retain millennials. 

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Training Millennials: Identifying the Needs of Future Leaders

Millennials are quickly growing in size to become the largest cohort in the workforce. Statistics show that by 2025 organizations will be dealing with a workforce made up of 75% Millennials.¹ With this in mind, successful companies gearing up for the future need to take a step back and really consider leadership development of this group, even though poor retention numbers characteristic of this group may serve as a deterrent. 

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TIPS FROM YOUR TRAINING COMPANY

Ah the Millennials. 

For many Baby Boomers like me, they seem like a whole new breed of employee, colleague and manager across organizations in today’s marketplace.

Although this cohort has a number of unique work related characteristics, one that is by far the most frustrating is the lack of loyalty resulting in turnover. 

At first I have to admit, I was quite narrow-minded, concluding that Millennials simply did not have intentions to stick around once they secured a position, and were consistently looking for the next best thing in the meantime.

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TIPS FROM YOUR TRAINING COMPANY

Many Millennial workers get a bad rap. 

Seen as being quite entitled, a bit lazy when it comes to working hard and flight risks when it comes to new hires, the truth is that the Millennial workforce encompasses a number of positive traits that can significantly help an organization if nurtured correctly.

Much of the reason for not seeing the good is because the one thing that Millennials undeniably are is different from the Generation X or Baby Boomer worker that currently makes up the majority of the workforce. By 2020 however, the global workplace will be made up of 50% of Millennials (that’s not too far away!).¹

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