How to get “The Millennials” to want to work for you?
By Rena Parent
Hello, I’m Rena Parent. I am an entrepreneur, a management consultant, a certified Dale Carnegie trainer and today I help people and companies become more successful/profitable by developing their EQ (Emotional Intelligence).
I would like to thank David Triana for inviting me to share critical leadership and entrepreneurial elements with Conexión’s readers.
In this publication, I am including an excerpt of a Dale Carnegie white paper backed by scientific research:
The New Boom. Millennials. Echo Boomers. Call them what you will, the generation born between 1980 and 1996 are influential by their sheer numbers, but also because of their remarkable cultural and technological impacts on society. In the first quarter of 2015, millennials have eclipsed the baby boomer generation in size.
It’s no wonder, then, that organizations and their leaders are realizing the importance of understanding how to engage millennials in the workplace. According to a recent report, millennials could become the most productive generation with the right combination of management and motivation.
Why Millennials?
The question is: Why this interest in the millennial generation? One series of reports notes that millennials have had immediate and long-term effects on society and have caused massive shifts in opinion on social issues over the past decade. Other research points to their distinct generational identity when it comes to how they interact with each other and with other generations.
Understanding the differences between millennials and non-millennials in the workplace and how to engage employees who are part of the millennial generation can lead to increased effectiveness in supervising and mentoring, which in turn can lead to workplace satisfaction, retention, motivation, and ultimately greater productivity.
Millennials want: · to be able to do work that’s varied and interesting · to work with senior management members who are honest with employees · to work for a company that encourages open communication between employees and management · an immediate supervisor who cares about their personal lives and the effects that has on their work · a good work-life balance
What Millennials believe is missing in the workplace: helping ensure they are doing work that varies, and providing them with the ability to learn and develop beyond their current job. A focus on honesty and open communication among all levels of employees and senior management. Supervisors that share a genuine interest in the personal lives of all team members.
The good news is that supervisors and senior managers can make a big difference by seeking to close the gap between things that are important to millennials and what millennials find is missing in the workplace.
Dale Carnegie Training can help you build sought after workplace environments characterized by effective communication, value recognition, and motivation and have Millennials living life engaged and on purpose.
About Rena Parent: Rena is a trusted advisor for certain key accounts in the Aerospace manufacturer and supplier of airplane motor parts as well as in the hospitality industry.
Rena successfully launched an all natural, preservatives and additives free, ready-made-meals line in the frozen food sector working with LA PETITE CUISINE, an HACCP certified industrial kitchen. Rena locked-in sales accounts in all the major natural food stores in Montreal.
As a Marketing Director for INNO-GLACE, a distributor of eco-friendly ice refrigeration system, Rena developed and directed the launch strategy for the first worldwide new and green product which then became the #1 most promoted in the market.
Rena is also the co-founder of a wealth building education company where strategic alliances were built with other educational and investment co. resulting in over $100 million dollars in sales in less than 3 years.
Rena believes that her career is based on helping people get great work into this world. She loves to inspire entrepreneurs, professionals and creative people to take decisive actions so they can get their greatest work into the world and therefore enhance our life on this planet for generations to come.
Contact Rena at [email protected] or at 850-748-7678
