2014-10-01 managing and motivating millennials
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Thrive. Grow. Achieve.
Managing and Motivating Millennials: The Secret to Engaging the Next Generation Gabrielle Jackson President & Millennial Strategist The Millennial Solution, LLC October 1, 2014
What’s Your M Factor?
Maximizing Your Millennial Talent
Gabrielle Jackson President, The Millennial Solution, LLC
www.millennialsolution.com
• GLOBAL • DIVERSE • OPTIMISTIC • SELF-AWARE
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Who Are We Working With?
Popular Media Defines Us
Myth #1: Entitled
FACT: We Are Ambitious
Myth #2: Independent
FACT: We Crave Mentors
Myth #3: Disloyal
FACT: We Invest in People-Not Companies
Myth #4: Addicted to Technology
FACT: We Are Constantly Connected
Myth #5: Unmotivated
FACT: Mission Driven
Questions?
The REAL Millennial Motivators
• Fulfillment • Family • Flexibility • Forward-moving • Feedback
1. Work/life balance (62 percent)
2. Job security (57 percent)
3. Dedicated to a cause or feel I am serving a greater good (49 percent)
4. Be competitively or intellectually challenged (34 percent)
5. Be a leader or manager of people (26 percent)
Top 5 Career Goals
Universum, 2013
1. Respect for its people ( 53.7 percent) 2. Secure employment (52.5 percent)
3. Creative and dynamic work environment (49.1 percent)
4. Professional training & development (45.7 percent)
5. Friendly work environment (45.6 percent)
6. Leaders who will support my development (42.7 percent)
7. High future earnings (42 percent)
8. Leadership opportunities (40.9 percent)
Top 8 Job Priorities
What is YOUR Millennial Challenge? • Attracting • Retaining • Optimizing What is the cause? • Industry • Personality • Position
ACTIVITY
Your Millennial Management Toolbox
• Keep it personal • Mentor like you mean it • Manage expectations • Be bendy • Keep it moving • Cross-train
Millennial Mentoring • Defined beginning and end • Dynamic and Organic • Cross-industry • Reverse and Peer Mentoring • Feedback
