2014-10-01 Managing and Motivating Millennials

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

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Contact: Gabrielle@MillennialSolution.com