It's Not All Generational
Yesterday I wrote about our new webinar series for employers and college career service office professionals and discussed in some detail the first of what will be hundreds and perhaps thousands of webinars that we'll deliver over the coming months to:
- Recruiters, hiring managers, and other employer professionals;
- College career service office professionals;
- Admissions office professionals;
- Consumer marketing professionals;
- Job seekers / candidates; and
- Parents.
Today I want to spotlight the second in the two-part webinar series from Terese Corey Blanck and Judy Anderson of CTC Consultants. As you can tell, I'm just a little pumped about these webinars. Well, maybe quite pumped.
The second webinar from Terese and Judy is entitled, It's Not ALL Generational: Are Today's Entry-Level Employees Self-Directed Adults? In the webinar, Terese and Judy will answer the question, "Why do 18-28 year old "millennial" employees, as emerging adults, represent a unique challenge in the workplace that can impact their employer's success?"
Generational understanding is increasingly valuable as it relates to impacting communication and collaboration among managers and staff within the workplace. However, the Millennial generation is a bit more complex.
This webinar provides a new framework pairing an in-depth understanding of the youngest generation along with new information specific to identity, cognitive and brain development. Experiences in the workplace resulting in much frustration are NOT all generational. The fact is that most entry-level employees have not yet reached adulthood by the time they enter the work force; and, as a result, their behavior is not what employers expect.
Judy Anderson and Terese Corey Blanck are experts in an emerging, specialty field. They have researched and understand that the millennial generation of 18-28 year olds who employers are counting on to maintain corporate productivity and success are themselves an entirely new breed of individual. Not yet fully emerged into adulthood, they stand cognitively and developmentally apart from the Boomers and Gen-Xers who preceded them. With motivations that are all their own, if you're not providing for them as they think you should, they'll move on within 18 months.
The reality that Anderson and Corey Blanck will make evident is that employers who are challenged and blame their frustration on their millennial employees need to understand the developmental forces at work in shaping these emerging adults. Then perhaps they'll realize that "It's Not All Generational." Among the topics discussed:
- Who are the Millennials?
- The Impact of Emerging Adulthood Later in Life
- The Demographic Gap (Boomers / Gen X / Millennials)
- The Millenial Filter: 12 Deal Breakers
- A NEW Life Stage: Change that is Not Generational
- Cognitive Development: "How Do I Think?"
- The Manager's Disconnect With Employees Who Live By A Different Definition of Adulthood
Take away from this presentation: Employers will understand Emerging Adulthood, a new life stage of development, providing a new framework for diagnosing the behavior of their entry-level talent resulting in a new practices.
Intrigued? I thought you would be. Want to see a snippet from the webinar? Click on the video below:
Want to watch the entire webinar? Buy it, download it, and then share it with anyone and everyone in your organization.










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