The millennial mindset
Millennials are a fresh brand taking to the industry. This is a youthful and ambitious group. I am. The enterprise must likewise transform quickly to incorporate this breed of talented individuals. They have an abundance to offer but are easy to make quick decisions from which they never go back. Millennials are ready to leave their employment if the conditions are not challenging enough and exciting.
We must put our questioning mindset to use by the business and drive innovation, which this new blood speeds up. Companies must know how they can nature corporate entrepreneurship to keep this talent and volatile force that ever thinks of the next move soon after attaining what was their next step a few months or years ago. Leaders must mentor them, not be like them, but appreciate themselves and their strengths.
Never tell a millennial you are in the best place. Let them find out they are from what the organisation offers. The moment you say that they do a comparative analysis in their mind and they realise there is a better place. That’s when they plan to move. Give them an environment that uses nature and develops the best of their talent. They will stick longer. Grow them, don’t brainwash them, they are the hardest to accept conditions as they are. They think, “Yeah… we could do better”.
Create favourable conditions or else they will create it themselves or look for where it exists. This is a group that does not endeavour rules such as dressing policies, language policies, and others. They concentrate more on what is my value, and what do I bring on board. They are more concerned about the outcome instead of the method. It is a group that appreciates shortcuts and shortest methods to solutions.
Appreciation of technology is at the heart of this generation. For a company to keep this lot, it must adapt to emerging technologies and empower its employees to use the tech or else they will leave. Companies must so see how they will adapt artificial intelligence, digitization of the value chain, virtual and augmented reality, among other technologies of the future to keep this workforce.
Understand millennials to grow your organisation and venture.
But since I am re-sharing this article I wrote in 2018, someone tell me about Gen-Z.
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