"Understanding Gen Y Employees - It's Not ALL Generational" - webinar video recording and handout (CollegeRecruiter.com)

The New Paradigm of Entry-level Talent Series

It's Not ALL Generational: Are Today's Entry-Level Employees Self-Directed Adults?

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.

Speakers Judy Anderson (L) and Terese Corey Blanck (R)
CTC Consultants, Inc.

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