There is a lot of discussion about how to retain Millennial employees, as they are ‘apparently’ known for only having ‘one foot in the game’. According to a recent survey by Job Bite, they found that 33% of new hires leave their new job within the first 90 days! 43 percent cite the reason being… Read More >>
5 Ways to Make Work Fun for Your Employees
How to make work fun for your employees? After all, there should be fun in the hard stuff we do each and every day, right? In 1968 a television producer asked herself a generational ‘point-of-no-return’ question. That question was: “What if we took learning for children and we made learning tastes more like ice cream than… Read More >>
Stay Interviews – How to Keep Millennials from Quitting
What is Stay Interviews? What is their purpose and do they improve retention in your organization? Before I answer that, first image this: You’ve had a great weekend and you show up to the office with a smile on your face. You know you’re going to get a lot done, feeling rejuvenated, and then you get… Read More >>
Millennials and Slash Careers – The Slash Generation
Slash Careers and Millennials – what do they have in common? I talk about generational signposts and those are events or phenomenon that are specific to one generation. The beauty of generational signposts is that they help explain how and why clusters of people born during a certain timeframe respond to different situations. After I… Read More >>
Millennials and Money
Let’s discuss Millennials and Money, as well as what help do millennials really wish for when it comes to working in your organizations. Financial stress can cost organizations up to 250 billion. That’s billion with a B! I don’t think I ever learned to count that high. Two hundred and fifty billion dollars in lost… Read More >>
Understanding What Millennials Want from Employers
For the first time in history, Millennials, the younger generation knows more about something we need to know. So, what millennials want from employers is not always clear or visible to us. At least not on the surface! What does this mean to you, as an employer or a boss? Most baby boomers learned to… Read More >>
Millennials Versus Gen X
Millennials vs Gen X… so what’s up with the Millenials and why everyone makes fun of them? What is the difference and how can millennials positively tap into their power? It is what we’re discussing today… Millennials Versus Gen X This episode starts off with 7 minutes of Simon Sinek – fantastic observations about the millennials.… Read More >>
Millennial Boss: How to Give Corrective Feedback to a Baby Boomer
How to Give Corrective Feedback to a Baby Boomer, when you are the Millenial Boss? Yes, a much younger person trying to lecture to an experienced one? I’m talking to my dad, professional speaker Larry Johnson. He is a co-author of the best-selling an absolutely fabulous book ‘Absolute Honesty’. When a Millennial Is Your Boss… Read More >>
The Generation X Management Style – What You Need to Know
Recently a reporter asked me about the Generation X management style – what type of managers are Gen Xers? What is the Generation X Management Style? I thought to myself: “Gen Xers as managers? What? No way! We’re too young to be managers! We can’t be managers! We’re still too new. We’re too young or… Read More >>
Mentoring Millennials – What Does Mentoring Mean to Millennials
Mentoring Millennials should be a part of every organization, especially if you want to retain your millennial employees! Here is why: According to Deloitte study, 64% of millennials plan to see their current job in their ‘rearview mirror’ by the year 2020. What does that mean? It means that in less than two years 64% of… Read More >>
Understanding Generations in the Workplace – the Point of No Return
Understanding Generations is not always an easy task! I was honored to be a keynote speaker for the facility management fusion conference in Chicago. While I was attending the conference, I was fortunate enough to see another speaker. Her name is Alexis Thompson and you can find her on her Facebook page titled ‘Trybal Performance’.… Read More >>
Baby Boomers and Technology
Baby Boomers and Technology… Raise your hand if you’re a baby boomer! Not sure? If you were born between 1946 and 1964, then the answer is yes, you are a baby boomer! Your generation is 77 million strong. We had never seen such a boom in the birth rate ‘till we got to the baby… Read More >>
What You Need to Know About Generation X
Generation X… Raise your hand if you are a Gen X’er. These are the people born between 1965 and 1980. I am a Gen X’er. What You Need to Know About Generation X Fun Facts About Generation X In fact, when I first heard this term Generation X, I liked it. I thought it sounded mysterious,… Read More >>
Engage Millennials with Personalization
Customization! That was a big buzzword with baby boomers and Gen Xers. It was about making someone’s experience customized, but now it’s not so much about customization, but personalization. Especially when it comes to the millennial generation. Engage millennials with personalization! Millennials, people born after 1980. They are currently the largest generational section of the… Read More >>
Managing Millennials in the Workplace
When it comes to managing millennials in the workplace, the leaders and managers of the organizations have a responsibility to engage as well. According to a recent study, 60% of the millennial generation wants to be learning something new at work. Also, 64% of the millennials want to feel that their work is valued by their… Read More >>
Managing and Motivating Millennials
What does Managing and Motivating Millennials look like in your workplace? Millenials truly want to make a difference in the workplace and they want to challenge the old ways of thinking. According to a recent survey, the Millenial generation is the largest generation in the workforce. They believe that innovations are being stifled by managements attitude.… Read More >>
Millennial Employee Retention
What does the Millennial Employee Retention mean and what is the strategy to achieve it? What are Millennials looking for when they start their career paths? I’m a professional speaker, generational expert, and generational humorist. I speak to groups, associations, and corporations like yours about the ever-changing generational dynamic that is blowing through our workforce, our corporations… Read More >>
How to Attract and Retain Millennial Employees
How to attract and retain Millennial Employees in your company or organization? Let me show you how… How to Attract and Retain Millennial Employees in the Industry that isn’t Sexy? The insurance industry, medical coding, procurement, manufacturing, construction… What do all these industries have in common? All of them report attracting and retaining millennial employees… Read More >>
Generational Issues in the Workplace
Generational Issues are not uncommon – they happen often. We need to understand what happens, why it happens and what we can do to avoid it. As a professional speaker and generational humorist, I am lucky to hear and witness some incredible generational stories and anecdotes. I am allowed to be a bit of a… Read More >>
Make Way – The New Generation Z is here!
Generation Z, iGen, Those Darn Kids. Whatever you call them, Generation Z – the youngest generation is changing the rules, challenging our boundaries and recreating a generationally cohesive workforce! My first job in high school was working at a grim bagel shop called the Bagel Baker. This was pre-Starbucks, where being a barista has an… Read More >>