Travis Robertson

Late last week, I received an email from my friend Bobbi Howe. She’s a real estate agent in Saint Joseph, MO, and one of the coolest people I’ve never met in real life. I was introduced to her thanks to my friend Brian Copeland and a webinar I did early in February for the Council of Residential Specialists on The Millennial Revolution.

Bobbi recently moderated a panel called Bridging the Gap (Gen X/Y) at a big event called Sell-a-bration. After the session was over, a gentleman in his 60′s approached her and recounted a story of a female Millennial in his company who told him, “I can learn everything I need to off the internet and you cannot teach me anything.”

Bobbi was curious if I had any resources or research on this seeming arrogance. Given that I hear stories like this so frequently, I thought I’d share with you the same things I shared with her.

The Millennial Revolution is happening whether leaders within organizations choose to acknowledge it or not. In this e-book, you will learn three things that every organization must do if they wish to attract, hire, and retain the best workers of the Millennial generation. It’s all free and you’ll get an MP3 to boot!

Oh…YouTube…and Digg…and Facebook…and anything else that lets me vote. Thank you for teaching us a valuable lesson about Millennials and how to understand my generation.

If you manage or work with Millennials, take a second to look at all of the sites where Millennials spend so much of their time and ask yourself one thing: “Why do they all have some sort of voting or ‘like’ feature?”

Coming off my last week of looking at Millennials in the workplace, I want to tackle the idea of “working for” vs. “working with.” Understanding this concept will be critical to attracting and retaining Millennials.

When polled, Millennials consistently respond that fiscal motivators don’t matter to them once their basic needs are met. Instead, they place three things above monetary rewards as the most important part of their job.

Yesterday’s post spawned some great discussion in the comments thread. Thank you to those who are contributing to the conversation!

We’re going to jump into the meat today and begin examining how companies can attract, hire and retain Millennial employees.

The next five days on this blog are going to be an experiment and I’m going to come right out and ask for your help.