Travis Robertson

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.

If you want to attract and retain Millennials, you are going to have to overhaul your company’s culture. Let me just spoil the surprise: almost everything you’re doing right now is repelling them.

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.

We’ve all heard the axiom “Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he’ll never go hungry.”

What happens if the man you’re trying to teach to fish doesn’t want to learn to fish? Instead, he wants you to catch him a fish each day. What do you do?

Do you want to know what one of my least favorite beginnings to a sentence is?

“I’m going to…”

Those three words tend to say a lot about a person in that moment.

Almost every day, I speak with people who work with ideas. They are responsible for communicating those ideas to clients, customers or coworkers. Maybe it’s the plan for a new department. Maybe it’s how a software product can fix a decade-old problem in a local government. No matter what it is, they are responsible for clearly communicating something so that people can act appropriately on that information.