Julie Cook Ramirez writes on the career development needs millennials expect. Eighty-seven percent of them rate professional or career growth and development opportunities as important in a job, with 59 percent saying opportunities to learn and grow are extremely important when applying for a position.
The employee-manager relationship is key to millennial development, according to Gallup, which found millennials would rather have a coach than a boss. According to Danielle Monaghan with Amazon, young workers are putting a new spin on the coaching relationship. “You’re not really giving them orders [so much as] telling them what to achieve and then they tell you how they’ll achieve it,” she says.
Source: Human Resource Executive, October 2, 2017. Page 10.
In a very elegant and graceful way, millennials are pushing Gen-X’ers and boomers to continue to learn and build their skills,” says Lisa Buckingham, Lincoln Financial.
INSIGHTS: We have long been a relational industry where opportunities and trust are built over years of interactions and hundreds of transactions. Territory turnover and new hire development can take up to 24 months to begin to see the investments in new hires begin to pay. The small business or cottage industry resources of private practices or independent retailers will be stretched significantly if retaining millennial employees is not a focus. The thinking in this article may challenge our animal health industry at its core