There are more than 83 million millennials in the United States,
representing 36% of our workforce. By 2025, that number will grow to
75%. If millennials are not your employees yet, they will be soon-as
well as your biggest customers. Our ability to attract, train, manage
and retain this next generation of leaders is critical to the future
success of our businesses. But a huge and damaging connection,
communication, and understanding gap exists between non-millennials and
millennials in our workplaces. Why? Because millennials are not a
problem that needs to be fixed, they are an opportunity that needs to be
embraced. We must all find relevance in bridging the gap to create
next-generation leaders in all of us by: - creating powerful, authentic
relationships - promoting behavior that creates a culture of openness,
delivering value and shared purpose - teaching real-deal skills and
increasing individual accountability to drive sustained results
That's what Chasing Relevance
is about: being better leaders by guiding those millennials and letting
them guide us, having everyone be their best self by caring enough to
connect. The choice is clear: we need to care more about millennials by
pushing ourselves to be better leaders, coaches, and mentors. Because we
love them, we need them and we want them to succeed. It's time to stop
chasing relevance and make it happen.