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Millennials 101

Millennials 101

From the course: Connecting with Your Millennial Manager

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Millennials 101

- Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of empowering and inspiring their lives. What a great reminder from Oprah that our success at work is so dependent on understanding and relating to the people we work with. Let's take a closer look and learn more about the millennials. As we learned earlier, they are the most highly educated generation in history. This is due to the increasingly competitive workforce where more training and more skills are required to get a good jobs and establish careers. You may have also heard that millennials are very purpose-driven. By some accounts, 90% of millennials would rather earn less money working for a company whose values they respect than get a raise and a promotion from a company they feel does not align with their ideals. When you factor in the economic challenges that this generation is experiencing,…

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