Surrounded by an environment that is rich in Social Media and creative platforms to express and explore, Millennials enter the workforce which are deprived of new age communication and idea generation technologies. No, Instance Messaging is NOT new age, it’s not Web 2.0 – giving access to IMs will not indulge the next generation to engage and speak out.
According to a recent study “The World’s Most Attractive Employers are Delivering What Millennials Want”, around the world, students are motivated by cre
ative and friendly workplaces. When the students were questions about their employment preferences, “a creative and dynamic work environment” was the #1 most desirable attribute for engineering students globally, and #4 for business students. “A friendly work environment” is also important, placing #6 for engineers and #5 for business students.
ative and friendly workplaces. When the students were questions about their employment preferences, “a creative and dynamic work environment” was the #1 most desirable attribute for engineering students globally, and #4 for business students. “A friendly work environment” is also important, placing #6 for engineers and #5 for business students.
Come on now, open those traditional doors and let the creative ideas flow and be friendlier to the generation that has just joined or will soon be joining workforce.
Allow for planned spaces wherein millennials can work collaboratively without formal strings, let their imagination lose and build innovations. Create open spaces.Regarding open spaces, there is something special, as evidenced at Bell Labs, about meetings in the flesh. The founders of Intel created a sprawling, team-oriented open workspace where employees all rubbed against one another. It was a model that became common in Silicon Valley. Allow for lunch and learns or town hall sessions, rather than pushing millennial into a training room.
Also plan social technology platforms. Social learning technologies, when effectively harnessed, will enable your organization to continuously disseminate information and learning packets to a large number of employees in an immediate fashion and in a highly consumable format. These platforms will allow a dynamic online environment in which employees will be able to connect and socialize with peers and not only that, these platforms will act as incubators for idea generation and innovations.
According to a recent study, when done correctly, social learning can improve employee engagement by up to 2.6 times and increase performance 3 times more than formal training. So why wait, give your employees the same environment that they get outside their workplace, and see the performance and learning rise to the next level...Go Social …
