I know. I know. It's almost 2015, we're 10 years away from the 2025 "BOOM". But I feel the need to discuss it.
There are a lot of preconceived notions of what it takes to train and teach a millennial. "They are a hard beast to tame." Or to quote Entrepreneur "Myth: Millennials can't tear themselves away from their smartphones or Facebook long enough to hold a conversation with clients or co-workers." orrrrr "They have the attention span of gnats."
There are a lot of preconceived notions of what it takes to train and teach a millennial. "They are a hard beast to tame." Or to quote Entrepreneur "Myth: Millennials can't tear themselves away from their smartphones or Facebook long enough to hold a conversation with clients or co-workers." orrrrr "They have the attention span of gnats."
There has been research done (The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking - Here on Amazon.com) that points to the fact that the brain of the Millennials [digital natives] has and is still altering or as the author [Marc Prensky pg 12] describes it: Neuroplacticity - "stimulation of various kinds actually changes the brain structures and affects the way people think... the brain constantly reorganizes itself all of our child and adult lives." A major differentiation between the boomer generation and the millennial, is the use of technology that rapidly changes, causes adaptation, causes the brain to constantly be changing. Prensky's article then goes into discussing that the attention span of the digital natives is there, but its more that we choose to pay attention or not; we learn in bursts, but our short comings are that we don't take the time to fully process the information that we have learned.
Then there is THIS article: MIT Researcher’s New Warning: At Today’s Rate, Half Of All U.S. Children Will Be Autistic By 2025
75% of the workforce will consist of millennials by 2025...
50% of the population will have Autism by 2025...
Does this mean that 1/3 of the workforce will have autism? (I'm terrible at math.)
If we can't adapt and figure out how to hire, manage, and retain millennials now, if Dr. Seneff's research proves to be right, how are we going to be hire, manage, and retain millennials that are on the autistic spectrum? I know this is probably a far reach connecting these two dots, but 2025 isn't looking all that awesome.
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