Interesting Re-Read of the Day

See... still so much information gathering going on in my little brain. 

http://www.workforce.com/articles/21004-millennial-in-training 

This needs some re-writing to be applicable. #edited ***

ORIGINAL: 

"Yet some companies are unprepared to deal with this rapidly unfolding generational shift in leadership. It’s all too easy to believe that current approaches for developing leaders will work for millennials — they won’t. A focus on leadership development as usual will leave you vulnerable to losing the best and brightest of your youthful workforce. You can embrace the challenge of doing what it really takes to develop millennial leaders or watch them walk out the door to head up a competitor’s operation."

MY VERSION: 

Most in the facility management industry are unprepared to deal with the rapidly unfolding generational shift. It’s all too easy to believe that current approaches for developing facility managers will work for millennials — they won’t. A focus on developed management, honed through years of experience, will leave the industry vulnerable to losing the best and brightest of the youthful workforce. The facility management industry MUST embrace the challenge of doing what it really takes to develop millennial facility managers or watch them walk out the door to another industry.

The article goes on to touch on: 

- adaptation of technology

- peer vs professional (need to go revisit this subject in another post)

- change management

- digital natives

- fluidity & collaboration

- soft management skills (see peer vs professional)

- "helping them, helps us"


***Just to be clear, I won't be using that paragraph in my thesis, but this is more a look into how I read an article and that information translates in my brain. Everything that I seem to pick up and read regarding millennials can all be translated into how it relates specifically to facility management. #truth