Hire, Retain, and Grow Top Millennial Talent
49mIntermediate2019-09-13
Authors

Lisa Earle McLeod
Keynote Speaker, Author, Consultant

Elizabeth Lotardo
Vice President of Client Services at McLeod & More, Inc.
Course details
More than one-in-three American workers today are millennials. By 2020, millennials will form 50% of the global workforce. The war for the best and brightest of the millennial generation is on now. Companies all over the world are fighting to hire and retain the best talent. Mother and daughter Lisa and Elizabeth McLeod address the challenges of hiring, retaining, and growing millennial talent in this course. They provide an insightful guide to help managers and leaders ask the right questions in interviews, communicate job expectations, and understand what salary and benefit options are likely to have the most impact. They also highlight the importance of social learning to any learning and development program, and the best communication methods to help millennials grow. Lastly, they outline techniques for providing performance feedback, what incentive plans work best, and how to detect if it is time to let a dissatisfied employee go.
Learning objectives
Identify information that should be included in job expectations.
Determine the best ways to engage millennials in face-to-face meetings.
Explain how to provide effective performance feedback.
Recognize incentives that will increase retention rates.
List three signs of employee disengagement.
Learning objectives
Identify information that should be included in job expectations.
Determine the best ways to engage millennials in face-to-face meetings.
Explain how to provide effective performance feedback.
Recognize incentives that will increase retention rates.
List three signs of employee disengagement.
Skills covered
Coaching and MentoringTalent ManagementHuman ResourcesLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Hiring across a new generation
1. Find Top Millennial Talent
- 02 - Framing the problem
- 03 - Interviewing to find top talent
- 04 - Communicating performance expectations
- 05 - Negotiating salary and benefits with millennials
2. Retain Top Millennial Talent
- 06 - Training using snippets
- 07 - Engaging millennials in a face-to-face meeting
- 08 - Reframe whining into a productive discussion
3. Grow without Giving Out Participant Ribbons
- 09 - Providing performance feedback
- 10 - Helping millennials manage their failure
4. Letting Go
- 11 - You can't fire me I quit
- 12 - Beware of the quit and stay
- 13 - Treat your employees like a number and they ll return the favor
Conclusion
- 14 - Next steps
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