Published by Microsoft.com: Crystal Kadakia converts the myth of ‘lazy, entitled’ millennials into modern workplace strategies
by Vanessa Ho About seven years ago, Crystal Kadakia was a training manager at a Fortune 50 company when she began noticing negative media stories about millennials. She started to see simplistic charts that summed up entire generations – millennials, boomers, Generation X – in a few words. None of it conformed to what she knew. She decided to start Invati Consulting, an Atlanta-based company that helps...
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Podcast by Nonfiction4Life: In Depth Look at The Millennial Myth
Even as digital technology is disrupting workplace culture, Crystal Kadakia, author of The Millennial Myth: Transforming Misunderstanding into Workplace Breakthroughs, is aiming to solve the biggest human capital trend of our next decade: millennials in the workplace. To remain competitive, we not only need generational diversity; we need to embrace, harness, engage modern talent. As a thought leader and...
Read MoreThe #1 Missing Ingredient in Your Company’s Millennial Retention Strategy
Priyan, 26, was the golden child at his Fortune 500 financial services firm. Everyone knew it, and the numbers showed it, so nobody was surprised when his boss excitedly pulled him into the VP’s office to deliver good news. After listing Priyan’s accomplishments, his boss’ boss gave the floor to the VP. “Priyan, soon you’ll have my job. You can even have this unnecessarily large office if you’d like” she...
Read MoreTop 10 Reasons to Support the Launch of The Millennial Myth
#1 To spread my philosophy that makes the conversation throughout the workplace less about Millennials, and more about digital behavior. Stop complaining and start modernizing already! #2 To watch rankings soar #3 Because you absolutely need more of this #4 And you want to be able to post this: #5 Or this: #6 To keep my book’s place next to well-known authors #7 You want more of this. #8 To leave an...
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An Inside Look at The Millennial Myth: Transforming Misunderstanding into Workplace Breakthroughs
Cats and dogs…oil and water…red states and blue…all are catchphrases that instantly convey opposition, difference, conflict. How about millennials and baby boomers? Was your immediate reaction, “Yup, them too”? In the workplace, where older and younger generations engage side by side on a daily basis, are we destined to hold opposing visions of what it means to be an effective, productive...
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Masie Asks How To Teach Ambiguity? My Response: Use Your Millennials.
Elliot Masie asked a great question in his Learning Trends newsletter this past week: “AMBIGUITY = Embrace & Honor the Grey Area for Learning: Most instructional design is about the RIGHT answer. Standard Operating Procedures define that CORRECT approach to a problem. The vast majority of e-Learning modules test out for the learner’s ability to check the RIGHT box. But, sometimes there is not a...
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Voice of the Millennial: Workplace Culture Analysis of the Retail/Customer Service Sector
As we learned from our recent guest post author, Bill Latta, the sales industry has always been a tough nut to crack for all generations. Burnout in the sales industry is always an issue, regardless of generation. But as 15 executives shared this week regarding their first jobs, you’ve gotta start somewhere. However, Millennials are growing up and entering the workforce in a different world, where...
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Not Cut From the Same Cloth: What You Need To Engage Millennials in Sales/Customer Service Roles
The retail industry employs around 14.4 million people in the US and retail consumption represents ~66% of GDP. Millennials, with a 35% underemployment rate, find themselves often in sales roles, in retail as well as other customer-facing, repetitive work roles such as call center work. But are Millennials engaged in these jobs? The retail industry has the highest rate of employee turnover of all...
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