Millennials have made a huge impact in the workplace. They have set trends and they have broken some workplace boundaries too. On the same note, they are also a bunch of versatile and dynamic people, who are ambitious and effective. Working with millennials however, comes with its own set of challenges, and to make your life easier, here are some research-backed ways of working productively with millennials.
Ensure trust and transparency
Millennials are all for working hard and not cutting corners if they know that you can be trusted and are being transparent with them. On the other hand they would also like to feel that they are being trusted. They would, for example, like to know the truth about the challenges ahead rather than being kept in the dark and then having it drop down on them without warning. If you are good at building and communicating trust and transparency, millennials will find it easy to work with you.
Engagement and connection
Millennials want to feel like part of the team. Collaboration is important to this group of workers. The pandemic has made that more difficult, which means business owners must make sure employee engagement is still high. Left unchecked, disengagement could hurt productivity. So perhaps while you work from home, keep in touch with them, have regular or even short and interesting daily staff meetups, and ask them for feedback often.
Inspiration and interest
Millennials have a tendency to get bored sooner than previous work groups. Therefore it is very important that they feel inspired and interested in the work that they do. You may not always be sure of how you can facilitate this, but one great way would be to make training and development available to them. You can also give them a variety of things to look into and perhaps have more conceptualizing and brainstorming sessions.
At the end of the day, millennials can add a lot of value to your business. So if you know how to handle them and get them to work with you, you will benefit from the investment you have made in them.
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