How do you effectively motivate Millennials? The question has challenged
managers for years, even decades. And now, members of this generation,
born as early as 1977 depending on your definition, have become managers
themselves. Millennials' high expectations of their workplace and its
leadership, as well as their eagerness to hop from job to job, has not
mellowed with time-instead, it's become the new standard for all
generations in the workplace making it more important than ever to know
how to get strong performances from these workers.
To better understand how motivating Millennials has evolved, we spoke
with a pair of experts who know this generation well: Bruce Tulgan,
founder and CEO of RainmakerThinking, Inc., a management research and training firm, as well as the author of several books including The 27 Challenges Managers Face and Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Millennials; and Cord Himelstein, vice president of marketing and communications for HALO Recognition,
who has worked to understand the specific awards and types of programs
that appeal to these workers. These thought leaders helped get us inside
the minds of this group, and to appreciate the lessons this tells us
about managing other generations in the workplace, whether Boomers, Gen X
or the incoming Generation Z. Communication, customization, and the
right rewards all play a role. Listen on to find out how.