There are now more Millennials than Baby Boomers in the workforce. Further, 50% of those Millennials are already in leadership positions. Unfortunately they’re not ready. They have not received the training and development they need; and especially have not received the experience-based learning they need to develop the leadership skills that are most important in the world they are creating. It’s time for the Baby Boomers to stop fretting about managing Millennials and to focus on developing those Millennials’ leadership skills.
- Hire Millennials with the right talents for your organization.
- Give them appropriate classes, courses, reading, etc. to develop the knowledge they will need – about your business, customers, collaborators, capabilities, conditions and competitors.
- Put them into situations where they can get a set of experiences that allow them to build the skills they need to lead others in the new world.
The way Millennials lead and are going to lead is different than the way Baby Boomers lead. The point is not how this works for Baby Boomers. The point is how this works for leading Millenials, now the largest cohort in the workforce.