by Jamie Notter | Nov 30, 2015 | Culture, Generational Diversity
100 million and 77%. The first number represents the number of Millennials in the United States. Only about half of them are in the workforce at the moment, and they will be the ONLY segment in the workforce that grows every year over the next decade (while the rest...
by Jamie Notter | Nov 18, 2015 | Generational Diversity, Inclusion and Diversity
I talk to a lot of people who worry about retaining Millennial employees. They are concerned that Millennials don’t want to stay in any one job for long–that they will jump to a new job in a matter of months or just a year or two. I have heard older...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 26, 2015 | Generational Diversity, Truth
Warning: this is a fairly long post that delves into numbers somewhat deeply. But here’s the good news: I’ve got some surprising revelations about the size of the different generations, so be patient and read through to the end! It is commonly stated that...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 20, 2015 | Change, Generational Diversity
It doesn’t take a lot of searching on the web to find essays, posts, and articles that declare generational differences a big lie. Many of them center around Millennials, particularly because that generation has been covered in the press with many different...
by Jamie Notter | Oct 8, 2015 | Generational Diversity, Inclusion and Diversity, Managing People
I spoke this week at the Direct Marketing Association’s annual meeting–twice actually: I did a “book club” session on When Millennials Take Over, and then I had a concurrent session on “What the Experienced Marketer Can Learn from...
by Jamie Notter | Jul 27, 2015 | Culture, Generational Diversity
When we did our interviews with Millennials as part of the research for When Millennials Take Over, we were struck by how…perplexed the Millennials were with the way organizations are run. They just don’t understand why they are forced to use outdated or...
