Motivating & Leading Millennial Employees with Chris Tuff.
Motivating & leading Millennial employees in your small business, with Chris Tuff. Chris is an entrepreneur and author of “The Millennial Whisperer: The Practical, Profit-Focused Playbook for Working With and Motivating the World’s Largest Generation”. Chris shares his experience, insights and practical tips to help us better manage and lead our millennial workforce.
Chris Tuff is an entrepreneur, author of USA Today bestseller “The Millennial Whisperer” and the Executive VP of Content Marketing & Partnerships and 22squared – an employee-owned advertising agency.
In his book, Chris offers research-based, time-tested strategies for bridging communication gaps between Millennials and the rest of the workforce. With Millennials on track to make up 75% of the workforce by 2030, it’s crucial for employers to harness the strengths of this generation and help develop strong leaders for future generations. Chris debunks myths about Millennials, while providing an in-depth look at generational stereotypes that do tend to be true. He’ll share practical, real-world tested solutions to better understand Millennials and effectively recruit, retain, and motivate this passionate generation.
Chris lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
Motivating & Leading Millennial Employees with Chris Tuff
Episode Host: Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and the host of this episode of The How of Business podcast show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business.
- What drove you to developing these strategies and tactics for leading Millennial employees which then led to the book?
- 8 creative ways to keep Millennials engaged at work – please share one of two of these that apply well to small business owners.
- 12 things every company needs to know about motivating Millennials – please share a couple that are most relevant to small business owners.
- Why every employee (not just Millennials) should create a personal purpose statement.
- 6 ways the business landscape will change as Baby Boomers retire and Millennials take over – please highlight a couple that will most affect small business owners.
- 5 reasons why encouraging side hustles is not only safe, but BENEFICIAL for your company. Does this include a side-business, or just volunteer projects?
- What are your thoughts on restricting cell phone use at work?
- Experiences versus things. How do we help satisfy this desire as employers?
- “Experiences are an investment in social capital.”
- “This generation bounces around a lot. Do that…”
- “Millennials are not the problem; they just exposed the problem.”
- Please share your personal “Success Metric”.
- As a small business owner, where do I start with improving communication gaps between generations at my workplace?
More About the Book: The Millennial Whisperer
Written by a leader for leaders, The Millennial Whisperer shares proven, profit-driven strategies for leading millennials in the workforce.
The Millennial generation is the largest, most diverse generation in the history of the United States. They will make up 75 percent of the workforce by 2030. Unfortunately, Millennials made a poor first impression in the business world, developing the reputation of being lazy, entitled, selfish, and disloyal. The truth is, Millennials are no lazier or more entitled, selfish, or disloyal than any previous generation; they just grew up with different experiences than older generations and are motivated by different things.
In The Millennial Whisperer, Chris Tuff puts into context the ways Millennials differ from previous generations and shares practical steps companies and leaders can take to immediately boost productivity without building an office full of ping pong tables, beer kegs, and participation trophies. Chris provides practical ways for leaders to build a corporate culture in which Millennials can thrive, establish effective rewards systems at lower cost, address disciplinary methods effectively, and more! Get ready to turn your conference room back into a conference room, bring the beer kegs home for your next birthday bash, and put the participation trophies in the trash where they belong.
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