Millennials Behind the Wheel: Are They Ready to Become Leaders?
Today’s workplace chooses leaders not by their age but by their skills, performance, and perspectives. Millennials are well-educated, outgoing, ambitious, mobile, and internationally diversified, rendering the view of them being the most selfish and demanding generation inaccurate.
According to the Robert Half report, 82% of respondents said that they were comfortable working with a supervisor who was younger. In fact, half of the millennials in the workforce hold leadership positions and 41% of them already have direct reports. If millennial workers were that bad, would they be leaders in the multigenerational workplace?
What to get ready for when Millennials are at the helm
- Work hard and enjoy flexibility. Working the 9-to-5 schedule is obsolete for millennials. They measure productivity not by the hours employees sit at their desk but by the actual results. They are proponents of fluid working hours and a possibility to work remotely. If you are at work, simply work smart and hard. Career advancement and your loyalty to a company won’t be measured just by your presence. Millennial leaders value work-life balance. Tim Hird, executive director of Robert Half Management Resources, says that for managers, it’s very important to offer their teams more freedom over where and when they work, as it improves job satisfaction and retention rates.
