Generation NeXt Goes to Work: Issues is Workplace Readiness and Performance from the 2007 Higher Learning Commission Collection of Papers. Click the link below to download the PDF of this April 2007 article on improving the workplace readiness of Gen NeXt.
Managing for Success in the Multigenerational Workplace
Generation NeXt Goes to Work
Issues of managing "mixed" generational groups, and the readiness of young people and recent graduates to enter the workforce, has become a major concern for many businesses- including colleges. Schools are also especially interested in how to best prepare students to got to work, and how to get everyone on campus on the same page that workforce readiness is a meaningful outcome goal for higher education.
Several larger schools, like Purdue and California State University at Sacramento, have invited me to present programs on just these issues. Organizations like the CUBOs (College and University Business Officers) are offering my sessions at their conferences regionally and nationally. Businesses, like 20th Century Fox, Wal-Mart, the U.S. Army and the University of Tennessee for the Medical Sciences Medical Center, who are launching initiatives to improve recruitment, retention and productivity of younger workers, and have worked with me as well. I have also worked with the users groups of higher education and high tech consultants like Rave Wireless, and the Institute for Professional Development.
If your school, conference or company would like more insight into managing the postmodern workplace and helping the new "consumer employee" find their productive place, please let me know.
