Graduates and Early Career employees: they\u2019re the future of your business. If you\u2019ve recruited them in the last 20 years or so, it stands a chance you\u2019ve been recruiting Millennials. But times are changing, and your future superstars are going to be Gen Zers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well, the start and end of these groups is a bit blurry (you\u2019ll often see different years cited as the beginning of the Gen Z group), but generally it\u2019s agreed to be the mid- to late-nineties. Different demographic groups typically have different priorities, upbringings and aspirations. This means they\u2019ll want different things from their employer and career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a comparison of the differences between Millennials and Gen Zers according to research:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n 71% of leaders are concerned about how Gen Z will fit in at work, so what do you need to do to make the shift?<\/p>\n\n\n\n A good manager can improve the performance of employees by up to 26% and triple the likelihood that their direct reports will be high performer. The best management training doesn\u2019t focus on a single way to manage, it helps managers to understand how they come across as a manager, and how to adapt their style when necessary. Not only will this be valuable for managing Gen Zers, it will have huge benefits for all managers. Managers are already speculating about the challenges Gen Z employees will bring including their:<\/p>\n\n\n\n When you read this list, the challenges are all based around soft-skills and behavior. If these are challenges you\u2019re worried about, why not put something in place to overcome them? Another benefit of using a development program is that it answers an employee\u2019s need for development and ongoing learning! With the influx of Gen Z into the working world, how are you preparing your workforce?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Graduates and Early Career employees: they\u2019re the future of your business. If you\u2019ve recruited them in the last 20 years or so, it stands a chance you\u2019ve been recruiting Millennials. But times are changing, and your future superstars are going to be Gen Zers. So, how do demographic groups affect recruitment? Well, the start and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[20,21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-employer-news","category-top-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Millennials <\/strong><\/td> Gen Z<\/strong><\/td><\/tr> \u00b7 Want to get to the top of the career ladder ASAP
\u00b7 Desire to be successful in a business
\u00b7 Progress
\u00b7 Achieving a work-life balance
\u00b7 Focused on team work
\u00b7 Optimistic <\/td>\u00b7 Want to get to the top of the career ladder, but at their own pace
\u00b7 Wish to own a successful business
\u00b7 Having flexibility in how they work
\u00b7 Innovation
\u00b7 More independent workers
\u00b7 Realistic <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\nGet your managers up to speed<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Scarily, only 8% of organizations are investing in training to prepare managers with the skills to effectively handle Gen Z employees, yet 78% of managers don\u2019t feel prepared for managing Gen Zers!
A good manager should be able to adapt to manage any report. However, a lot of management training revolves around the best \u2018generic\u2019 way to manage people – this approach doesn\u2019t work for every employee!
Research shows that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Programs such as our Empowered Leaders Program use blended learning to focus on the behavior, skills and knowledge that will develop effective management and leadership capability, rather than just using classroom sessions and hypothetical learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\nSolve challenges before they become a problem<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Programs like our Aspiring Leaders Program and Emerging Leaders Program focus on developing your employees in these areas, increasing self-awareness, communication and business-related knowledge and skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\nGive your new employees what they ask for<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Gen Z\u2019s top career priority is a stable career path, with 89% of Gen Zers saying this is important or very important to them. Alongside this, 23% of Gen Z candidates say that development opportunities are a top attraction point for a company and role.
This is a win-win situation; your employees want to be developed and given the skills to progress within your business. On top of that, your business will see huge benefits to developing your early career talent, including better results, faster progression to optimum productivity and better retention rates \u2013 in fact, 29% of Gen Z employees said they would stay at a job for more than 3 years if it had an empowering work culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\nRelated articles:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n