Meeting Expectation 5
Provide Ongoing Training and Learning Opportunities
• Clearly define the skills and knowledge that employees must learn in order to advance to the next project or level. Create a road map of ongoing learning opportunities that will keep your young workforce engaged. Once training opportunities dry up, so does Gen Y enthusiasm.
• Carefully develop customized learning plans to teach those skills “just in time.” Like older adults, Yers learn best when they know they’re going to use the learning immediately. “What’s going to be on the test?” is one of their favorite questions. That’s why training them for the short haul—for the next task, the next assignment—makes sense.
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