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Adam Walsh - President 
Elby Professional Recruitment Inc.  www.elby.ca

Developing Millennial Leaders

Many companies have placed their focus on leadership, but at the same time, a lack of leadership continues to be a major challenge. If businesses are focusing on this issue, what is the problem?

 

Short Sighted When it Comes to Building Leadership 

One of the biggest problems that we see with training leaders, is the lack of long term commitment. A business wants to send their leaders to a few training events and hope for the best. Instead of developing a long term, continual plan, they invest a short period of time and hope for the best. In the Harford's 2014 Millennial Leadership Survey, Millennials said employers can most demonstrate their investment in them as a future leader by offering training and development (50%), a clear career path (35%), and ongoing coaching and feedback (34%).

 

It is important to make developing leaders a long term process. Consistency is key when it comes to training people in your organization.

 

Companies Hone in on Few Versus Many 

It is the natural tendency of companies to hone in on their top performers for leadership training. The problem with this approach, is that the team is weakened by lack of leadership exhibited across the board.

 

Instead of investing in just a handful, the leadership training should be expanded to include more staff. Developing the character traits of a leader are valuable for all of your team members.

 

Programs Are Overall Weak 

While many businesses say they have an emphasis on developing leadership, their strategies are overall weak. One of the largest problems is not holding their top level leadership responsible for identifying potential candidates to replace their position as they move up.

 

In addition to lack of accountability with top level leaders, the programs are not developed. There is little to no consistency with training and expectations.

 

Re-Think Your Strategy 

It is time to get serious about investing in our leaders. The strategy you've been using may not be what you need to stick with. Using different resources and materials may be exactly what you need to reach your leadership goals.

 

Also, it is important to understand your own business and the needs of your company before developing your strategy. It will take a collaborative effort from your team and your HR department to get your leadership development program in place.

 

It is vital that your HR department work to build an initiative that will develop leaders throughout the company. These efforts take time, energy and resources. However, it is worth it to the success of your business to have people in place that have these skills.

 

Leadership is a learnable skill and if we want the next generation to be great leaders, we have to teach them how to be great leaders.

 

If you have any questions about this article, contact us today! 855-979-1297 ~  www.elby.ca  

 

Written by our associate Gary Sorrell, Sorrell Associates, LLC. All rights reserved worldwide.  

How Social Media Is Impacting The Hiring Process

There is no doubt that the social media movement has greatly changed the way businesses run. This hits every aspect of a company, including the hiring process. Here is a look at how this type of engagement is shaping the way we hire new recruits.

 

What Does it Mean For Your Want Ads? 

With social engagement being the way it is, you can find many ways to advertise job positions. This can be done through your social media pages or on your website directly. You have the ability to put your posting out on venues where you are sure to find some potential candidates.

 

What Does it Mean For Potential Employees? 

It used to be if you wanted to know about a person's character, you had to talk with other people that know them.

Now, with social media, that is not as necessary as it once was. You can easily go onto someone's Facebook page or twitter feed to see what they are really about.

 

The types of posts that a person puts on their page will give you good indications of their personality. There are some red flags you can be on the lookout for when looking over candidates' posts. If they are trash talking their current job or others, you can be willing to bet they will do the same thing for you.


A lot of inappropriate content is also something to be concerned about. If you have the access to read what a potential employee is posting, so do your clients or customers. They can just as easily check out your employees posts and possibly pass judgement on your business values.

 

LinkedIn is a Professional Outlet 

LinkedIn is a great outlet for you to find people in your field. You can use these resources to search out potential candidates. This is an online resume for individuals and businesses. You can use this as a way to check out a person's qualifications.

 

What Does Social Media Mean For Your Business Profile? 

Just like it is important for individuals to be careful what they post on their social media pages, it is just as important that your business be careful. The types of information you post will give potential candidates an indication of what your company is about. You don't want to put off good employees to your business because of your tweets and Facebook posts.

 

As social media changes, businesses will need to conform. Those that choose not to conform will be at a disadvantage to those that are up on the latest trends.  

 

If you have any questions about this article, contact us today! 

  
Email 855-979-1297 ~  www.elby.ca   

 

Written by our associate Gary Sorrell, Sorrell Associates, LLC. All rights reserved worldwide.

Tell Others About Your Goals

In one of our previous issues we talked about goal setting and those who write down their goals tend to achieve them more often. This article continues on that path of motivation and goal setting success.

 

Another way to motivate yourself is to tell others about your goals. 

It works the same way as writing it down, in that it makes your vision clear about your goals and helps you commit to your goals. Indeed, telling others is an even bigger commitment than merely writing your goals down.

 

Think about it... 

Let's suppose you tell your family that you want to write an ebook. They'll probably ask you plenty of questions about your goals, which helps you focus on what you really want to achieve. But also, they'll probably ask you again in a few weeks or a few months. You just know they'll say something like, "How's that ebook coming along?"

 

That's a good kick-in-the-pants motivator right there! 

But you need to be careful with this strategy, however. That's because if you tell the wrong people, this strategy could actually backfire. Namely, if you tell "nay-sayers" and doubters about your goals, they'll come at you with so much negative talk that they could actually talk you out of your goals!

 

Bottom line: ONLY tell your goals, hopes and dreams to those you know who'll absolutely support you.

 

Here's To Your Goal Setting Success!

 

Need help setting & achieving your goals? Contact us today! 

 

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