Millennial Insights

Millennial Workplace Expectations: Avoiding Generational Stereotypes What do millennials want in the workplace? The question has generated years of surveys, conference sessions and management advice. It has also produced a long list of generalizations about how millennials communicate, collaborate, respond to feedback and define professional success. The problem is that millennials are not one type

Managing Different Work Styles: What Leaders Can Learn From the Tortoise and the Hare Managing different work styles requires leaders to understand what drives each employee. Some professionals thrive on speed, variety, and immediate results. Others prefer a steady process, careful analysis, and longer-term goals. Neither approach is inherently better. Strong managers recognize these differences,

Teamwork in the Workplace: How Leaders Make It Work Most organizations say they value teamwork. Fewer define what effective teamwork in the workplace should look like in practice. Putting employees on the same project does not automatically create a team. Neither does scheduling more meetings, adding collaboration tools or asking people to work together more

Humor in the Workplace: When It Helps and When It Hurts Humor in the workplace can make a leader appear approachable, confident and human. It can reduce tension, create connection and help an audience remember an important message. But humor is also one of the most audience-dependent forms of communication. A comment that feels harmless