{"id":3566,"date":"2017-03-31T15:12:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2017\/03\/31\/business-in-the-millennial-world\/"},"modified":"2021-07-15T04:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T08:07:09","slug":"business-millennial-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/business-millennial-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Business In The Millennial World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Sinek\u2019s viral video rant on millennials in the workplace is interesting\u00a0from beginning to end. \u00a0Perhaps a bit condescending to millennials in many parts, but important in how it captures perceptions of millennials and challenges in our technology-driven world.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>There are three aspects of this video that I think procurement professionals need to pay attention to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The culture in which millennials have grown up. \u00a0<\/strong>Without an understanding of today\u2019s culture, it can be impossible to lead a procurement team and millennials well.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How a leader that cares about the employee can be a corporate advantage.<\/strong> \u00a0I refuse to accept that \u201ccompanies only care about the numbers, not the people.\u201d \u00a0A good leader can make employees feel cared about and, often, that motivates better performance for the benefit of the company.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The etiquette of smart phones in conference rooms.<\/strong> \u00a0I don\u2019t think that spending more time on one\u2019s phone is a millennial-specific problem. \u00a0There are plenty of Gen X\u2019ers who also pay too much attention to their phones in business, social, and social business settings. \u00a0I think that there should be leader-driven guidelines on phone use in meetings. \u00a0I don\u2019t think we are policing ourselves well enough.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I won\u2019t give too much more of the video away if you haven\u2019t watched it. \u00a0Instead, I encourage you to watch it and form your own opinions on what Sinek has to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Sinek\u2019s viral video rant on millennials in the workplace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - 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