The New Work Ethic: Why Even the Most Talented Young Employees Are Overcomplaining and Underperforming, and What to Do About It!

Presented by: Eric Chester, Founder, Generation Why, Inc. and Author, Employing Generation Why

This pre-recorded webinar is available on our digital archive! SEE BELOW!

About The Session

Imagine: You pull out all the stops and pay an obscene signing bonus to land the top grad. On his first day, he shows up late to meet with the CEO. Another prized recruit rocks your culture by wearing a micro mini-skirt and halter to a lunch with your longstanding client. Your young IT guy grows bored of explaining the proper login procedure to a senior manager and calls her a moron in front of her team.

What good is it to win the talent wars if the talent you’ve won arrives with a bad attitude and a lousy work ethic?

This session will reveal the ever-widening expectation gap between employers and the emerging workforce, and what educators and business leaders can do—and are doing—to  bridge it.

Session Outline

• The deadly erosion of America’s work ethic
• What today’s managers expect of new recruits, and why they’re disappointed
• Why being book-smart and techno savvy isn’t enough
• Five Common Assumptions about Gen Y talent that are DEAD WRONG
• Why education and corporate training need to be reinvented
• Best Practices - What top institutions and organizations are doing to build work ethic and get the emerging workforce to go ‘all in’

About The Presenter

Eric Chester is an originator in the Gen-Y expert arena. As a former teacher-and-coach-turned-motivational-speaker-for-youth, Eric’s spent thirty years in the school-to-work space preparing teens for the real world, and preparing educators and employers for the next generation of students and employees. He’s not an academic, but an in-the-trenches expert who has personally addressed more than two million high school and college students, authored nine books for teens, and is dialed-in to the mindset of this burgeoning generation.

Chester frequently appears on national media (Good Morning America, MSNBC, FoxNews, CNN, ABC News 20/20, etc.) and is interviewed in major publications (Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Business Week, Workforce Magazine, etc.) to provide insight and perspective to business leaders, owners, and operators. He’s worked with leading organizations like Wells Fargo, Harley-Davidson, Ohio State University, the US Army, McDonald’s, and Allstate Insurance, presenting innovative strategies for recruiting, training, managing, motivating, and retaining 16-to-24-year-olds.

This presentation was part of the Intern Bridge Managing Millennials Online Conference.

The cost of this archived program is $75.

All you need to view the webinar is Windows Media Player!