Trent Sherrell's List: Leadership Thoughts

• Not only are millennials the talent pipeline for the future, often their digital-first viewpoint is something big, stodgy shops sorely need.
• Millennials rarely think of their careers as ascending in a linear fashion. Instead they choose to zig and zag in a seemingly haphazard way, which makes it harder to keep them around. At Mullen, turnover rate hovers at 25 percent, just as it is at many other agencies. It’s the No. 1 problem on agency leaders’ minds, they report.

  • For continued leadership training, perhaps I should seek out information on to keep Millennials engaged and happy in their work.
• It gives employees a set allowance they can use to train themselves. And those educational opportunities — improv classes, banjo lessons — don’t have to be about client services or even advertising.

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