 of Millennials. Are you ready to accommodate their values, needs and expectations?
80% of Millennials would prefer real-time feedback over traditional performance reviews.
Employee performance reviews have the potential to increase engagement, lower turnover and create a goal-aligned workforce if done correctly. Formal or traditional performance reviews have proven ineffective for a number of reasons.
They don’t address issues or successes in a timely manner.
They tend to skew toward the negative, or what workers can get better at, and leave out the praise part.
These large, spread out reviews or meetings end up being a monster of a task to carry out.
The large time gaps between reviews don’t foster talent and goal alignment.
For these reasons and many more, real-time feedback is preferred by workers and has proven to be more effective. What good is feedback, 3 months after the project is finalized? Mentorship programs lend themselves to this type of continuous feedback.
53% of Millennials feel a mentorship relationship with their manager would improve their value and productivity.
Most Millennials in the workforce today have what is referred to as a “patchwork career path.” They came into the workforce at a time of great instability, they have job-hopped, been through mass lay-offs and learned to adapt. They need roots and guidance, and mentorships programs are exactly the place to start.
In 2005, 9% of people 18-29 used social networks. In 2013, 89% of them used social networks.
Social media is a major part of this Millennial generation. Employers need to learn that social media is more than Candy Crush and Tweets. Social networks used as workplace communication tools can be invaluable. In fact, about 40% of Millennials would even pay out-of-pocket for social tools to increase efficiency. The employer’s best bet is to embrace social in the workplace, foster brand ambassadorship and craft empowering, yet safe social media policies.
The landscape of the emerging workforce is looking very different, very rapidly. In order to stay ahead in the competitive areas of attraction and retention, employers have to get proactive about crafting a workplace that will be attractive to their current and upcoming workforce.
This large of a shift will inevitably require change, which isn’t always met with open arms. However, each of these actions bring with them sound benefits for any organization. Between more effective reviews, improving communication and embracing social, things ahead are looking bright.
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Maren Hogan is a seasoned marketer and community builder in the HR and Recruiting industry. She leads Red Branch Media, an agency offering marketing strategy and content development. A consistent advocate of next generation marketing techniques, Hogan has built successful online communities, deployed brand strategies in both the B2B and B2C sectors, and been a prolific contributor of thought leadership in the global recruitment and talent space. Hogan speaks and writes on all career and workforce related subjects. Her clients include Fortune 500 companies and SMBs around the globe. Red Branch Media was formed in 2006 as a simple consultancy. Today, the firm is a full-service B2B Marketing Agency that serves clients in the U.K., Africa, China, Israel, Europe and North America. Primarily focused on the Human Resources and Global Workforce vendors, Red Branch Media handles clients of all shapes and sizes.My favorite landscape was the Safari ride which was full of soft grasses and beautiful succulents.
I must get a Lego zebra for my next garden installation!
One of Parker's friends happened to be going to Legoland for Spring Break too so he was fortunate to have a partner in crime.
Some familiar scenes from home, plus I love how some of the plants are represented in miniature:
The gardeners:
And some more amusing scenes:
But why does the George Washington on Mount Rushmore look like he's about to upchuck?
For you Star Wars fans out there:
This is great. I had no idea legoland had models like these. I guess I should have guessed, but anyways they're really interesting. Makes me think I need to start making models and using legos for the architectural elements.Introducing Fedora Core 5 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Understand the differences between the community (Fedora) and commercial (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) versions of Red Hat Linux.
Technical people have chosen Red Hat Linux because of its reputation for solid performance. With the Fedora Project, Red Hat has created an environment where open source developers can bring high-quality software packages to Red Hat Linux that would be beyond the resources of Red Hat, Inc. to test and maintain on its own. Over 2200 individual software packages (compared to just over 600 in Red Hat Linux 6.2) are included in Fedora Core 5. These packages contain features that would cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars to duplicate if you bought them as separate commercial products. These features let.
- Connect your computers to a LAN or the Internet.
- Create documents and publish your work on paper or on the Web.
- Work with multimedia content to manipulate images, play music files, view video, and even master and burn your own CDs and DVD.
- Play games individually or over a network.
- Communicate over the Internet using a variety of Web tools for browsing, chatting, transferring files, participating in newsgroups, and sending and receiving e-mail.
- Protect your computing resources by having Fedora or RHEL act as a firewall or a router to protect against intruders coming in through public networks.
- Configure a computer to act as a network server, such as a print server, Web server, file server, mail server, news server, and a database server.
This is just a partial list of what you can do with Fedora or RHEL. Using this book as your guide, you will find that there are many more features built into Fedora and RHEL as well. Support for new video cards, network cards, printers and storage devices Fedora is out doesn't mean that you need all new hardware for it to run. Support for many old computer components get carried from one release to the next. With a Minimal install, you could use Fedora as a router (to route data between your LAN and the Internet), firewall (to protect your network from outside intrusion), or file server (to store shared files on your LAN) -- with maybe an Ethernet card or an extra hard disk added.
At this point, you may feel that Linux is something you want to try out. This brings us to the basic question: What isLife has been so freaking crazy. The last blog I wrote was on February 25th, meaning I would have been in Hobart, Tasmania. Sitting in a wooden booth at The Pickled Frog Hostel, to be more specific.
So life has felt a bit hectic these past few months. It’s been a whirlwind of travel, starting this random side career of freelance writing, beginning a journey towards another potential career of UX design, getting back to life as an au pair, trying to keep up my yoga practice….all while attempting to stay present and enjoy each fleeting moment. Because my time abroad is quickly coming to an end.
In less than two weeks I fly home. A few people have asked me if I am excited or dreading it. The true answer is both.
I am excited to see my family. To dance at my cousin’s wedding and celebrate my grandpa’s 90th birthday. I am excited to sleep in my bed and to have a closet full of clothes, as opposed to rotating through the same eight outfits. I am excited to eat Chipotle and Cracker Barrel. Don’t judge me, their pancakes are delicious. So buttery.
Anywho, yes, I am excited to come home.
But I am also dreading saying goodbye to the new family and friends I have here. I am dreading not being within five meters of amazing sushi at all times. Or really any denomination of Asian food, for that matter. I am apprehensive about drinking coffee in the States because I think Australia might have made me a bit of a coffee snob. I don’t know where I will be able to buy a soy flat white every day? And I am not looking forward to readjusting to driving on the right side of the road.
But the biggest feeling isn’t excitement or dread. It’s just that I have changed. And it’s always hard going home after traveling since few people, if anyone, can relate to the experience. I’ll try explain what I have seen and done, but there is really no conceivable way to do it justice. It’s all too far from normal to make sense.
And that’s the struggle. Going home different and thinking anything will be the same.
I woke up this morning with butterflies in my stomach. Today, for the very first time, I was scheduled to teach someone a private 2-hour yoga and meditation session. I was nervous but so freaking excited.
Last night I went through my journal from the yoga teacher training course. I reread my notes from our first classes on meditation. I searched through the Radiance Sutras and picked two techniques I thought would be perfect for a first-timer. I mentally rehearsed how the meeting would go. We’d spend the first hour diving into meditation: what he already knew about it, what meditation is versus what it isn’t, and then into the Sutra techniques we would go.
The second hour would be for asana. I planned to teach a sequence on forward folds, perfect for opening up hamstrings and hips- notoriously tight