Start a Next Generation Leader (NGL) Initiative that provides #1 engagement, productivity, and loyalty driver in the workplace: Development and Career Path Advancement

1. Align
Develop
Advance
Introducing Millennial Engagement &
Loyalty Drivers into the Workplace
Presented at:
23rd Annual Gulf States Engineering Conference
Gulf Shores, Alabama
June 24, 2019
Presented by:
Philip Zimmerman, PE, PCC
President, Engineering Leadership
ZIMMERMAN Coaching Group
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

2. HOT-OFF-THE
PRESS!
MAY 6, 2019
1.Development & Advancement Opportunities
2.Flexible Work Environment
3.Skills Underutilized/Underappreciated
4.Ambivalence Toward Company Mission
5.Personal Reason You May Never Know
#1 Top Millennial Engagement & Loyalty Driver
Since at Least 2010!
5 REASONS--OTHER THAN PAY
STAR EMPLOYEES LEAVE
Re: Refresh Leadership, May 6, 2019, in Executive Insight
http://www.refreshleadership.com/index.php/author/refresh-leadership/
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

3. SO WHAT?
THEIR WANTS
HAVE NOT
CHANGED BUT
THEIR PRESENCE
IN THE
WORKFORCE
HAS!
RUNNING THE NUMBERS
80M Boomers/45M Xers/80M Millennials
Millennials Began Entering Workforce In 2003
Boomers Began to Retire in 2011; Out in 2027
2016: Boomers Became Smallest Workforce Gen.
2019: Millennials Are 50% of U.S. Workforce
2025: Millennials Will Be 75% Workforce GloballyAlign – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

4. WHY
MILLENNIALS
HAVE NOT
GOTTEN WHAT
THEY’VE
WANTED SINCE
2010
Root Cause
Industrial Age Business Model Paradigm Mindset
Remains in the Workplace
Villain
Old Guard Maintaining
Industrial Age Business Model Paradigm
Industrial Age
Started in 1700’s/Began dying in 1960’s
Cratered in 1994/95 with NAFTA & WTO
Buried in 2001 with China entering WTO
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

5. MILLENNIALS
RAISED/NURTUR
ED/EDUCATED
TO BE
CONNECTED
AGE TALENT
BE A MILLENNIAL
HERO!
Connected Age
Began in 1960’s as Technology Age
Morphed in 1980’s w/Internet as Information Age
Established in 2006 w/Google as Connected Age
Will Be Fully Harmonized Globally by 2025
Hero’s
Company Leaders Who Unleash Millennials to
Develop and Advance; Completing Business Model
Paradigm Transformation to Connected Age
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

6. EMPLOYERS
EXPERIENCE IN
INDUSTRIAL AGE
WORKPLACE
External
No plan, time, commitment and/or resources
to align, develop, and advance Millennials
Internal
•Feels pressure to meet increasing demands
with dwindling qualified staff
•Out of ideas how to respond to morphing
client demands for creativity and innovation
•Afraid Top Millennial Talent will Leave
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

7. INDUSTRIAL
AGE
CATCH-22
LOSE – LOSE Philosophical Mindset
Industrial Age vs. Connected Age
Transformation
Do Nothing Thinking: Get work out now but
perish because of irrelevance in Connected Age
Do Something Thinking: Develop talent & delay
work getting out; perish for nonperformance
If you’re Thinking has you perishing either way –
DO SOMETHING!
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

8. YOU ARE NOT
ALONE IN
THIS
CHOOSE TO
BE A HERO!
TRANSFORMATION IS UNIVERSAL
All Industrial Age Business Model Companies
Experiencing Same Reality
Some are Doing Nothing leaving company fate
in hands of their clients and successors.
Some are Doing Something to ensure there is a
future for their clients and successors.
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

9. INSTITUTE OF
LEADERSHIP AT
DUNHAM
THE DUNHAM SCHOOL
800+ STUDENT
PRE-K TO 12 COLLEGE
PREPARATORY SCHOOL
BATON ROUGE, LA
Next Generation Leader (NGL) Initiative
• Introduced NGL Initiative to school Administrators
• Launched w/12 Faculty Mentors, 24 Juniors 2014
• Faculty & Senior Mentors & US Protégé’s 2015
• US Curriculum based servant leadership program
Take-Aways:
• Signature Distinctive of Dunham!
• Changed the Way Students LEAD!Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

10. BRIS ENGINEERING
(FORMERLY WINK ENGR.)
450+ EMPLOYEES
BATON ROUGE
NEW ORLEANS
HOUSTON
Next Generation Leader (NGL) Initiative
• Introduced NGL Initiative to Exec Team in 2017
• Business of the Business Topical Lunch & Learns
• In-House Trainers, Mentor/Coaches, NGL’s
• Launched March 2018; Last Module June 2019
• 2nd Wink Academy launching July 2019 (Double-sized)
Take-Aways:
• Best thing done for talent development ever!
• Engagement & Retention Magnet!Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

11. BROWN & ROOT
INDUSTRIAL SERVICES
11,000+ EMPLOYEES
LOCATIONS ACROSS
NORTH AMERICA
Super-Sized NGL Initiative for Parent Company
4 Business Units
Maintenance
Construction
Turnarounds
Specialty Services
Take-Aways:
• Talent development not optional
• Will become fabric of Brown & Root culture
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

12. BE A COMPANY
MILLENNIAL
TALENT LOVES!
A HERO’S
WELCOME
GIVING MILLENNIALS WHAT THEY WANT
Five-Steps to Develop and Advance
Connected Age Millennial Talent
1.Make a commitment to Develop talent
2.Create an Align/Develop/Advance plan
3.Internally and/or externally develop talent
4.Coach talent - Challenge/Assess/Support
5.Align & rapidly advance ready talent
No plan, time, commitment and/or resources –
Perfect Opportunity for a Hero to Step-Up!Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

13. Career-Path
Defined
Position
Aligned
Assignment
Empowered
Boldness
Engagement
Creative
Competence
Productivity
Innovative
Mastery
Loyalty
Respected
Visionary
MILLENNIAL
CAREER-PATH
DEVELOPMENT &
ADVANCEMENT
CYCLE
Getting
Started
Gaining
Understanding
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

14. CERTAIN
Aligned for
Known
Opportunities MOTIVATED
Developing
with Modules,
Coaching,
Feedback, and
Support
ENGAGED &
PRODUCTIVE
Model
Talent
DYNAMIC
Creating
Innovating
Actuating
ENERGIZED
Advancing at
Pace of
Development
VALUED
Connected Age
Engaged
Productive
Loyal Talent
UNLEASHED
MILLENNIALS
TRANSFORMED FOR
CONNECTED AGE
BUSINESS MODEL
HERO’S DELIGHT
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

15. ACT NOW OR
RISK COMPANY
PERISHING
HERO’S CAN
DO THIS
EASILY…
2-Steps to Hero’s Peace of Mind
1. Commit to Develop & Advance Millennial Talent
2. Get help with the rest
• Create an Align/Develop/Advance plan
• Identify openings & career paths
• Identify trainiers, mentor/coaches & NGL’s
• Internally and/or externally develop
• Coach talent - Challenge/Assess/Support
• Align, Develop & Advance
If you’re still not sure if you need to do something, I’d
be happy to schedule a discussion.Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

16. CREATE THE
COMPANY
WHERE ALL
GENERATIONS
WANT TO WORK
AND HAVE A
CAREER
HERO’S HOUSE
Connected Age Transformation
Senior Management: Keeping up not a concern and
having fun staying ahead in Creativity/Innovation
Middle Management: Impressing clients by continual
improvement in efficiencies and delivery
Millennial Talent: Engaged and Productive thru
Development by knowing why and how what they do
makes a difference. Loyalty leads to internal career-
path advancement
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

17. WHAT
MILLENNIALS
ARE DOING IN
THE
WORKPLACE
HERO’S FOCUS
Considering One of Four Options
• Do nothing and continue to wait in line
• Self-Develop & advance at own pace
• Take new job at a Connected Age company
• Self-Develop & start own company to totally
level Industrial Age competition
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

18. THE COST
OF OLD
GUARD
STATUS
QUO
HERO’S FOE
Pretty Simple
Develop or Lose Top Millennial Talent
Large Scale December 2018 Worker Survey’s
54% took current job within last year
52% plan to look for a new job in 2019
2018 Turnover at all time high – 19.3%
3 of 5 workers said they would take a 50% pay
cut to leave a job they hated for one they loved
Re: Refresh Leadership, May 6, 2019, in Executive Insight
http://www.refreshleadership.com/index.php/author/refresh-leadership/
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

19. BEGIN YOUR
HERO’S
JOURNEY
TODAY
Stop the Worry, Stress, and Sleepless Nights
Thinking About Millennial Challenges and
the Connected Age Transformation
Start a NGL Initiative for
Millennial Development and Advancement
Ask Me About a NGL Initiative
On-Line Workshop Coming in July/August
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent

20. THANK YOU!
Philip Zimmerman, PE, PCC
President, Engineering Leadership
ZIMMERMAN Coaching Group
Unleash the Millennials
and Save the World
HOPE TO SEE
YOU IN
EXHIBIT AREA
TODAY
Align – Develop – Advance
Millennial Talent