A friend and I have an ongoing discussion about millennials and their role in church leadership. As a group, millennials are parodied , maligned, and caricatured as entitled, self-centered, and clueless. The truth is more complex. The millennial generation (ages approximately 23 to 30) are in our organizations now. Leaders have a choice. They can work with millennials, harness their potential, and equip them for the future or they can miss an opportunity for organizational innovation and growth. In a Leadership Network article , Eric Swanson pointed out, “Millennials don’t want to work for you; they want to work with you.” The millennial mindset is that of the journeyman worker--here today and gone tomorrow. In many ways, this is understandable. They have watched their parents and older siblings lose their jobs even when they have been with organizations for years and have done good work. So how does a ...
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