Next week, we will swear in a new class of lawyers in Illinois. Many of these new lawyers will be millennials – young people born between 1980 and 2000 – who have had a tremendous impact on the legal workplace. We at the Commission on Professionalism have written a number of articles on workplace […]
[…] working at the Commission on Professionalism, and speaking around the state and country, absolutely nothing has gotten my audience as engaged (read: riled up) as talking about millennials in the workplace. As regular readers of our blog, and students of our online course on intergenerational communication, know, I talk and write a lot about millennials […]
[…] of the organizations in attendance. And while they recruit volunteers from all walks of life, much of the discussion focused on recruiting one segment in particular, the millennials. Here’s the simple question – how do we encourage the youngest generation working in the office, to do more giving outside the office? Millennial Giving Needs […]
[…] anticipated. By 67 and 68 years old, only one in three Boomers was still employed. So where does that leave the generations behind them, in particular the Millennials? Leadership Reality In the not too distant past, Boomer leaders would have continued the trends of their predecessors – retiring by 65 and handing over the […]
Recently, we swore in a new class of lawyers in Illinois. Many of these new lawyers were Millennials — people born between 1980 and 2000 — who have had a tremendous effect on the legal workplace. A recent American Lawyer article on millennials at large law firms pointed out the number of firms recognizing […]
[…] wrong with your generation?” Welcome to the beginning of my Millennial journey. Talking About the Four Generations In the Workplace Over the past three years, I’ve written about Millennials, Xers, Boomers and Traditionalists in the legal workplace. I’ve talked about technology, leadership, and even fashion. I’ve explained how Millennials can succeed in the workplace, and why Boomers need to be recognized […]
[…] professionalism differences is understanding why different generations approach professionalism the way they do. Four Generations In The Workplace Right now, the youngest people in the workplace are Millennials (born 1981-2000). The oldest are Traditionalists (1925-1945). Between them we have Baby Boomers (1946-1964) and Generation X (1965-1980). All of the people in these age cohorts […]
[…] young women. But many of them are simply not interested in making the same career and life choices that we made. There is some truth to that. Millennials Opt for Life Priority As with most things generational, this is often framed as a workplace conflict between baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, and […]
What will the future workplace look like? We all know that Millennials believe in flexible working hours and working from home. Millennials do not see work and life as two opposing weights that need to be balanced, but rather as two puzzle pieces that need to fit. These Millennials are now the largest generation […]
For the past year, I have been writing about the different generations in the workplace. I’ve talked about Millennials, and Baby Boomers, and Millennials again, and, let’s not forget them Gen Xers. But as the Commission approaches a massive roll-out of an exciting new multi-generational project (stay tuned!), I would be bereft if I left […]
Last year, I wrote an article offering professionalism tips to Millennial attorneys. The feedback was terrific, but some of the responses pointed out that Millennials aren’t always first or second year attorneys. Instead many, like myself, have been practicing for almost 10 years. What they need now isn’t advice on how to start out. […]
Last month, I spoke about increasing diversity and inclusion at the NALP Annual Education conference. My co-presenters and I discussed recruiting and retaining millennials of color. The hypothetical scenario we used was Marcus, a third year black law student, and Jim, the white male managing partner at a fictional international law firm called Walker Cross. After […]
