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Aleta Norris is a partner and co-founder of Living As A Leader, a national leadership training, coaching and consulting firm. Living As A Leader supports the development of leaders in more than 125 organizations across the country. For several years, Aleta has been researching and speaking about the critical responsibilities organizations and leaders share related to the attraction, retention and engagement of the emerging workforce.

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They’re not lazy: Millennial generation is questioning the rules of the...

Icame across an executive summary recently, published by the Center for Women and Business at Bentley University. The opening paragraph reads, “Challenges lie ahead for companies looking to retain and advance the newest generation of workers, but companies willing to meet those challenges can expect big payoffs in the form of a well-educated, hardworking and loyal workforce.”

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The importance of feedback: Your employees deserve an annual performance review

Have you had a conversation with your employees about 2014? How was the year for you? What went well for you? What did not go as well...

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Fill the pipeline How to prepare your young professionals for leadership

When a leadership position becomes available in your organization, who is commonly promoted? If you guessed a high-performing individual contributor, you're correct. Add to this our awareness that young professionals are interested in promotions sooner than generations before them, you might ask yourself, “How can I help our high-performing young professionals become ready for a role in leadership?”

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Consider redefining your company’s work week

While visiting New Orleans in March to watch the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team play in the Sweet 16, I got involved in a conversation with Katie Leuer, a 25-year old professional who works for Best Buy corporate in Minneapolis. She was in the midst of a four-day trip to cheer on the Badgers. For those of you who follow college basketball, her brother is (soon-to-graduate) Wisconsin Badger forward, Jon Leuer.

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Developing Generation Y

About a year ago, a human resources manager of a large company in Milwaukee made the following statement during a conversation: "Eighty percent of our workforce is poised to retire over the next 15 years. The future of our company will be in the hands of our youngest employees, most of whom are not even here yet.

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Aleta Norris

They’re not lazy: Millennial generation is questioning the rules of the...

The importance of feedback: Your employees deserve an annual performance review

Fill the pipeline How to prepare your young professionals for leadership

Consider redefining your company’s work week

Developing Generation Y

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