learn today. lead tomorrow. home about us organizations individuals pressroom contact WorkMatters < PREVIOUS PAGE A perfect storm is brewing in the American workplace. The Challenge of Youth Young adults enter today’s working world without the professional skills, attitudes, and expectations they need to be successful in most business settings. And, they are required to work closely with three other generations, all whom possess very different perspectives about work and its requirements. Additionally, most organizations lack the in-house resources and structure to train and mentor their young talent on basic professional skills. Careerstone Can Help Our customized talent development workshop—WorkMatters—serves to transition unseasoned talent into successful young professionals. We can get your youngest employees quickly up and running and performing like seasoned professionals. We provide a dynamic and cost effective solution to bridge your “generation gap” and speed up the integration of young employees. We have the conversations so you don’t have to. We understand that your managers are busy and that these conversations can be time-consuming, frustrating and downright puzzling. We’ve seen managers go to great lengths to avoid these conversations and we’ve seen the troublesome results of that avoidance. We will have these conversations for you. In fact, we enjoy these conversations—and we’re good at them. We excel at imparting important information in a way that a young audience can hear it and act upon it. WorkMatters provides the new generation with the ability to: • Calibrate their personal expectations to organizational realities • Align their career goals to your organizational goals • Communicate professionally and effectively • Dress and behave appropriately for your organizational image • Align their intentions and their impact in workplace behaviors • Set realistic goals and work towards them • Avoid certain behaviors that will derail their success in your organization • Practice effective engagement skills for organizational success • Use an Individual Development Plan to identify strengths as well as areas for further training and development • Understand and respect generational differences and the clash points between them Organizational benefits of the WorkMatters program: • A young workforce that can “hit the ground running” • Reduced tensions and misunderstandings between generations • Increased productivity and accelerated development for young talent • Increased loyalty and retention as young talent feels mentored and invested in • Higher morale as younger employees understand their development path • Development of management strategies and solutions to motivate and retain Generation Y • Alignment of expectations, skills and organizational needs between employee and employer Protect your Recruitment Investment + Increase Retention Retaining and developing young talent is critical to an organization’s survival and growth. For most organizations recruiting the right people is costly, competitive, and time-consuming. Effective retention and development strategies for promising young talent could make the difference between organizational growth and organizational stagnation. Study after study shows that professional development opportunities and mentoring greatly increases the loyalty of the younger generations. Investing in these young recruits is a smart business decision that will increase productivity and promote retention. Our Methodology Careerstone works closely with our clients to deliver powerful, effective and flexible professional development training that matches our client’s needs. We design workshop curriculum to your organizational goals. We ensure our trainings are aligned to your organizational success factors: • Every workshop is customized to meet our client’s unique needs • Programs are designed to create success in your organization • Each workshop seeks to align participants with organization goals Call or email us today to get started: info@careerstonegroup.com 202-595-1328 © 2007-08 Careerstone Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.