5 Ways To Offer Career Development That Millennials Really Value

It’s hardly surprising that 90% of executives believe that learning and development is a top priority¹ when a whopping 87% of Millennials are telling us that development is important to their job.²

But, equipping people with the skills to do their current job is not enough. Millennials in today’s organisations are looking for career development too, so organisations must also be ready to prepare employees for their next job.  Taking a longer term approach to talent management will be a prudent move for organisations, as according to the 2018 Workplace Learning Report, ‘94% of employees predict that they would stay at a company longer if it invested in their career development’.¹ 

In the same survey, despite a clear demand for career development, employees also insisted that they were held back because of the lack of time to learn, as well as a lack of manager involvement in their learning.

This speaks volumes about long held perceptions of learning at work.  Despite the rapidly changing nature of the workplace, it appears that organisations are still relying heavily on instructor-led training, which seems to be counterintuitive for the modern learner, and largely bypasses the important role of the Manager in the learning process.