50 Today's Veterinary Business Leadership
Here are 12 ideas to motivate
your Gen Y team members. They
apply to receptionists and techni-
cians as well as to doctors.
1
Offer a
Meaningful Vision
The days of "Just be happy you
have a job" are over. Millennials
need a vision. They want to know
their purpose and how that pur-
pose impacts their community.
Your hospital's values, vision and
mission should be clear. You do
have values, a vision statement and
a mission statement, right?
Millennials need to know how
they individually are part of the
mission. They need to feel im-
portant. A 2015 survey conducted
by the Center for Generational
Kinetics found that 60 percent
of millennials chose their career
path mainly because of their life
purpose. So provide them with
opportunities to be part of the
practice and the community.
If you think your 18- to 40-year-old employees — aka millennials, aka Generation Y — are lazy, uncommit-
ted and entitled, then either you hired the wrong recruits or you haven't found the right way to motivate them.
By Phil Zeltzman,
DVM, DACVS, CVJ
Leadership
When managing younger employees, a nontraditional approach may be better.
ways to motivate
millennials