Next generation workforce, is a provoking force whose learning habits, characteristics, styles and expectations can guide innovation in corporate training.

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3. Preparing for the Next Generation Workforce
There is a push towards the integration of technology in
training environments to enhance the learning experience,
but no set limit, no defined structure, no curated approach
that tells us how far we can go, or how creative we can get
when leveraging technology for training.

4. The tech savvy, next generation
workforce, is a provoking force whose
learning habits, characteristics, styles
and expectations can guide
innovation in corporate training.

5. Millennials are growing up using technology and social media
applications at home and at school, on their free time and
during training time, on planes and in their cars.
Their habits, expectations, and styles are much different from
those of previous generations.

6. As millennials join the workforce, the concept of training will
change because millennials are not the traditional learner.
Instead of reacting to the new demands of millennials as they
enter the workforce, what if we responded by anticipating the
new learning styles that will soon rule the L&D community?

7. Who Are Millennials?

8. Steven Covey, author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,
wrote that highly successful people “Seek first to understand,
then to be understood”.
Before expecting millennials to go through traditional corporate
training and come out effective contributors in the workplace,
we might benefit from understanding their characteristics,
learning styles and preferred learning environment.

9. Millennials are experiential and
exploratory learners
I

10. Millennials are comfortable collaborating
with peers and working in teams
II

11. Millennials use technology and social
media to facilitate their experiences
III

12. Millennials are multimedia literate
IV

13. Millennials favor social, interactive, and
participatory learning environments
V

14. Millennials are more comfortable in
image-rich environments than with text
VI

15. Millennials are expert multi-taskers
VII

16. Millennials seek immediate feedback
VIII

17. Social media has promoted a learning environment
where new learning styles are being developed.
The characteristics of millennials and their ideas of
a comfortable learning environment can be used
to enhance and innovate the structure of
corporate training.

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19. Preparing for the Next
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