Unmasking Your Leadership Potential:
Mentor a Millennial
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The generations that follow are the future of leadership. We as leaders have the obligation to mentor, train, and be an example to them, to stretch ourselves in our “comfluential™ leadership” skills – the best of our masculine and feminine qualities – to create change and to leave a legacy of sustainable success for our youth to build on.
I am a Baby Boomer; I have seen a lot of change in this world, and we have created some wonderful things as well as handing down some very challenging problems. Millennials are in their 20s now and are, as Sheryl Chamberlain, writing for Forbes.com, says, “the first generation to be less well-off than their parents and facing obstacles such as limited job opportunities, soaring costs of living and student debt… Millennials seem to have the odds stacked against them.” They are living in the midst of the social upheaval of norms and injustice. Healthcare and even a healthy planet are not assured for this young generation. And change continues at a dizzying pace.
Millennials need our support!
We as leaders need to bring in the influential side (feminine qualities) of leadership, especially empathy and compassion,
and share it with this generation. There are myriad ways to do this in whatever walk of life we are taking leadership roles: military, corporate, nonprofit, community, education, and family. Here are just a few:
1. Model and teach leadership, not the traditional model that commands rather than collaborates but to introduce the qualities of influence, vision, empathy, creativity (the feminine side of leadership) as well as the masculine (command, analysis, action). We must begin to teach it not only in corporate training but at all levels of schooling, elementary through advanced degrees.
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