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What Do Millennial and Gen Z Employees Want in the Workplace? Author Jill Schiefelbein chats with Dan Schawbel about research his company has conducted showing commonalities and differences between millennial and Gen Z employees in the workplace

By Jill Schiefelbein

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This video is part of a series brought to you by Entrepreneur's book division, Entrepreneur Press, the publisher of Jill Schiefelbein's book Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, & Manage Your Business.

In this Dynamic Communication interview, author Jill Schiefelbein chats with Dan Schawbel, New York Times bestselling author, serial entrepreneur and Fortune 500 consultant. Schawbel talks about research his company has conducted showing commonalities and differences between millennial and Gen Z employees in the workplace. We'll answer the questions:

  • Why does our communication behavior differ from our communication preferences?
  • How do millennials and Gen Zers want to be trained in organizations?
  • Why are physical spaces for work important?
  • Why do millennials and Gen Zers crave in-person collaboration?

Learn the answer to these questions and more in this video with Schawbel, an entrepreneur, author and researcher.

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Schawbel's interview excerpt is featured in Dynamic Communication: 27 Strategies to Grow, Lead, & Manage Your Business Chapter 23: Feed Me, Seymour!: Delivering Powerful Feedback That Gets Results.

In this 27-video series, the author of Dynamic Communication: Strategies to Grow, Lead, & Manage Your Business, Jill Schiefelbein, interviews stand-out companies and entrepreneurs to bring you great bites of information to help improve your communication and drive results. You can access 12-plus hours of content -- the full interviews for each of these 27 brilliant minds -- by purchasing Dynamic Communication: Strategies to Grow, Lead, & Manage Your Business and accessing the book's bonus site.

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Jill Schiefelbein

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Professional Speaker and Business Communication Expert

Jill Schiefelbein is a former professor, professional speaker, and business communication expert. From analyzing documents obtained from military raids of terrorist camps to dissect jihadi communication strategies, building an online education office serving more than 60,000 students, to her own award-winning entrepreneurial ventures, Schiefelbein loves a strategic challenge. Her business, The Dynamic Communicator, creates and executes communication strategies that help companies solve problems, retain talent and produce revenue. Pre-order her new book Dynamic Communication (Entrepreneur Press, March 2017) today.

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