
We are excited to bring together the brightest minds on one of the most talked about challenges in the manufacturing and skilled trades industries: retaining top young talent. This summit is designed to give owners, leaders, and managers in manufacturing and skilled trades the tools and insight to better understand, communicate with, and retain the youngest generation at work. It also won't be a bore. Attendees will laugh, learn, and walk away armed to drive real change. BridgeWorks is the company behind the definitive book on managing Millennials and has applied their generational insights to help organizations recruit and retain across generations for over twenty years.
Since 2010, skilled trades have been the most difficult jobs to fill. Over the next decade, there will be 3.4 million manufacturing jobs created—of which an estimated 2 million will go unfilled. The number of job openings combined with the lack of available labor supply means that existing workers have the freedom to hop from job to job, leaving managers and leaders scratching their heads and asking, “Once we finally get these young workers in the door, what can we do to keep them from walking out?”
• Hannah Ubl, generational expert, BridgeWorks Principal, and leader of the firms' Trades Gap business unit
• Keynote presentation from Phil Gwoke, one of the leading generational experts in the Midwest
• Panel of leaders who have found the secret sauce to engaging Millennials at work
• Exclusive access to the latest insights about how to recruit Millennials
• Learn who the generations are in today's work environment and why they behave the way they do
• Apply generational insights to daily management and leadership challenges
• Walk away with Millennial retention tactics that work
• Connect with Managers and leaders in manufacturing and skilled trades
• Help sponsor the next generation of skilled labor through the BridgeWorks Trades Scholar program
• Network with businesses who are trying to solve a shared industry challenge
For twenty years, BridgeWorks has been dedicated solely to the study of generational differences. They wrote the go-to book on next generation management, Managing Millennials For Dummies (Wiley Publishers, 2017), and recently published results on a comprehensive national survey of the next generations to hit the workforce—3G: Connecting with Three Young Segments in the Workplace. For decades, they’ve applied their generational insights to solve the workplace’s top people challenges through structured solutions, keynotes and workshops, and customized consulting projects. Within the firm’s Trades Gap initiative, the Summit is one of BridgeWorks’ most important solutions designed to help their manufacturing and trades clients address the growing shortage of skilled workers.
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Contact Sam Heyne at heyne@generations.com with any questions, or call 952-797-9700